CONCEIVING AND ENGINEERING SYSTEMS
Setting System Goals and Requirements
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Market needs and opportunities
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Customer needs
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Opportunities which derive from new technology or latent needs
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Factors that set the context of the requirements
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Enterprise goals, strategies, capabilities and alliances
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Competitors and benchmarking information
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Ethical, social, environmental, legal and regulatory influences
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The probability of change in the factors that influence the system, its goals and resources available
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System goals and requirements
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The language/format of goals and requirements
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Initial target goals (based on needs, opportunities and other influences)
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System performance metrics
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Requirement completeness and consistency
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Defining Function, Concept and Architecture
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Necessary system functions (and behavioral specifications)
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System concepts
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The appropriate level of technology
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Trade-offs among and recombination of concepts
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High level architectural form and structure
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The decomposition of form into elements, assignment of function to elements, and definition of interfaces
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Modeling of System and Ensuring Goals Can Be Met
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Appropriate models of technical performance
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The concept of implementation and operations
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Life cycle value and costs (design, implementation, operations, opportunity, etc.)
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Trade-offs among various goals, function, concept and structure and iteration until convergence
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Development Project Management
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Project control for cost, performance, and schedule
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Appropriate transition points and reviews
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Configuration management and documentation
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Performance compared to baseline
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Earned value recognition
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The estimation and allocation of resources
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Risks and alternatives
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Possible development process improvements
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