Themes Relating to Multiple Phases (Phase-Neutral Themes)

What are phase-neutral themes?
Phase-neutral themes do not relate directly to a phase, but rather to the entire project.
The following types of such themes exist in stdSEM:

  1. The life cycle approach, i.e. the form in which the execution phases are executed by stdSEM.
  2. General themes which relate to several phases in the same way or cannot be uniquely assigned to a single phase.

Life cycle approach
stdSEM supports five different forms of life cycle approach (see the full description of life cycle approaches). A decision is normally made for one of these models (the most suitable) in each project.
Irrespective of this, overlaps are allowed in the execution phases if the final results for a phase are available and these results represent the exact preconditions for the activities to be performed in the follow-up phase (decisions on the permissibility of overlaps are taken by the project manager in consultation with the project QA manager).

General themes relating to several phases

  • A detailed description of the general themes can be accessed by clicking "Themes relating to multiple phases" on the home page.
  • However, special features also need to be taken into account for each phase, e.g. CM in the Definition phase. Consequently, every phase has a separate page which describes the specific features of this phase for all themes. Jump to the phase overview page and click the appropriate icon in the margin (a green "i").

What phase-neutral themes are there?

PM Project management
PM consists of project planning, project checks and control (effort, deadlines, milestones, etc.), coordination, organization and administration. Effective project checks enable countermeasures to be initiated in good time if values deviate from the plan.
QA Quality assurance
Quality assurance encompasses all measures for planning and ensuring that the defined product quality is reached. These measures include reviews of documents, code analyses and checks of client-supplied products. It is particularly important that problems are identified (e.g. in the quality reports), so that appropriate measures can be taken as quickly as possible.
CM Configuration management
CM encompasses all tasks related to the orderly management of all events which occur and the items which are required in this regard (management of documents, sources, program components, error messages, etc.).
RR Reuse and reusability
RR can cut project costs considerably. It involves not only the reuse of product parts, but also methods, tools, designs, documents, data and all forms of project experiences (key word: "Patterns")!

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