Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer: a guide to manage an international design team

Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is an international project supported by a culturally and geographically diverse design team that is centrally managed by the Project Office. Given the finite PO resources, it is imperative to provide a comprehensive plan to set the design team’s performance standard. MSE has created an integrated plan with configuration management and review process over MSE’s development, from conceptual design to science operations. The plan is a document-based system driven by mandatory reviews through the MSE development phases. This paper defines the objectives and expected outcomes of each mandatory review, and lists the titles, contents, developmental maturity and Configuration Management (CM) status of every document in required review data package. This paper also describes the Change Control protocol, within the CM framework, managed by formal Change Control Boards using a collection of configurable documents provided by the design team and the PO.