Introducing key guidelines

Guidelines are another very useful resource that can be used for best practice compliance. Guidelines, unlike standards, are typically not recognized at such a high level and are not typically mandated but just recommended. Having said that, they are a very powerful resource and the techniques that we can apply to modeling standards may also be used to model guidelines.

The main guideline that we shall be focusing on is the INCOSE Competency Framework, which will be discussed in the next section.

The INCOSE Competency Framework

The ISO 15288 standard focuses on the processes and life cycles associated with systems engineering, but it is also important to consider the people aspect, which can be done by looking at a competency framework. The competency framework that is most relevant for our purposes is the one that has been developed by INCOSE and is known as the INCOSE Competency Framework, and this is presented in this section. We shall start by...