Scoping and

Concept of Operations

(ConOps) Module

Presented by Pye Pye Zaw

Scoping

What’s involved in defining the scope: › Defining the needs,

goals, and objectives

› Identifying stakeholders

› Developing operational concepts

› Understanding constraints

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A thorough scoping effort leads to organized and informed mission and system requirements.

ConOps

ConOps is a description of how a system will operate during the mission

It provides an operational perspective, stimulates requirements development related to user, reveals requirements and design functions of different use cases

Serves as a basis for key operation documents later.

Information Contained

› Description of the major phases

› Operational scenarios and/or design reference missions

› Operation timelines › End-to-end communications

strategy › Command and data

architecture › Operational facilities› Integrated logistics support › Critical events

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PS A concept of operations can include many aspects of operations, such as a

timeline, a communications strategy, varying operational scenarios, etc.Images from Presentation and NASA System Engineering Handbook

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