SYLLABUS
SYST 530 -
Systems Management and Evaluation
Fall 2004
Professor: Dr. Philip Barry
Work Phone: (703) 883-7826
FAX: (703) 993-1706
E-mail: pbarry@mitre.org;
Office: GMU: Science and Technology II
Office Hours: By appointment
Class Location: Innovation Hall 136
TA: TBD
Course Description:
Provides
the necessary techniques for evaluating the cost and operational effectiveness
of system designs and systems management strategies.
Performance
measurement, work breakdown structures, cost estimating and quality management
are discussed.
Configuration
management, standards, and case studies of systems from different applications
areas are discussed.
Course Hours: Tuesday
Text: Project Management: A Systems Approach to
Planning, Scheduling and Controlling,
8th edition (2003); Harold Kerzner. John Wiley and Sons ISBN 0-471-22577-0
Class Website: TBD
Grades: 35% - group case study
20% - paper
15%
- exam 1
25% - exam 2
5% - class participation
LATE PAPERS
WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED!
Grade Element
Discussion
SYST 530 -
Systems Management and Evaluation
Fall 2004
The
Group Case Study is the focal point of student effort within this course.
Groups may meet during class time, but individual preparation may be expected
outside of the classroom. There will be groups of several people self-formed
during the second meeting of the class.
On the designated weeks a different group will be assigned as the discussion
leader for the case study. The group
lead is responsible for sending out the presentation materials for the case
study to the class and the instructor two days prior to presentation. For more detail please see the page entitled
Case Study Guidance in this packet.
Each
student will be required to write a paper on an area pertinent to this class
(e.g. leadership, performance measurement, etc.). There will be two
deliverables for this paper. The first
deliverable is an overview of the prospective paper to include an annotated outline. This is an optional deliverable and will not
be graded. However, it is strongly
encouraged, as it has been shown to provide valuable guidance. The second deliverable is the completed paper
and it will be graded. It will be due 2
Nov 04.
Guidelines: The completed paper must be at least 10 pages
long, use no more than 1 1/2 line spacing, and contain at least 10
references. Reference pages, tables of
contents, figures, etc. do not count towards the page count. References must be from academic or professional
publications to include books, journals, conference proceedings, etc.; the
class text, informal conversations or instructor notes are not acceptable. The paper will be graded based on the
original contribution of the author. For
example, if you chose a paper that examined leadership you would be expected to
compare and contrast leadership styles and give your analysis not just document leadership styles. You are required to use a professional format
such as one used in an IEEE journal. Do NOT
turn in 10 pages of uninterrupted prose.
There
will be two exams. Both exams will be
in-class and will cover relevant material in the course. Both exams will be open book.
This
class will be very interactive. 5% of
your grade will be determined by your active participation in class discussions
and lectures in addition to
your participation in formal status reviews for your project. Merely attending class is not considered
class participation.
Description of Case Study
We
will use case studies as a learning mechanism to explore the project management
tools and techniques introduced in the lecture segment. Students will form into groups and will be
responsible for weekly assignments that explore the aspects of the case
study. The weekly assignments will be
collected in a case study notebook that the students will maintain and turn in
at the end of the semester. The
professor will also provide problems within the case study that will require
the students to use the techniques discussed in class to best learn the tools
and techniques of project management.
As
part of the case study students will be required to make several presentations
in class. The presentations will focus
on the project related homework assignments given in the previous week. Students will be required to present the
problem, identify all of their relevant assumptions, discuss the approach
taken, identify elements of uncertainty, and explain why their approach is the
best approach that can solve the problem.
Students will then lead a discussion with the rest of the class to
solicit the views of their colleagues and explore angles that perhaps were not
considered during their analysis of the problem.
