Description:

The theme of incose 99—Sharing the Future—infers sharing all facets of systemdevelopment. This includes shared responsibilities and activities within development, aswell as between developers and the multifarious stakeholders in today’s andtomorrow’s systems.

This tutorial addresses the implications of these shared responsibilities andactivities, and focuses on the central role that system engineers play in making themhappen. In the past, there has been a tendency for some system engineers to considerthemselves the "Great System Gurus," but in this shared development environmentit is more appropriate—if we are to be great at anything—to be the greatcoordinators and facilitators.

The tutorial examines system engineers’ roles in identifying the stakeholders,gathering and managing requirements, conducting cooperative architecture and design tradestudies, working with domain experts to configure the system and allocate requirements,serving as facilitators during development, transitioning smoothly into system integrationand test, assisting manufacturing startup, and working with the stakeholders during systemdeployment.

The tutorial provides a preview of some of the material in the presenter’sforthcoming book, Multi-Disciplinary System Development—A Practical Guide (Dorset House, 1999), and it is an extension and consolidation of two of his INCOSEpapers: A Total Systems Approach to Automotive Development (with Gary Rushton,INCOSE 97), and A Model for Planning and Managing Concurrent, MultidisciplinarySystem Development (INCOSE 98).

Intended Audience:

This tutorial is suitable for program and project managers, system engineers of alllevels of experience, and those who aspire to become system engineers.

Class Size: Limited to 50 participants.

Derek Hatley provides—through his own company, SystemStrategies—practical training in and support for multi-disciplinary systemdevelopment, development process definition and improvement, and the architecture andrequirements methods that he developed with Imtiaz Pirbhai. With over 40 years of variedengineering experience in commercial and military systems development, an msee, andseveral patents, he is the coauthor of two books on the process and methods and the authorof numerous technical papers.

Proposed Course Outline:

Please note the following is based upon a full-day tutorial. Thehalf-day tutorial will be a shortened version of this.

1. The implications of shared development.
2. System engineers’ roles in shared development
3. Identifying the stakeholders.
4. Gathering requirements.
5. Managing requirements.
6. Conducting cooperative trade studies.
7. Configuring the system.
8. Allocating requirements.
9. Facilitating and coordinating development.
10. Managing concurrent development.
11. System reviews.
12. Transitioning into system integration and test.
13. Manufacturing startup.
14. Product introduction.
15. Product deployment.
16. Closing reviews and lessons learned.