System Engineering Deployment shows you how to make systems development work for your organization. It focuses on the deployment of the system engineering process that will propel your organization to excellence. The strategies covered will help organizations already using a systems approach fine tune their systems as well as giving organizations the tools to develop systems of their own. Topics include: enterprise knowledge organizational structure for work the jog system engineering method task cost and schedule estimating The author focuses on the development of a quality systems approach into programs that can be used to develop an integrated master plan and schedules. The book provides the optimum marriage between specific program planning and a company's generic identity. With System Engineering Deployment you can design an effective systems approach to perfection.

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION Where Are We Going? System Defined Systems Beget Systems Creative vs. Canned Responses The Current Plateau New vs. Modified The Book THE HUMAN FOUNDATION FOR SYSTEM ENGINEERING The Expanding Knowledge Base and its Effects Knowledge Dimensions Knowledge Bond Knowledge and its Exchange Individual vs. Group Work Communication Facilitation and Facilitization The Enterprise Knowledge Base ENTERPRISE KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS AND THE FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION The Knowledge Transform Generic Knowledge Needs Product Line Base The Customer Base Organizing Possibilities Program Implementation through Teams Building Modes ENTERPRISE GENERIC PROCESS DEFINITION AND FUNCTIONAL ALLOCATION The Ultimate Enterprise Functionality First-Tier Functionality Expansion The Marriage of Enterprise and System Functionality Functionality Allocation Lower-Tier Development Functionality Formal Allocation of Functionality to the Functional Department Structure FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION CHARTERS AND RELATIONS Functional Department Formation First-Tier Functional Departments Expansion of the Functional Organizational Hierarchy and Charter Development The Popular Knowledge Map Program Knowledge Interfaces Process Integration GENERIC PRACTICES DOCUMENTATION Enterprise Generic Documentation Tree Practices Documentation Content and Responsibility System Engineering Manual External Standards Mapping The Discipline for Process Compliance Practices Deployment to Programs Process Quality Assurance on Programs Functional Metrics Process Improvement ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE FOR WORK Overview The Two Axes Team Structures Team Formation and Staffing on Programs IPT Work PIT Activity The PIT-IPT Team Matrix PROGRAM COMMUNICATIONS Communication Dichotomy The Critical Nature of Communications A Common Database War Room Or Wall Virtual Teams in Your Future PRODUCT SYSTEM DEFINITION System Development Process Overview System Requirements Analysis Architecture Syntheses A General Theory of Structured Analysis INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT IN A NEW WORLD Interface Fundamentals Interface Depiction Terminal Responsibility Interface Documentation Traditional Management of Interface Development Management of Interfaces Within the Context of Ownership Dynamics International Effects Summary GENERIC PROGRAM PROCESS DEVELOPMENT Aggregate Planning Goals General Planning Data Structure Program Planning Structure Making the Transform Between Generic and Program Models PROGRAM WORK DEFINITION AND INTEGRATION USING THE USAF INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM The Ultimate Requirement and Program Beginnings Program Plan Tree Know Thyself Though Generic Program Planning Data Integrated Management System Overview Generating the Six Primary Documents Work Responsibility Who Plans the Program? A Generic SEM/SEMP for You Rapid Identity Documentation PROGRAM WORK DEFINITION AND INTEGRATION USING THE JOG SYSTEM ENGINEERING METHOD Goals Again Functional Structures Program Structures Mapping Generic Identity to Program Structures Functional Department Mapping The Apparent Disappearance of the SOW Integration of Inputs into the IMP Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) TASK COST AND SCHEDULE ESTIMATING The Three Principal Program Planning Parameters Task Data Sheets Estimate Improvement How-To Knowledge Access Knowledge Depth Differences Sources How-To Knowledge Dictionary SYSTEM ENGINEERING TRAINING PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT Training Program Overview Process Evaluation and Training Prioritization The Low-Cost Lunch-Time Seminar Local University Cooperation Purchase of A Tailored Commercial Certificate Program A System Engineering Help Window SYSTEM ENGINEERING ASSESSMENT AND IMPROVEMENT Is A Static Identity Adequate? Procedures Media Lessons Learned and Continuous Improvement Performance Measurement Systems Formal Post Mortem Two-Dimensional Process Audit External Maturity Models MOTIVATION OF THE SYSTEMS APPROACH The Logic is Not Accepted Everywhere The Causes of Poor System Engineering Performance on Programs Changing Manager Attitudes Customer Demand for Improvement Moving the Top Person's Attitude The Workers Need for Motivation Closing Appendix A, Enterprise Process Definition Appendix B, Enterprise Organizational Structure Appendix C, Enterprise System Engineering Practices Manual Index