Systems Integration Support
During project formulation, APPEL’s Project Support consultants evaluate systems-analysis requirements and provide services designed to meet specific project challenges. Systems management consultants offer project-tailored workshops or one-on-one mentoring, according to need.
Systems Management
Project practitioners learn how to avoid practices that lead to significant cost and schedule overruns. Through instruction, analysis of a project’s technical needs, and direct application of systems management principles, teams gain an understanding of how to transform requirements into system architecture through the integration and trade-off of concepts, effectiveness analysis, and specifications development. Project practitioners work to balance a project’s technical requirements with its business objectives.
Cost Estimating in a Systems Environment
Systems management support can focus on forecasting costs and schedules associated with developing hardware, software, and services-providing both theory and application of the estimating process and use of parametric cost-estimating models. This support benefits estimators charged with providing basic estimates for proposals; managers responsible for negotiating costs and schedules; software project personnel responsible for project planning, budgeting, and allocating resources; and development team leaders concerned about delivering quality products in an atmosphere of schedule and manpower constraints.
Services include project support for:
- Directing the project requirements development process. Managing system architecture development including concept trade-offs. Directing integration of system components and verifying that requirements have been met. Managing system documentation, data configuration management and flow. Ensuring that systems engineering estimating is accurate and repeatable. Using parametric models for estimating and risk-based decision making.
