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Using Web‐Based Tools for Providing Program Management Information
Author(s) -
Manuel Gregory C.,
Sunday David A.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1999.tb00334.x
Subject(s) - intranet , the internet , computer science , world wide web , information system , reading (process) , engineering management , engineering , electrical engineering , law , political science
This paper discusses the development and use of web‐based tools to communicate real‐time, critical Program‐level information throughout an enterprise network of several hundred managers, engineers, and other professionals. The design and development of tools will be briefly described, as well as the integration and current application of the tools. Finally, a vision for planned future enhancements will be discussed The Internet has increasingly become the route of choice on the information highway. For the few reading this who are not aware of the Internet (where have you been for the past ten years?!?!), it is a system by which computers are electronically linked. The Internet is used to transmit information among widely‐dispursed, even worldwide, computers without regard to platform type. An Intranet is a ‘subset’ of the internet when restricted to operations within a company or enterprise network. The environment described within this paper is that of an Intranet. At the Aircraft Combat Systems Business of the Integrated Systems and Aerostructures Sector of Northrop Grumman, the development and use of intranets has been expanding dramatically. The number of websites and pages has proliferated with no signs of slowing in the near future. There have been debates and discussions in this forum and others regarding the inclusion of Program Management (or Program Management tools) in the broad discipline of Systems Engineering. Within our enterprise element, however, this discussion has been tabled (for now, at least). The SE organization resides within the Program Management organization, and advancement of tools development for SE and for Program Management is being directed, deployed and managed by that organization.