Abstract

Bringing ANSI/EIA-632 to Life through ProcessIPPD

Azad M. Madni, Ph.D.
Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc.

William L. 'Mac' McCoy
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren

Abstract

The ANSI/EIA-632 has defined a set of standard processes for engineering a system. The ANSI/EIA-731, Systems Engineering Capability Standard, provides a capability model and an assessment method for determining "how well" the processes in ANSI/EIA-632 are defined and implemented. This paper describes ProcessIPPD, an all-Java collaborative systems engineering toolsuite that brings these documents "to life." At the heart of ProcessIPPD is a Systems Engineering Process Asset Library (SEPAL) which captures the generic systems engineering processes as specified in ANSI/EIA-632, and also allows organizations to customize and specialize these models to their circumstances (i.e., available resources, key practices, organizational structure, IT applications, and IT infrastructure). The use of this software toolsuite in conjunction with ANSI/EIA-632 standard documentation can be expected to accelerate the adoption, implementation, and practice of ANSI/EIA-632 standard within an organization.

From:

Madni, A.M. and McCoy, W.L., Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Systems Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 10-12, 1999, pp. SE211-SE216.