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Benchmark your (Systems) Engineering Capability

Take a moment to reflect on your current capabilities and identify any areas that may present opportunities for improvement.

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Answer 'Yes' or 'No' to the following questions:

Can you define the four major work products of a system requirements analysis, and the use to which you would put each of them? *

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Can you conduct a states-and-modes analysis to accurately and efficiently define the required big-picture behaviour of a product using the concepts and language of states and modes? *

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Can you build a logically sound system effectiveness model, knowing why and how to avoid simply weighting MOEs/Criteria? *

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Can you explain the criteria for an item being simultaneously in the problem and solution domains, and the engineering significance of this relationship? *

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Can you explain, in the functional form of model-based design, why modeling should first focus on control flow? *

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Can you explain the design consequences, in the functional form of model-based design, of allocation of functions to solution elements without having first incorporated item flow in the functional design? *

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Can you identify at least five practical approaches to working successfully at a greater average level of average design complexity, thereby reducing overall development cost and risk? *

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Can you conduct a trade-off study, factoring in uncertainty, multiple uses, multiple stakeholders and any possibility of not meeting requirements? *

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Can you consistently write great requirements on subsystems using a fail-safe 9-element requirements pattern? *

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Can you explain why a Project/Work Breakdown Structure, to be effective as a framework for costing, scheduling, definition, assignment of responsibility, risk analysis, measurement, reporting and organizational design, must be product-oriented, and how to build the structure to realize these benefits? *

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