Staffing and organization in the engineering of systems

Abstract

The techniques of model based systems engineering are applied to the human issues of staffing, organization, and culture. This supplements IEEE standards and contributions by IEEE ECBS and INCOSE working groups on the technical process, the management process, a taxonomy for tools to automate the processes and a mapping of the process onto tools. This paper draws on abstractions and representations from the fields of anthropology and psychology and recasts them in executable models. This results in greater rigor in expression and analysis, and the potential to automate efficient capture of data and its transformation into the notations and views wanted by other disciplines. It provides a basis for rigorous discussion of staffing, organization, and culture through review and improvement of models. The analysis connects goals, rewards and tasks to classes of cultural behavior, and to four basic organization architectures. It applies to business re-engineering.