For over a decade, in a competing global context with strong regulatory constraints, industry must face new strategic challenges:
- To accelerate the delivery of the products on the market.
- Develop secured and attractive products.
The control of the projects remains more than ever a need to ensure an operating margin and arrival on-time to the market.
International studies showed that:
- More than 30% of the projects are stopped before their end.
- More than 70% of the remaining projects did not fulfill the initial project brief.
- The average project exceeds 189% of the budget and 222% of the planning.
The root causes of these failures are first due to requirements management (40%), then to project management (15%) and data management (10%). In the same proportion, successful projects are the ones that managed these 3 elements.
Since beginning of 1990, industry has faced these problems and developed an approach to develop complex systems: Systems Engineering.
Some professional associations (INCOSE – International Council on Systems Engineering; in France, AFIS – Association Française d’Ingénierie Système) have been created with the goal to give feedback and to share best practices.
Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary collaborative approach to derive, evolve, and verify a life-cycle balanced system solution which satisfies customer expectations and meets public acceptability.
Systems Engineering is concerned with:
Balance between requirements, performances, costs, delays and risks of the project
Optimum functional and physical solution regarding the needs
Ability for the system to operations and its support
Face to this stake, in complement to its validation and risks expertise, ADN strengthens its expertise in engineering complex systems to the benefits of its customers.
ADN is involved in INCOSE and AFIS societies, and uses experienced practices on methods and tools.
Our Core Activity Compliance & Validation
System engineering
- Process Auditing and Engineering practices
- Set up of business / project engineering process in a system approach
- Definition of system engineering data baselines
Requirements engineering
- Assistance in specification writing: needs elicitation, requirements writing, traceability matrix, requirements allocation during the system design
- Management of sub-contractor relation : bid responses and conformity to requirements
- Requirements review, requirements quality writing (MUST), assisting by automated document review tool (LEXIOR)
Product Line
- Elaboration of generic requirements baselines, architecture and generic tests, reusable in projects
- Elaboration of envelope requirements documents
- Management of variants / products
Integration, Verification, Validation, Qualification (IVVQ)
- Tests Strategy : rationalization of integration/ verification/ validation/ qualification activities on the overall life cycle
- Building IVVQ Plan and traceability
Piloting Engineering Project
- Organization of Engineering in the project
- Elaboration of project development plan
- Set up of metrics and forecast indicators
Change and Configuration Management
- Piloting Changes, impact assessment, traceability
- Set up of Configuration Management
Tools
- Set up of support tools and bridges: Quality Center (HP), DOORS / DOORS RMF (ex. TREK, IBM), REQTIFY (Geensys), Synergy (IBM), MS Project server (Microsoft)...
Tools Services
- Quality Center in SaaS mode
- LEXIOR, Reqtify to an assisted review of requirements quality
- MS Project serveur et ADN_Metrics to pilot project in SaaS mode
Assistance
- Communication
- Training
- Operational coaching and support
- Guides, leaflets, websites…
