What is ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4 - Systems engineering planning about?
ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4,
- Specifies the Technical Management processes from ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 that are required to be implemented for planning a systems engineering project
- Gives guidelines for applying the required processes
- Specifies a required information item, a plan for the technical management and execution of the project that is to be produced through the implementation of the Project Planning process
- Gives guidelines for the format and content of the required information item
- Provides normative definition of the content of the information item that results from the application of these processes to that end.
In ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4 that plan for technical project management is termed the Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP).
Who is ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4 - Systems engineering planning for?
ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4 on systems engineering planning is useful for:
- Those who use or plan to use ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 on projects dealing with man-made systems including software-intensive systems, software products, and services related to those systems and products
- Those who are responsible for the technical management of projects concerned with the engineering of systems
- Those responsible for executing ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 system life cycle processes at a project level
- Organizations and individuals who are subcontracting a project management effort
- Anyone developing engineering management documentation to complete technical planning aspects of their project’s processes
Why should you use ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4 - Systems engineering planning?
ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, Systems and software engineering – System life cycle processes, provides a common process framework covering the life cycle of man-made systems. This life cycle spans the conception of ideas through to the retirement of a system. It provides the processes for acquiring and supplying systems. In addition, this framework provides for the assessment and improvement of the life cycle processes. This common framework improves communication and cooperation among the parties that create, utilize, and manage modern systems in order that they can work in an integrated, coherent fashion. The acquisition or supply of a system is usually done within a project. A project prepares and implements the technical plans and schedules necessary to guide the project toward the accomplishment of its objectives and proper conclusion. Given the project’s authorization and objectives, the project should establish a Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP).
ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4 provides unified and consolidated guidance on the life cycle management of systems and software. Its purpose is to help ensure consistency in system concepts and life cycle concepts, models, stages, processes, process application, key points of view, adaptation, and use in various domains as the two International Standards (and others) are used in combination. It should help a project to design a life cycle model for managing progress on a project.
ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4 also identifies the processes as defined in ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 to perform the necessary project planning activities to accomplish the project's technical effort and to develop the project's SEMP. ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4 is intended to provide guidance for two-party situations and may be equally applied where the two parties are from the same organization. ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4 can also be used by a single party as self-imposed tasks. ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4 can also serve as guidance in multi-party situations, where high risks are inherent in the supply and integration of complex systems, and procurement can involve several suppliers, organizations or parties.
ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4 unifies technical and management requirements and guidance from several of these sources to specify the requirements for the content of a SEMP and to provide a common SEMP format. ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4 focuses on the processes required for successful planning and management of the project’s systems engineering effort. It calls for the development of a SEMP as the key vehicle for representing a project's application of systems life cycle processes. The SEMP is a top-level technical planning document for a project which addresses Technical Management processes established by three principal sources (the project’s contract or agreement, applicable organizational processes, and the systems engineering project team) as necessary to successfully accomplish the systems engineering-related tasks of the project.