Standards & patterns
Use explicit specifications and agreed engineering practices.
Enterprise Engineering Factory
How can enterprise engineering work become reusable?
Organize repeatable engineering activity, standards and reusable outputs within the enterprise approach.
When this is useful
Use the EEF concept to organize engineering work when repeated activity would benefit from shared specifications, quality controls and reusable artifacts.
How it fits in the portfolio
EEF is an AEAF enabler that can use AEES standards and the AETM delivery lifecycle.
What it covers
Reusable outputs
Retain useful artifacts and their context for later work.
Controlled production
Connect engineering activity to review, evidence and acceptance.
Improving an order-reconciliation handoff.
Reuse a well-defined interface specification and test pattern while retaining the requirements and evidence specific to this handoff.
What an agreed engagement can produce
An engineering operating model, reusable artifact approach and scoped review and acceptance practices.
Limits
The concept is an operating capability. It is not evidence of an already deployed factory software product.
Documented methods and designs don't by themselves show that software is available or that outcomes have been measured.
Start with a real business need.
Connect the method to the workflow, capability or decision you want to improve.