Leadership is taken far too much for granted. People are put into senior management posts with little consideration given to their leadership skills, even when these are essential to the given area of management. And all too often senior managers neglect to provide leadership.
Leadership is an essential element of successful project engineering, whether it relate to systems engineering or the project management areas. It is particularly essential at the senior levels, but is also essential at more junior levels. The failings of leadership in a project environment are more severe in the short and medium term than they are in general organisation management.
This chapter addresses the theory of leadership and the practice of leadership. In particular it emphasises that leadership skills can be significantly improved.
Introduction
What is Leadership?
The Scope of Leadership
Checklist of Leadership Functions, Activities and
Responsibilities
Effective Leadership
Checklist for Achieving the Task
Checklist for Building and Maintaining the Team
Checklist for developing the individual within the team
Motivational Factors
Models of Motivation
Motivation Checklist
How to give Recognition
How to Discipline/Criticise
Measuring people's performance
Lack of Performance by Individuals
Causes and examples of lack of Leadership
Problems to look out for
Organisational Leadership
Managing Professionals
The Mission Statement
Personal Characteristics of a good leader
Leadership Adages
Endnote
If effective cost-effectiveness trade-offs are to be made, then there must be an understanding of the cost. From the customer viewpoint the cost which should be of most concern is the full life-cycle cost. This chapter identifies the components of life-cycle cost. This chapter also identifies many of the issues relating to quantification of life-cycle cost.
Introduction
Components of Total System Cost
Checklist of components of total system cost
Acquisition/Ownership Costs
Recurring/Non-recurring costs
Some common complications
Factors affecting Costs
Cost Estimating
Steps in a life-cycle cost analysis
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Underlying the general approach to system design and production is the system life-cycle model. This chapter presents different 'models' of the life-cycle. Although the models are not as distinct as may at first appear, there are nevertheless different ways of thinking associated with the different models such that the model used can affect the details of the way the project is progressed.
Introduction
Standard System Model
The Fully Iterative Model
The Incremental Development Model
The Fast Evolution Model
The Spiral Model
The DGC Concurrent Engineering Model
Software Life-Cycles
The Waterfall Model
The Overlaping Waterfall
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LSA is a long list of supportability related tasks and sub-tasks which can be applied at different stages of the design. It is the analysis part of Integrated Logistics Support (ILS). As a formally defined set of tasks it is derived from US military standards. However it is nevertheless a useful checklist of supportability related issues which should be considered to some extent during system design.
Introduction
LSA Tasks - as identified in Mil Stan 1388
Factors affecting tailoring of LSA process
The LSAR
A long lead item is an item amongst a number of items for which certain action must be taken long before others, ie. one which in a time sense 'lead's by a long way the other items.
The term is most widely used in the context of procurement/production of a number of items, when procurement/production action for an item (the long lead item) must occur relatively early in order for the overall programme to be met.