Lessons Learned for Systems Engineering Capability Assessments

摘要

Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics &rnSurveillance Systems-Akron (NE&SS) hasrncompleted a continuous assessment against thernSystems Engineering Capability Model (SECM),rnEIA/IS-731. This assessment was conducted in threernstages: Quick Look, Incremental and Final. ThernQuick Look took several days to conduct. The twornyear Incremental assessment established thernprocesses to assure compliance with them in thernorganization. The one week Final assessmentrnvalidated the Level 3+ capability of the organization.rnLessons learned at each assessment stage arernapplicable to all engineering assessments whenrnevaluated against any type of assessment model. Thisrnpaper summarizes our assessment process andrndiscusses our lessons learned.rnSetting out to conduct an assessment andrnimprovement process can be confusing, especially forrnan organization at lower levels of capability maturity.rnThis paper is focused on planning future assessmentsrnby organizations with limited prior assessmentrnexperience.