Bill Fournier Nov 2014 Systems Engineer for Non SE Bill Fournier

Agenda History/Value/Application Definitions Whom How-–Technical,(user) project (PM & PC) and Agreement(Contracts ), Tailoring, SpE CASE Job advertisement for SEs Recruiters Future References

History/Value/Application History- SE- Products, Processes, People- use, fix –Pyramids/Greek/Romans/Ren/ British Train/ Model T/ WW I tank –WW II- too much one person to detail design Value - % SE knee of curve for cost and schedule control Applicable –Government- user need document –Commercial- Marketing / focus groups –International –Services Bill Fournier

Definitions I Systems- Products, Processes and People & boundaries, Purpose 3 SE POVs – interdisciplinary, iterative, and recursive, way of thinking, feedback loops, top down and bottom up Requirements- Needs & technical requirements CONOPS- plans how use system Functions- verbs things systems must do to do mission Physical Architecture/Design- nouns products decomposed which expected to meet requirements and their interrelationships Implementation- Build & Code development system Integration- put subsystems and lower together Verification- Prove by Objective Evidence that the requirement has been met with the final configuration. TADI Validation- Assess we meet what user needed Test- method of assessing progress towards showing system works Production- Make final hardware built and coded in quantity Operation and Maintenance- use, maintain Disposal- retire/recycle Bill Fournier

Definitions II PM- Program/Project/Product Manager Configuration Management – Plan, ID, control, status, audit the technical baseline of system Trade Studies- analyze alternatives trades Technical /Design Reviews- decide if maturity worth going forward Risk/Issues- things could go wrong / have gone wrong TPMs- key early warning indicators of problems Acquirer- manager the development contract for the stakeholder Supplier- designs, builds/codes to meet contract(s) SpE- SE like specialties with narrower focus Bill Fournier

Whom EE IE OR ISE Technical PM Requirements Eng’g Designers Analyst Bill Fournier

Stages Exploratory Research Concept Development Production Utilization Support Retirement Bill Fournier

Technical Processes (Users) Stakeholder Req. Def. Inputs Req. Analysis Source Documents Arch. Design Stakeholder Needs Implementation Project Constraints Integration Verification Outputs Validation Balanced System Operation Maintenance Disposal Cross- Cutting Bill Fournier

Project Processes (PM & PC) Project Planning Project Assessment and Control Decision Making- Trade study Risk & Opportunity Management- Prob. & Impact Configuration Management Information Management Measurement- MOE/MOP/TPM Bill Fournier

Agreement Processes Bill Fournier Acquisition Supply

Tailoring Cost of formality Cost of Miss communications Reduce theoretical overall cost Bill Fournier

SpE Analysis Logistics- RAM… Cost effectiveness EMI Environmental Impact Interoperability LC cost Manf. and producability Safety & health hazard Sustainment Training needs Human factors Value Engineering Bill Fournier

CASE Computer Aided Systems Engineering How can computers help ? Bill Fournier

SE Job Advertising Table 1. Systems Engineering Roles Role Abbr. Short Name 1 RO Requirements Owner 2 SD System Designer 3 SA System Analyst 4 VV Validation/Verification Engr. 5 LO Logistics/Ops Engineer 6 G Glue Among Subsystems 7 CI Customer Interface 8 TM Technical Manager 9 IM Information Manager 10 PE Process Engineer 11 CO Coordinator 12 CA Classified Ads SE Bill Fournier

Future Software intensive Speed of Development Greater Specialization Recycle Systems Interfaces SE even greater value Bill Fournier

Processes Technical (User) Project (PM & PC) Contracting (Contracts) Tailoring (All) SpE (SpE) Bill Fournier

Related and Overlapping ISO 9000 Lean Six Sigma ITIL CMMI Bill Fournier

References INCOSE SE handbook version October 2011 ( version 4 will come out in 2015) INCOSE.org – CASE tool survey, certification, chapters ISO/IEC 15288:2008 DAU.edu Linkedin my group, my TR book Honourcode roles.pdf Bill Fournier