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5.6.2 User Requirements for a Technical Risk Assessment Technique
Author(s) -
Bijl Maarten G.H.,
Hamann Robbert J.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2004.tb00560.x
Subject(s) - risk analysis (engineering) , set (abstract data type) , computer science , risk assessment , risk management , space (punctuation) , construct (python library) , user requirements document , it risk management , knowledge management , software engineering , computer security , business , finance , programming language , operating system
This paper addresses the results of a study identifying the user requirements for a technical risk assessment technique, specifically for use by small to medium sized enterprises active in space engineering. By means of a questionnaire Systems Engineers and Project Managers of four companies where interviewed in order to collect data on the companies' business, the experience of the personnel with risk management, constraints on the technique's implementation and the content of the technique. Major result of the study is that the view on risk and the factors composing it varies widely and that a technique or tool will likely not be applied if it does not agree with the view of the assessor. As a consequence a technique must enable the modelling of the assessor's perception of the structure of the risk (that is: the factors determining the probability of occurrence of a risk and their mutual interaction). A basic set of risk models (Risk Spaces) is proposed and the constraints on technique and tool are summarized. The paper presents the main elements of the User Requirements for a technical risk assessment technique for the specific target group: they address both a technique and tool to construct the risk model (Model Tool Kit) and the risk assessment technique and tool itself.