The customer organisation is the organisation that contains
at the very least the end users, operators, trainers, supporters
and maintainers of the system under development. The customer organisation will also invariably have an acquisition component which
will be responsible for the project management and systems engineering
activities associated with the acquisition of the system in accordance
with the user requirements. The customer organisation could
also contain the developers, although it is common these days
to outsource the development activity to a contractor. The customer organisation manages the contract with the contractor.
Other topics in our resources on Systems Engineering related to Customer include: