Decision Analysis Working Group

Decision Analysis Working Group 31 January, 2017 www.incose.org/IW2017

INCOSE Connect address WORKING GROUP NAME Chairs/co-chairs INCOSE Connect address Frank Salvatore https://connect.incose.org/WorkingGroups/DecisionAnalysis Number of Members INCOSE Web page http://www.incose.org/ChaptersGroups/WorkingGroups/analytic/decision-analysis 59 IW Participants Other Web page None TBD 31 January, 2017 www.incose.org/IW2017

Charter 1 Purpose Advance the state of the practices, education and theory of Decision Analysis and its relationship to other systems engineering disciplines. 2 Goal Expand and promote the body of knowledge of Decision Analysis and its benefits within the Systems Engineering community. 3 Scope This technical working group will cover activities that are generically applicable to current and future Decision Analysis practices thru the product development and project life cycle for any and all domains and industries. 31 January, 2017 www.incose.org/IW2017

Published Products Updated INCOSE Decision Management Section of SE Handbook, and SeBoK Tradeoff Study Cascading Mistakes of Omission and Commission, IS 2014 (Best Paper) Tutorial on Decision Analysis and Trade Studies Book “Trade-off Analytics: Creating and Exploring the System Tradespace” http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111923753X.html 31 January, 2017 www.incose.org/IW2017

2017 IW Outcomes Announce and promote book published Decision Analysis Panel Discussion on use of models to support decision analysis DOD/Decision Analysis Digital Thread Workshop 31 January, 2017 www.incose.org/IW2017

Planned Work for 2017 ID Data, Models, Documents used and generated as part of the Decision Analysis Process. Promote and advertise Book 31 January, 2017 www.incose.org/IW2017

Open Discussion Have a discussion on how models support decision analysis.  How descriptive models are being used to support decisions.  How do we use models to help us communicate, to inform the math models we build, to capture knowledge, to connect data and models together.  How do we use models to organize goals and criteria used in a decision analysis effort?  How do we use models to describe solution alternatives How do we handle changes that are being made on the project in real time and How are models used to help inform a decision analysis effort of those changes?  How do we establish traceability to the decisions that are being made on a project? Please let me know if you will be able to present work that you may have done or are doing in this area.  31 January, 2017 www.incose.org/IW2017