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2.1.2 Milestone Driven Systems Engineering Methods
Author(s) -
Wells Brian H.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2007.tb02873.x
Subject(s) - milestone , systems engineering , schedule , engineering management , system of systems engineering , engineering , systems design , computer science , software engineering , operating system , archaeology , history
Methods are presented that have been used successfully on large programs including a $3B development program that reached the System Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR) on or ahead of schedule. These methods link the non‐systems engineering activities into the system engineering processes and provides an effective means of communication and coordination between the systems engineers and design engineers to reduce the risk of achieving each milestone successfully. These methods augment the established systems engineering processes for technical reviews and use the milestone events as the impetus to drive the team and the program forward.