There
will be two case studies examined during the semester. Half of the groups in the class will work the
first case study while the other half of the students will work the second case
study. Collaboration between groups will
be strongly discouraged; independent work will be rewarded. The students will be required to
periodically bring their case study notebook to class. Each member of the group
will be required to participate in the oral presentations. Part of your class participation grade will
depend on your participation in the oral presentations. Additionally, on the final day of class all
groups will make a presentation of their case study. Obviously, differing approaches to the
problem are expected in that there is in fact no right answer. However solid engineering approaches based
upon the lectures that we have discussed in class will be expected. We will talk more about the final
presentations as the semester progresses.
You will receive outlines of the case studies next week in class.
Intermediate
work products for the case studies will be posted on the class web page.
Additional
Sources: There is a wealth of good
literature available on the subject matter of this course.
§ Harvard Business Review (super for the leadership and management portion of the course) and an excellent source of case studies
§
INCOSE Insight (informal and short, but educational articles)
§
INCOSE Systems Engineering Journal
§
PMI Project Management Journal
§
PMI PM Network
§
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
§
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
§
IEEE Engineering Management Review
§
DSMC Systems Engineering Fundamentals
(http://www.dsmc.dsm.mil/pubs/gdbks/sys_eng_fund.htm)
§
EIA/IS 731 Systems Engineering Capability Model (http://www.incose.org/lib/731-news.html)
Note
that there are three main bodies of knowledge that intersect in this
course: systems engineering (INCOSE,
IEEE), leadership and management (Harvard Business Review), and project
management (PMI).
Week 1> 31 Aug - Introduction
¨ Background and Introductions
¨ Lecture: Systems Engineering Life Cycles
and Processes
¨
Week
2> 7 Sep
¨ Lecture:
Requirements Engineering and Concept of Operations
¨ ADDIS Game
¨ Form Groups
¨ Introduction to the Case Studies
¨
Develop a Concept of Operations and An Initial Requirements
Specification for your case study
¨
Week 3> 14 Sep
¨ Lecture: Planning the Technical Effort
¨ In-class exercise: Project Overrun (pg.
635) led by Instructor
¨
Develop a WBS for your case study Trace to Requirements
¨
Week
4> 21 Sep
¨
Lecture: Scheduling
¨ Case Study Presentations
¨ Based
on the WBS, develop a schedule for your case study ID
Critical Path
¨
Week 5> 28 Sep
¨ Lecture: Organizational Structures and
Staffing
¨ Case Study Presentation
¨
¨ Design
the organization structure program for your case study.
Propose
notional staff.
Week
6> 4 Oct
¨ Exam I Half Class
¨ Case
Study Presentation
Week 7> 11 Oct
¨ Lecture: Pricing and Estimation
¨ Based on the WBS and schedule, develop
a cost estimate for your
case
study
¨ Case Study Presentations
¨
Week
8> 18 Oct
¨ Lecture: Risk Management & Technical Performance Measurement
¨ Case Study Presentation
¨ Based
on the WBS and schedule, develop a qualitative and
quantitative risk assessment for your case
study. Identify and employ
TPMs.
¨
Week
9> 25 Oct
¨ TBD
Week
10> 2 Nov
¨
Lecture: Quality Management
¨
Case Study Presentation
¨ Develop
a quality management program for your case study
¨
¨ Papers
Due NO LATE PAPERS
¨ Homework:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
Week
11> 9 Nov
¨ Exam II Full Class
Week 12> 16 Nov
¨ Exam Review
¨ Lecture: Special Topics Organizational
Design/Myers-Briggs
Personality Test
¨ Case Study Presentation
¨ Instructor challenge problem 1
¨
¨ No Class
Week 14> 30 Nov
¨ Lecture: Decision Support Systems
¨
Case Study Presentation
¨ Instructor challenge problem 2
¨
Week
15> 7 Dec
¨
¨ Course Evaluations
¨
Reading TBD
¨ Final Presentation Format for Case Study
Reviewed
¨
Optional Instructor challenge problem
Week
16> 14 Dec
¨ Case Study Final
Presentations and Notebooks