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6.4.1 Tailoring the Systems Engineering Life Cycles: Goal Oriented Engineering Phasing
Author(s) -
Bosch ir. R.M.,
Brouwer ir. P.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2011.tb01239.x
Subject(s) - procurement , engineering design process , process (computing) , matching (statistics) , systems engineering , engineering , requirements engineering , engineering management , process management , computer science , business , mechanical engineering , statistics , mathematics , software , marketing , programming language , operating system
All too often engineering products are created ‘because we always do so’. Projects phases are introduced without questioning the utility, designs are being detailed without connecting to the decision process, or the preliminary research is badly matching the designers' needs. So, a big part of the systems engineers role is not only the engineering itself, but matching the engineering process with the project at hand and the goals that must be fulfilled at each design stage. In this paper, we will discuss the tailoring of the typical System Engineering life cycle and project stages onto the life cycle processes of a project at ProRail, the Dutch railway infrastructure provider. ProRail is a major government procurement organization, with revenues of over € 2,000,000,000. Typical projects range from € 100,000 to over € 100,000,000. ProRail has a large legacy system deployed, dating back over 150 years to the first railways in The Netherlands.