Process management for Skeptics (or the Cae for Process Management in Modern naval System Development)

摘要

The need for large, complex systems has fostered a need for large, multi-disciplined organizations to design, build, and maintain them. At the same time, caustomers of large, complex systems are demanding unprecedented level of effecency and quality. To achieve these demands, builders of complex systems must employ a formal mechanism for managing their design and development processes. Understanding and controlling top-level proccesses across large multi-disciplined organizations, alliances, or consortial, is referred to as "Process management". To be successful, any process management activity must have the understanding, input and support of all key participants. This paper was originally developed as a step in getting that understanding and support, especially frpom domain specialists whithout any process engineering experience. The arguments prresented here are applicable specifically to a large Navy development program, but they may be useful in gaining process management understanding for the development of other complex systems.