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Task 1: Plan and Resource
the Architecture
Engineering Effort
6.1 Introduction
During this MFESA task, the system architecture team plans the system architecture engineering
effort and obtains the resources necessary to engineer the system architecture and its representa-
tions. Figure 6.1 summarizes this task by illustrating its typical inputs, steps, and outputs.
is task is a reusable MFESA method component and as such is intended to be tailorable
to meet the specific needs of the endeavor. erefore, it is to be expected that at least some of
the task’s objectives, preconditions, inputs, steps, postconditions, work products, guide ...