An enterprise modelling approach to team systems engineering

Abstract

Teams are engineered by dependent processes involving a spectrum of activities commencing with the initial identification of need, extending through to the realisation of that need and in some cases dissolution of the team. A new model of the team systems engineering life cycle is described in this paper which includes four main groupings of activities corresponding to: 'design', 'build', 'operate' and 'maintain' (DBOM) life phases through which a typical team system progresses. The paper illustrates how Enterprise Modelling concepts and the DBOM model can be innovatively deployed in order to systematically capture published knowledge about teams; thereby providing an analytic basis on which teams can be designed, built, operated and maintained. Here EM modelling constructs were used to document and visually represent relatively enduring aspects of team systems. This paper illustrates the approach by creating a semi-generic model of project teams.