Integrated Engineering Management

It used to be that we bought and built standalone information systems to solve business problems and to fulfill mission needs. No longer. In today’s network-centric environment, both people and systems must communicate and collaborate seamlessly between operating units, businesses, and agencies — across town and across oceans — to be truly effective.

We call this “interoperability.” To achieve it, your information systems must serve to integrate your production, operations, logistics, and management systems — and those of your suppliers, partners, and customers.

We call this “systems integration.” It is an integral part of our collaborative approach to define, evolve, implement, verify, and deliver balanced information system solutions.

If you are buying or building information systems and infrastructure to leverage your mission-critical products, services and operations, and you’re not sure exactly how they are going to enhance and empower your existing processes and people, let us show you how to ensure that technology serves your needs within your budget — not the other way around.
Capabilities we apply and transfer to your organization:
Integrated Engineering Management
— Project Management and Systems Engineering
  • Integrated project management and engineering process adoption, tailoring, training, and implementation based on the:
    • Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development (CMMI-DEV) Version 1.2 ®
    • INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook®
    • PMI Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)®
  • Project Management Office (PMO) planning, start-up, implementation, training, and continuous process improvement using the
    •  Capability Maturity Model Integration for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ) Version 1.2®
  • Complex Systems Engineering and System-of-Systems Engineering for very large scale military, aerospace, command and control, and process control applications
    • Application of the the Dual Vee Model for large-scale, complex, architecture-based systems-of-systems or the
    • User Requirements and Concept of Operations
    • System requirements definition and decomposition
    • Technical solution development, trade-off analyses, architectural design, systems analysis, and technical evaluation
    • Implementation, integration, and performance verification
    • System requirements and design verification
    • User requirements validation and acceptance testing
  • Object-oriented Model Based Systems Development for Enterprise Information Technology development, modernization, portfolio management, operation, and sustainment
  • IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP)®
  • RUP Systems Engineering (RUP SE 2.0)

Process Improvement

Improving your product development, service, operations, and support processes will improve your business performance, profitability, competitive advantage, and customer satisfaction, but process improvement means different things to different people and their organizations —

What are your business or mission goals?
What results do you expect to achieve?
How would you measure progress?
What will be the impact on your bottom line?
What are the costs associated with ensuring quality?
How long will it take?

If you would like to improve performance, predictability, and customer satisfaction, consider taking a look at your organization’s actual product and service development, delivery, and support capability and practices:

  • Our systematic approach to improving your technology product development capability starts with an initial benchmark "gap analysis" against the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model Integration® (CMMI). You get immediate, useful insight and documented feedback.

  • Using the results of the assessment, we help you to formulate an action plan tailored to your business goals, operating environment, available resources, and most critical needs.

  • We teach you to apply our Rapid Change Attainment Method to build upon your existing documented processes or automated development tools you may be using such as the IBM Rational Enterprise Suite® and the Rational Unified Process (RUP)® or the RUP SE 2.0® extension.
  • We show you how to apply our Accelerated Process Definition Process and templates to enable the rapid development of new processes for active piloting, refinement, and rollout across your organization in a systematic, planned, minimally disruptive manner.
  • We help you to define, design, and populate an automated Process  Asset Library (PAL) structured according to your organizational life cycle model and variants to contain the relevant policies, processes, procedures, job aids, examples of good practice, and process performance measurement data and analytical results.

  • Our experienced managers, engineers, and other professionals specialize in process engineering, appraisals (formal and informal), organizational capability development, productivity tools, and training — all in the real world of deadlines and constraints.

Capabilities we apply and transfer to your organization:

  • Standard Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)® Appraisal Method (SCAMPI) Appraisals and Team Training

  • SEI-Authorized Introduction to CMMI® Training

  • SEI-Authorized Introduction to People CMM® Training

  • Process improvement program planning, management, and process engineering using our Rapid Change Attainment Method or the SEI's IDEAL® Technology Transition Model 

  • Process Asset Library (PAL) to organize, contain, control, and distribute your relevant policies, life cycle models, processes, procedures, job aids, examples of good practice, process performance measurement data and analytical reports
Organizational Performance Enhancement

Adopting new tools, processes, and organizational structures involves more than just a management announcement. New tools change the processes you and your people use to perform your mission and operational functions — whether you recognize the inherent change or not. They may change your interaction with other units, suppliers, and customers, too.

Many product development organizations — software development teams, in particular — have tried to adopt tools to solve productivity, communication, and defect control problems. Typically, they have a difficult time putting these tools into actual use, and spreading and sustaining their use. The same issues arise in the implementation of new or revised processes and procedures, in re-organizations, mergers, and acquisitions.

The solution is to recognize the social implications of change — to plan for them, manage the outcome, and follow through — right from the start.

Let our experienced Organizational Change Management and Human Resource Development professionals, who specialize in performance improvement using approaches like Change Delivery's Rapid Change Attainment Technology (RCAT) or the SEI's People CMM® and the IDEAL® Technology Transition Model, assist you and your organization to adopt new methods, tools, tool suites — and the associated process changes — in an orderly, effective manner.

Specialized Organizational Change Management Capabilities:
  • Vision, mission, goals, and objectives definition
  • Strategic planning
  • Organizational design, redesign, and transition
  • Leadership skills development
  • Management skills development
  • Team building, coaching, and mentoring
  • Training program planning and management
  • Training curriculum and instructional materials development
  • Professional development
If you are in a labor-intensive business or you consider your people to be your greatest asset, then the SEI's People CMM® is the capability maturity model you and your organization need to adopt to guide your efforts to attract, retain and invest most effectively in the care and development of your most precious resource — knowledgeable, skilled, trained, and capable people — in the most orderly, cost effective manner possible.

If your organization has already achieved a high level of maturity in its managerial and technical processes, then the People CMM® is the logical next step on your continuing journey to ever higher performance. It will help you with the areas that the other models don't — your people.
Technical Oversight and Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V)

Our experienced project managers, engineers, and technical support professionals specialize in every phase and discipline of project management and system and software engineering — through real world experience gained from long years of systems acquisition, development, integration, deployment, operations, support and sustainment in the aerospace industry.

Specialized Technical Support Capabilities:

  • Technical oversight in support of system acquisition program management offices, both government and commercial
  • Independent review, evaluation, recommendations, modeling, simulation, and testing of contractor or vendor-developed plans, processes, specifications, systems, subsystems, components, documentation, and related work products
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