INCOSE Chapter 5

Competency

• Ability to perform an activity or task

• Set of skills required in the performance of a job.

Hard Skills

Skills that are taught as part of the engineering discipline requiring science, mathematics, and quantitative modelling

Soft Skills

Skills that tend to be intrinsic to the individual and have to do with emotion intelligence and communication to influence, motivate, and resolve conflict.

Project Management

Application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activates to meet the project requirements.

PM Responsibilites

• Project Integration Management

• Project Communication Management

PM + SE Responsibilites

• Project Scope Management

• Project Stakeholder Management

• Project Cost Management

• Technical Management Processes

• Agreement Processes

• Organizational Project Enabling Processes

SE Responsibiites

• Technical Processes

• Quality Characteristics Approaches

Industrial Engineering

Optimizing the utilization of human resources, facilities, equipment, tools, technologies, information, and handling of materials to produce quality products and services safely and cost-effectively considering the needs of customers and employees.

Operations Research

A variety of techniques to quantify and improve the efficiency of systems and organization processes using scientific mathematical models

Information Engineering

Methodology for developing an integrated information system based on the sharing of common data, with emphasis on decision support needs as well as transaction-processing TP requirements

Decision Analysis

Uses a model of the decision maker’s preferences and risk attitudes to analyze tradeoffs between alternatives and is often used for strategic decision making.

Digital Engineering

Integrated digital approach that uses authoritative sources of system’s data and models as a continuum across disciplines to support life cycle activities from concept through retirement.