Chapter Meeting 12 January 2006 North Star Chapter PM Program Theme SE Interaction with other Disciplines Emphasis - Hands On Systems Engineering (Basics and Takeaways)

Chapter Meeting 12 January 2006 North Star Chapter PM 2 Tonights Agenda 6:15 PMPizza and Networking 6:45 PMChapter Meeting 7:00 PMPresentation: Identifying and Managing Customer Requirements 8:15 PMDiscussion & Questions 8:30 PMAdjourn

Chapter Meeting 12 January 2006 North Star Chapter PM Meeting Schedule A note on attendance National Events Chapter Organization Chapter Web Site Chapter Meeting

12 January 2006 North Star Chapter PM 4 12 January - Identifying and Managing Customer Requirements Boston Scientific 9 February – Safety Alliant Techsystems 9 March – 6 Sigma Implementation TBD 13 April – SE Education – St Thomas, UM, CCS General Dynamics 11 May – TBD Goodrich 8 June – Symposium Paper Medtronic 2005 Meeting Calendar

Chapter Meeting 12 January 2006 North Star Chapter PM 5 13 July – No Chapter Meeting INCOSE 2006 (Orlando, Florida) 10 August – Symposium Debrief & Summer Social TBD 14 September – Environmental Engineering Environ Labs 12 October – Logistics & Life Cycle Support Eaton 9 November – Human Engineering Ecolabs 14 December – Seasonal Party TBD 2005 Meeting Calendar

Chapter Meeting 12 January 2006 North Star Chapter PM 6 Attendance For the past several years we have had the chapter incentive program to encourage attendance at our meetings. We will continue offering an incentive. Details at next meeting (August). Stay tuned! BE SURE AND SIGN THE ATTENDANCE LIST!

Chapter Meeting 12 January 2006 North Star Chapter PM 7 National Events Details

Chapter Meeting 12 January 2006 North Star Chapter PM Organization Nominations & Elections Ways & Means Audit Ad Hoc Committees Membership ElliotAbrons Communication -open- Programs PaulMaggitti Standing Committees Nominations & Elections Ways & Means Audit Ad Hoc Committees Membership ElliotAbrons Communication -open- Programs PaulMaggitti Standing Committees Nominations & Elections Ways & Means Audit Ad Hoc Committees Membership Elliot Abrons Communication -open- Programs -open- Standing Committees SE Applications KrisBlanshan Education & Research NeillRadke Measurement -open- Modeling & Tools -open- SE Management Joint w/PMI Process & Methods -open- Standards Hugh Perry Risk Management John Palmer Contacts for Working Groups SE Applications KrisBlanshan Education & Research NeillRadke Modeling & Tools -Paul Maggitti- SE Management Joint w/PMI Process & Improvement -open- Standards Bob Hunter Risk Management John Palmer Contacts for Working Groups President Secretary KrisBlanshan Treasurer Hugh Perry Dir. Industry Keith President Elect Eileen Arnold Past President John Palmer Dir./ NeillRadke Board of Directors President Bob Hunter Secretary Peter Lucking Treasurer Ed Anderson Dir. Industry John Palmer President Elect Elliot Abrons Past President Paul Maggitti Dir. Acad/Govt Neill Radke Board of Directors

Chapter Meeting 12 January 2006 North Star Chapter PM 9 INCOSE Chapter Excellence in 2004 At the 2005 International Symposium, INCOSE recognized 27 chapters for meeting and exceeding INCOSEs standards for local service and contributions Three categories of awards: Presidents Award for Outstanding Chapter Director's Award for Most Improved Chapter Circle Awards (Gold, Silver, Bronze) North Star recognized as Bronze Circle Award Chapter first year. Shooting for Silver this year.

Chapter Meeting 12 January 2006 North Star Chapter PM 10 Website North Star Chapter Web Site hosted on INCOSE server:

Chapter Meeting 12 January 2006 North Star Chapter PM 11 Systems Engineering "Overview of Boston Scientific" Kevin Ward "Identifying and Managing Customer Requirements" Richard Traxler Tonight

Chapter Meeting 12 January 2006 North Star Chapter PM The Program Identifying and Managing Customer Requirements – Clearly identifying and prioritizing customer requirements is both an art and a science. It is not only important to ensure you understand the customer's wants and needs, but also to understand the impact of any given requirement on your business. Richard Traxler will highlight aspects of the system utilized by Boston Scientific to identify and prioritize requirements on both a franchise level and on a specific product level.

Chapter Meeting 12 January 2006 North Star Chapter PM 13 Our Speakers Kevin Ward is the Director, R&D Design Systems, ICardio Division, Boston Scientific Corporation. Kevin has been involved with systems engineering for over twenty five years, covering multiple industries and markets, from aerospace and defense to retail to medical devices. Kevin currently manages the R&D Design Systems department responsible for, among other things, implementing Design for Six Sigma and other specific systems engineering tools and processes. Richard Traxler is a manager in the Business Planning department for ICardio. He has been with BSC in R&D for fifteen years where he has focused largely on methods for identifying and managing business portfolios for each of our franchises. In 2005 Richard devised a method to identify, assess and prioritize requirements to help drive our business to "the next level". In this endeavor he has worked closely with R&D, Marketing and our Design for Six Sigma team, as well as with our customers, to ensure requirements are identified that will drive the business but at the same time are in alignment with our technologies and competencies.