Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
may work only with sound collected data and, because most accurate data are col-
lected by the team itself, it requires the team commitment to this self-observation.
This team commitment can only be effective if the team is the main beneficiary of this
overwork, collectively - with a valuable result on team processes-in-action - and indi-
vidually - with an added-value on competency development -.
Thus, as presented in figure 1, this analysis shall lead to (i) help to specify the mo-
dalities of engineers' interaction with project processes leading to the design of better
interactions or of corrective situations; (ii) contradict or support the reconstruction by
the engineer of his/her own activity, i.e. going from “pre-reflective consciousness” of
the actor towards a reflective practitioner attitude [1]. Both results have a valued im-
pact on the project processes.
VSE's Process
Reference Model
is related to
Project
Processes-in-
action
is recorded in
and examined by
acts
facilitates
Observatory and
analysis of the
course-of-action
leads to
leads to
Design corrective
situations
Team competency
development
motivates
Fig. 1.
The project's observable activities are self-recorded by team members. The analysis of
the project-in-action provides a decomposition of the global dynamic in terms of smaller units
and the relations of sequencing and embedding between these units. Two benefits are expected:
(i) a reflective consciousness of competency maturity level; (ii) a support to design corrective
actions. Both consequences may improve and facilitate the project processes.
3 Related Work
The “course-of-action” research framework [6] consists in several empirical and tech-
nological research programs in various domains (work analysis [4], traffic control [5],
sport [8], and music composition [21]). The work described in this paper uses plenti-
fully results of these research programs.
