The Cluster System Engineer Group (CSEG) consists of the Cluster System Engineers of all Clusters in the Organization . At the organizational level, it corresponds to the role of the Working Team at the team level.
Together with the Portfolio Architect , the Cluster System Engineer Group is responsible for the Technology and Architecture side of the product development process at the organizational and portfolio level .
System concepts describe possible solutions for system and product variants (applications = feature sets) and their requirements . System concepts implement the System Requirements within the restrictions (contraints) and balance the quality requirements (Quality Attributes)out. The P4 framework explicitly provides several System Concepts as solution options for the implementation of System Requirements in the system backlog. This means that several solutions to a problem may be identified and developed further (divergence in the solution space). The goal of product development is to only develop so many different System Concepts (in parallel or in succession) until some concepts are disqualified and ideally a clear favorite emerges. Depending on the degree of innovation in the development, this can be a very large number of concepts at first, or new concepts may even arise during product development.
In today’s product development, the concept of reuse and thinking in building blocks, product lines and platforms has become very popular. This is reflected in the P4 framework by the architectural aspect of this level. The requirements for the platform are contained in the ” Quality Attributes & Constraints ” (eg modularity, reusability, markets and applications).
The responsibility of the Cluster System Engineer is also the division of so-called capabilities into Modules, which are described as services in more complex systems. The basic idea is that certain Modules provide skills that can be used by other Modules.
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