Essentials of Project and Systems Engineering Management

Content: Essentials of project and systems engineering management
 contents
 preface
 part i: overview
 1: systems, projects, and management
 1.1 introduction
 1.2 systems and projects
 1.3 problems in managing engineering projects
 1.4 the systems approach
 1.5 the project organization
 1.6 organizational environments and factors
 1.7 large-scale organization and management issues
 questions/exercises
 references
 2: overview of essentials
 2.1 introduction
 2.2 project management essentials
 2.3 systems engineering process and management essentials
 2.4 historical overview of acquisition notions. 2.5 selected standardsquestions/exercises
 references
 part ii: project management
 3: the project plan
 3.1 introduction
 3.2 needs, goals, objectives, and requirements
 3.3 task statements, statement of work (sow), and work breakdown structure (wbs)
 3.4 technical approach
 3.5 schedule
 3.6 organization, staffing, and task responsibility matrix (trm)
 3.7 budget
 3.8 risk analysis
 3.9 the proposal
 3.10 semp and sep
 questions/exercises
 references
 4: schedule, cost, and situation analysis
 4.1 introduction
 4.2 schedule analysis and monitoring
 4.3 cost analysis and monitoring. 4.4 situation analysis (sa)questions/exercises
 references
 5: the project manager and leadership
 5.1 introduction
 5.2 project manager attributes
 5.3 self-evaluation
 5.4 interactions with your supervisor
 5.5 customer interaction
 5.6 leadership
 questions/exercises
 references
 6: team building and team interactions
 6.1 introduction
 6.2 communications
 6.3 building the project team
 6.4 team busters
 6.5 conflict management
 6.6 meetings
 6.7 presentations
 6.8 proposals
 6.9 a note on motivation and incentives
 6.10 another team-related perspective
 6.11 group processes. Questions/exercisesreferences
 part iii: systems engineering and management
 7: the thirty elements of systems engineering
 7.1 overview of the systems approach and engineering process
 7.2 two systems engineering perspectives
 7.3 the thirty elements of systems engineering
 7.4 the importance of domain knowledge in systems engineering
 questions/exercises
 references
 8: requirements analysis and allocation
 8.1 introduction
 8.2 department of defense (dod) perspectiv
 8.3 a national aeronautics and space administration (nasa) perspective
 8.4 the organization of requirements statements. 8.5 specific requirements statements8.6 essential steps of requirements analysis
 8.7 derived and allocated requirements
 8.8 other requirements issues
 questions/exercises
 references
 9: systems architecting: principles
 9.1 introduction
 9.2 a view of systems architecting
 9.3 a national aeronautics and space administration (nasa) perspective
 9.4 architecture descriptions
 9.5 essential steps of system architecting
 9.6 the 95% solution
 9.7 trade-offs and sensitivity analyses
 9.8 modeling and simulation
 9.9 other architectures and tools
 9.10 summary
 questions/exercises
 references.