MAP-01-011 HFI Technical Guide - Human Factors Integration ...

Chapter 5 – Team OrganisationThe process of developing the team organisation requires the early outline of thefuture organisation of teams to be defined. Organisational options are studiedand used to identify user roles. The future organisation is specified and final userroles are defined. The emerging user roles may be assessed using modellingand prototyping.The process of defining user roles and the team organisation involves liaisonbetween the HFI Focus and various stakeholders in conducting the HFI activities.The HFI activities are presented in Table 5-1. The ticks represent theprocurement Phases at which the activities are likely to be conducted.C A D M I D HFI ActivityOutline Future Organisation Outline User RolesIdentify Organisational Options Specify Future Organisation Assess User RolesHFI ProcessFinalise User RolesSupport Trials and ManagementSupport ModificationsProvide Proactive SupportTable 5-1: HFI Activities in Team Organisation5.2.1 HFI Focus Responsibilities• Liaison with FLEET-NPS, the authority responsible for the Quarter Bill(QB), to establish RN manpower policy, manning limits and future Branchstructure and relevance for user roles.• Resolution of trade-offs relating to user and maintainer characteristics tooptimise the whole-life costs (WLC) and performance of the CombatSystem or marine engineering equipment.• Development of an Operational Scenario Description (Annex 3) suitable foruse in assessing user roles and organisational options for the CombatSystem.• Establishing the WLC and unit production costs (UPC) associated withuser roles and team organisation options and performance of trade-offs toestablish options with the most favourable WLC and UPC.Nov 2006 Page 5-13 Issue 4