SEBoK Users and Uses

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The users and uses described in this article were identified based on the six SEBoK purposes described in the SEBoK 1.0 Introduction.

Users can either be primary (those who use the SEBoK directly) or secondary (those who use the SEBoK with assistance from a systems engineer). Indicative, but not exhaustive, sets of example uses are shown in Tables 1 and 2 below.

For five common classes of SEBoK users, detailed use cases follow. Each provides guidance for using the SEBoK that is appropriate for a particular class of user. The use cases are:


To download a PDF of all of Part 1 (including all of the use cases), please click here.

Primary Users

Primary users are those who use the SEBoK directly, as shown in Table 1.

Table 1. Primary SEBoK Users and Common Uses. (SEBoK Original)
# Users Uses
1 Practicing systems Engineers ranging from novice up through expert
  • Users are taking on a new SE role in a project and need the best references to help prepare
  • Users want to expand their areas of SE expertise and specialization and need the best references to read
  • Users want to understand the principles of SE and find the best references to elaborate on those principles
  • Users want to understand what best SE practices to look for in a project they are reviewing, or for mentoring a new SE performer
  • Users want to continue to develop professionally through study of SE topics, including new developments in SE.
2 Process engineers responsible for defining or implementing SE processes
  • Users are maintaining a library of SE process assets and want to understand which are the most relevant SE process models and standards
  • Users are tailoring a process for a specific project and want to find examples in the literature of how others have tailored processes in the past or to find how a specific application domain should affect tailoring
  • Users wish to measure the effectiveness of their organization’s SE processes and want to find examples in the literature of how others have done such measurement
  • Users are defining standards for a professional society or standards organization.
3 Faculty Members
  • Users are developing a new graduate program in SE and need to decide the core knowledge that all students in the program should master; users would simultaneously reference GRCSE, which makes extensive reference to the SEBoK
  • Users are developing a new SE course and need to identify course objectives, topics, and reading assignments
  • Users in other engineering disciplines want to incorporate SE concepts in their courses or curricula
4 GRCSE authors
  • Users are members of the GRCSE author team and need to decide what knowledge to expect from all SE graduate students
5 Certifiers
  • Users are defining a company’s in-house SE certification program and want to understand what others have done, how such programs are typically structured, and how to select the knowledge that each person seeking certification should master
  • Users are defining certification criteria for a professional society or licensure program.
6 General Managers, Other Engineers, developers, testers, researchers
  • Users want to understand the scope of SE relative to their roles
  • Users want to understand basic vocabulary, boundaries, and structure of SE and are looking for a few primary references
  • Users want to understand the role of the systems engineer versus others on a project or in an organization
  • Users want to effectively perform their roles on a SE integrated product team
7 Customers of Systems Engineering
  • Users provide resources to and receive artifacts from systems engineers and want to better understand what to ask for, how to request it, how much to pay for it, and how to judge the quality of what is received
8 SE managers
  • Users’ teams of systems engineers are proposing changes in the teams’ processes and tools, and the users want to read independent information to evaluate the proposal
  • Users need to hire systems engineers and want to develop competency-based job descriptions
9 SE researchers
  • Users want to understand where the gaps are in SE knowledge to help guide their research agendas
  • Users want to familiarize themselves with research topics and want to know the best articles to read

Secondary Users

Secondary users are those who use the SEBoK with assistance from a systems engineer, as shown in Table 2.

Table 2. Secondary SEBoK Users and Common Usages. (SEBoK Original)
# Users Uses
1 Human resource development professionals
  • Users will access SEBoK with the assistance of a direct user in order to support the hiring and professional development of systems engineers
2 Non-technical managers
  • Users will access SEBoK with the assistance of a direct user in order to find specific information of interest about SE topics central to the managers’ concerns; e.g., a contracting manager might want to better understand SE deliverables being called out in a contract
3 Attorneys, policy makers
  • Users will access SEBoK with the assistance of a direct user in order to understand such legal issues as the liability of a systems engineer for errors in judgment on a project, or to understand the limitations of SE in guaranteeing the success of a project vs. the actions of sponsors, managers, or developers

Please note that the example uses shown in Tables 1 and 2 are intended to be indicative, but are not exhaustive.

References

Works Cited

None.

Primary References

None.

Additional References

None.

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