In Chapter 5 our catalog of project management decisions was described at the top level. The entire catalog is reproduced here for your reference.* The following tables appear in this appendix:
Table B-1: Operational System Decisions—Needs Analysis
Table B-2: Operational System Decisions—System Analysis and Concept Design
Table B-3: Product System Decisions—Product System, Subsystem, and Component Requirements and Design
Table B-4: Operational System Decisions—Test Planning
Table B-5: Operational System Decisions—Product System, Subsystem, and Component Testing
Table B-6: Operational System Decisions—Life Cycle Planning
Table B-7: Development System Decisions—Management Structure
Table B-8: Development System Decisions—Project Management Planning
Table B-9: Development System Decisions—Development System Construction
Category | Decisions |
Needs Analysis | Problem Definition • What are stakeholder needs? • What is the set of relevant variables and factors? • What is the market assessment strategy? • Set of mission requirements? • What is the consumer vision? • What is the purpose (expectation) of the system? • What is the operating environment definition? Problem Validation • What is the acceptable level of consistency between stakeholder needs and the mission requirement? |
Category | Decisions |
Product System Analysis and Concept Design | Concept Definition • Set of operational scenarios • What is the user concept of operation? • What is the system concept of operation? • What is the system employment definition? • What is the set of generic concepts? • What is the set of feasible concepts that meet stakeholder need, cost, schedule and initial performance? • What are the risks? • What is the set of prototyping requirements? • What is the set of technology requirements? • What is the product system boundary? • What are the product system constraints? • What is the product definition? • What is the initial product design? Concept Evaluation • What is the methodology for determining concept and technical feasibility? • What are the evaluative tools, methods, and objectives for evaluating concept design alternatives? • What is the set of trade-off objectives required to satisfy the problem definition and cost requirements? Concept Validation • What is the set of concept validation criteria? • What is the concept validation methodology? • What are the validation tools for concept designs, e.g., modeling and simulation? |
Category | Decisions |
Test Planning | Product System, Subsystem, and Component • What is the strategy for proving the product will meet its key performance targets and perform its intended functions? • What is the strategy for prototyping methods and technologies? • What will the project test strategy include? • Set of testing purposes? • Testing strategy for new technologies? • Operational test environment and test conditions? • Required risk scenarios and their test requirements? • Set of test constraints? • Data collection requirements? • Set of metrics to be used and how? • Set of functional testing requirements? • Set of test facility requirements? • Selection of test participants? • Selection of roles/responsibilities for test participants? • Set of test mechanisms? • Amount of testing to be conducted? • Allowable extent of combining design and operational testing? • Stakeholder role during testing? • What to test and how to test as defined by performance indicators? • Test cycle time for product system, subsystem, and components? • What is the risk management plan? |
Category | Decisions |
Product System, Subsystem, and Component Testing | Integration (Product System through Components) What are the assembly process and methodology? What is the set of product system integration test criteria? Verification (Product System through Components) What is the set of product system verification criteria? What are the sets of subsystem verification criteria? What are the sets of component verification criteria? Product Validation What are the aspects of the product system to be validated? What is the set of product system validation benchmarks? What is the set of operational test conditions? What are the stakeholder satisfaction criteria? What validation tools and mechanisms are required? Market Validation What is the market validation strategy? |
Category | Decisions |
Life Cycle Planning | Life Cycle Requirements and Architecture
Manufacturing
Operation, Support, Maintenance, Upgrades
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Category | Decisions |
Management Structure | Project Definition
Success Criteria
Stakeholder System
Project Manager Construction Role Definition
Evaluation
Training
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Category | Decisions |
Development System Construction | Organizational Structure
Role Definition
Makeup
Resources
Validation
Location
Training
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* To download a poster-size document featuring all the tables in one layout, please go to http://www.pmgooddecisions.com/downloads.