Course Description

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Developing & Implementing a Systems Engineering Management Plan (APPEL-SEMP)

Audience

This course is designed for NASA’s technical workforce, including systems engineers and project personnel developing the competencies required to succeed as a leader of a project team, functional team, or small project.

Goal

This three-day course will introduce participants to the processes that support planning, development and execution of a Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP). Participants will learn how systems engineering deliverables are planned and managed. They will experience systems engineering technical reviews and appreciate the value of these “gates.”

Learning Methods

Learning will be accomplished through the use of lectures, discussions, group exercises, and other activities, including actual cases involving the planning, development, monitoring and assessment of systems engineering management plans with emphasis on NASA missions and systems.

Specific Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe NASA established (SE NPR 7123.1A and 7120.5D) processes for technical planning.
• Define technical work to be done in a given situation.
• Identify characteristics of good technical plans and the steps for their development.
• Develop a Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP).
• Explain how the SEMP and other technical plans are implemented and monitored.
• Explain the importance of establishing systems engineering management responsibilities.
• Describe how the systems engineering process is evaluated.
• Describe how systems engineering deliverables (e.g., technical baseline, TPMs, etc) are managed.
• State the value of product verification and validation plans and describe how they are developed.
• Identify the importance of phase-to-phase technical reviews.
• Explain the value of technical work productivity assessment to the process of systems engineering.

Notes

This course is registered by the Project Management Institute (PMI) for 23 Professional Development Units (PDUs). PMI Course ID: SEMP11