Preparing specifications
This course covers:
- Defining requirements
- Input and outputs
- Make or Buy
- Sourcing suppliers
- Specifying to select (MS Market Survey), to buy (PE Price Enquiry, IT Invitation to Tender), to do (Jobs), to obtain in-kind (agreement, MoU Memorandum of Understanding)
- Templates available and how to use them
- Writing the specifications
- Approval process
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Practical examples (from the HiLumi project)
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08:30
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08:40
Who is who 10m
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08:40
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09:00
Defining requirements 20m
The art of describing what you really want and what you really do not need.
- Conceptual specifications
- The exercise of describing a "Coffe capsule" -
09:00
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09:20
Inputs and outputs 20m
Who should interact/take part with you for defining the requirements
What you need from others, how you get sure that the requirements do not evolve.
- Practical exercise -
09:20
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09:40
Make or Buy 20m
Identifying
- components and subcomponents
- level of maturity
- differences with "on-the-shelf" components
- interest by collaborations
- model/prototype/pre-series
- risk analysis
Practical exercise -
09:40
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10:00
Sourcing of suppliers 20m
- Identifying who can help you in the process
- IPT presentation
- Industrial days / Nations@CERN
- Visits
- Open market consultations
- The time factor
- The cost factor
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10:00
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10:20
Coffee break 20m
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10:20
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10:40
Specifying to select (MS Market Survey), to buy (PE Price Enquiry, IT Invitation to Tender), to do (Jobs), to obtain in-kind (agreement, MoU Memorandum of Understanding) 20m
Make
- documents I have to prepare, when and for whom level of approval and process
Buy
- cost and process linked to the cost
- documents I have to prepare, when and for whom level of approval and process -
10:40
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11:00
Templates available and how to use them 20m
- Templates to make and to collaborate
- Templates to buy
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11:00
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11:40
Writing specifications 40m
Group exercise
- Make
- Buy -
11:40
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11:50
Approval process 10m
More dynamic than static. Who should be always in the loop
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11:50
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12:10
Practical examples (from the HiLumi project) 20m
Reuse when you can instead of reinventing the wheel
Some examples available -
12:10
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12:30
Final Questions & Answers and your opinion on the course 20m
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08:30
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08:40