Systems Engineering FAQ
- Answers by Robert Halligan
http://www.ppi-int.com/systems-engineering/systems-engineering-faq.php
- Q. What is Systems Engineering?
- Q. How do Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprirse Resource Planning relate to one another, and to Systems Engineering Management?
- Q. Can you have multiple parent requirements to a single child requirement?
- Q. What is the relationship of Cognitive Systems Engineering to Systems Engineering?
- Q. Do you have any comments on the book "Managing Complex Technical Projects"?
- Q. What is the relationship between a System Requirements Specification, an Operational Concept Description, and a System/Subsystem Design Description?
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- Q. What are some pointers in managing technical projects for success?
- Q. Do you have any advice on the use of ISO/IEC 15288 (IEEE Std 15288-2008), Second Edition 2008-02-01, Systems and software engineering - System Life Cycle Processes?
- Q. What is the significance of different types of requirements such as states and modes, functional, performance, external interface, environmental, resource, physical, other qualities and design?
- Q. Your System Requirements Specification and Software Requirements Specification templates start off in a "4. Requirements" section with "4.1 Identification of External Interfaces", and "4.2 Identification of States and Modes". Why is that?
- Q. What are Interface Requirements Specifications, Interface Design Descriptions, Interface Control Documents, and how do they relate?
- Q. Are software tools used in the systems engineering course?
- Q. Would you agree that requirements engineering is a wicked problem as defined in Wikipedia?
- Q. How do all these terms relating to requirements figure?
- Q. What are some of the important terms relating to problem definition and stakeholder satisfaction?
- Q. What are the various types of interface information used in systems and software engineering, and how do these types of information relate to one another?
- Q. Do you have any application advice on ECSS-E-ST-10C, 6 March 2009, titled “Space engineering – System engineering general requirements”, from the European Space Agency?
- Q. How are verification and validation (V&V) covered in the systems engineering 5-day course
- Q. What are the traceability relationships between SSS/SSDD/SRS?
- Q. How can quality system breakdown structures be produced?
- Q. What is the difference between requirements and specifications?
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