3.9      Cross-Cutting Activities

This section identifies the needed activities that support the systems engineering process steps identified in the previous sections. Each of these cross-cutting activities support one or more of the process steps and in most cases are shown as Enablers and/or Controls. These cross-cutting activities are processes that support each other as well as the systems engineering process steps.

The following is the list of cross-cutting activities that have been identified as part of this Guidebook.

§         Stakeholder Involvement

§         Elicitation

§         Project Management Practices

§         Risk Management

§         Metrics

§         Configuration Management

§         Process Improvement

§         Decision Gates

§         Decision Support/Trade Studies

§         Technical Reviews

§         Traceability

These activities are critical to successfully developing Intelligent Transportation Systems, and, in the case of configuration management, extend throughout the life of the system. Cross-cutting activities provide a set of industry best practices that support the gathering of information plus provide the checks and balances needed to ensure the quality of the product.