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