Establish and maintain the project's work environment based on the organization's work environment standards.
An appropriate work environment for a project comprises an infrastructure of facilities, tools, and equipment that people need to perform their jobs effectively in support of business and project objectives. The work environment and
its components are maintained at a level of performance and reliability indicated by the organizational work environment standards. As required, the project’s work environment or some of its components can be developed internally or acquired from
external sources.
IPPD Addition
An effective work environment helps projects employing IPPD to conduct work using collocated or distributed integrated teams. Two-way communications media should be readily accessible by all relevant stakeholders in the
project.
The project’s work environment might encompass environments for product integration, verification, and validation or they might be separate environments.
Refer to the Establish Work Environment Standards specific practice in the Organizational Process Definition process area for more information about work environment standards.
Refer to the Establish the Product Integration Environment specific practice of the Product Integration process area for more information about establishing and maintaining the product integration environment for the
project.
Refer to the Establish the Verification Environment specific practice of the Verification process area for more information about establishing and maintaining the verification environment for the project.
Refer to the Establish the Validation Environment specific practice of the Validation process area for more information about establishing and maintaining the validation environment for the project.
Typical Work Products
1. Equipment and tools for the project
2. Installation, operation, and maintenance manuals for the project work environment
3. User surveys and results
4. Usage, performance, and maintenance records
5. Support services for the project’s work environment
Subpractices
1. Plan, design, and install a work environment for the project.
The critical aspects of the project work environment are, like any other product, requirements driven. Work environment functionality and operations are explored with the same rigor as is done for any other product
development.
It may be necessary to make tradeoffs among performance, costs, and risks. The following are examples of each:
· Performance considerations may include timely interoperable communications, safety, security, and maintainability.
· Costs may include capital outlays, training, support structure, disassembly and disposal of existing environments, and operation and maintenance of the environment.
· Risks may include workflow and project disruptions.
Examples of equipment and tools include the following:
· Office software
· Decision support software
· Project management tools
· Requirements management tools, design tools
· Configuration management tools
· Evaluation tools
· Test and/or evaluation equipment
2. Provide ongoing maintenance and operational support for the project’s work environment.
Maintenance and support of the work environment can be accomplished either with capabilities found inside the organization or hired from outside the organization.
Examples of maintenance and support approaches include the following:
· Hiring people to perform the maintenance and support
· Training people to perform the maintenance and support
· Contracting the maintenance and support
· Developing expert users for selected tools
3. Maintain the qualification of the components of the project’s work environment.
Components include software, databases, hardware, tools, test equipment, and appropriate documentation. Qualification of software includes appropriate certifications. Hardware and test equipment qualification includes calibration
and adjustment records and traceability to calibration standards.
4. Periodically review how well the work environment is meeting the project’s needs and supporting collaboration, and take action as appropriate.
Examples of actions that might be taken include the following:
· Adding new tools
· Acquiring additional networks, equipment, training, and support