Managing Requirements: For an Integrated Approach from System Engineering to Project Management

Michel Malbert (1) , Daniel Estève (2) , Claude Baron (3, 4) , Philippe Esteban (3, 4) , Rui Xue (4, 3)

1 Sigma Plus
2 IRFM - Institut de Recherche sur la Fusion par confinement Magnétique
3 Department of Materials Science and Engineering [Colombus]
4 LAAS-ISI - Équipe Ingénierie Système et Intégration

This paper puts forward several evolutions in methodological approaches to « project management». Firstly, it aims to bring closer the founding models of different engineering approachesincluding systems engineering and project management recommendations to allow fora greater continuity and enhanced management coherence,from beginning to end of the project. It focuses on operating a generic process, called DECWAYS, based on handling management requirements:(1)analyze the requirements to arrive at a complete inventory of the final product ;(2)associate with each one of these requirements ,an « indicator » setting a target objective for completion, supplemented by a risk function detailing the risk at hand based on the deviation relative to this target objective; (3)share and allocate the responsibility for requirements follow-up between the project team leaders; (4) organize and coordinate the follow up of these indicators throughout the product development as proof of a good work management and,(5) finally, validate the total completion of the target objectivesthrough the final prediction/completion conformity of these indicators. Based on this, several operational recommendations are explained and the practicality of DECWAYS embodying these principles is demonstrated using an experimental example for the design/planning of an electronic key.

Mots clés: Collaborative Engineering; System Engineering; Project Management

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Système d'exploitation [cs.OS]

Michel Malbert, Daniel Estève, Claude Baron, Philippe Esteban, Rui Xue. Managing Requirements: For an Integrated Approach from System Engineering to Project Management. IFIP International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS), Sep 2014, Ajaccio, France. pp.142-149, ⟨10.1007/978-3-662-44739-0_18⟩. ⟨hal-01284568⟩