The Significance of Icons

Icons in the blue marginal column have a unique assignment - i.e. each icon has the same significance throughout the entire document.
This icon returns you to the stdSEM welcome page.
Always leads to the stdSEM Home page (can be found in every header).
Provides help on the current page (only on the more important pages).
Leads to the general help page, from where you can access various themes (contained in every header).
This allows you to start a free text search across all stdSEM web pages. All stdSEM web pages (clickable) where the searched text string occurs are displayed (appears in every header).
Leads to the web plan and generates a red marker to indicate your current position (if possible).
The "learner driver L" will lead you to carefully prepared introductions - how to use stdSEM and new contents of stdSEM.
Provides an index of important terms relating to stdSEM and links to the main descriptions.
Provides an overview graphic of all phases and the related results (rapid overview and access to phase results).
Provides a list of all documents which need to be created according to stdSEM (rapid access to the document description and download facility).
Leads to a page from where you can download PostScript and pdf files for all phases and various themes.
"Frequently Asked Questions" (abbreviated to FAQ). These contain notes and tips on the current web page in the form of questions and answers.
Leads to notes on tools which are relevant to the current activity.
Notes and tips on the content of the current web page.
Leads back to activity, result, phase overview or previous web page (higher up in the hierarchy); the text varies depending on the environment.
Leads to a more exact description of an activity or result.
Leads to the table of contents of a result document.
Leads to a checklist for an activity ("What actually needs to be done?").
Leads to a checklist for a result document (a type of "annotated table of contents"). This checklist can be also found in the Word for Windows templates.
Leads to an example of how the individual points of a checklist could be completed.
This allows you to load a simple Word for Windows sample document with annotated table of contents onto your PC. Depending on your browser's settings, Word for Windows will either be started automatically (please perform a Save As immediately!) or you can save the file locally on your PC.
Leads to a page allowing you to select from several Word for Windows sample documents.
Leads to a comprehensive example document (planned for the future).
Provides phase-specific information on phase-neutral themes ("What is particularly important about this theme in this phase?"). The text serves to designate the particular theme.
  • Project management (PM)
  • Quality assurance (QA)
  • Configuration management (CM)
  • Reuse and Reusability (RR)

Reference to the "outside world" (i.e. web pages lying outside stdSEM, but normally still within the Siemens intranet). - It is your task to find your way back again!
Reference to a Word for Windows document in the "outside world". Depending on your browser's settings, Word for Windows will either be started automatically (please perform a Save As immediately!) or you can save the file locally on your PC.
Reference to an Excel document in the "outside world". Otherwise as above.
This provides you with an opportunity to give full expression to your comments, suggestions, frustration, problems, public declarations of love and any other intentions you might have and discuss these with others in the stdSEM discussion forum!
If you click this gift box, you will find a surprise...
Leads to a quiz with questions (and answers) on the individual phases.

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