INCOSE Colorado Front Range COS Area Outreach Event March 20th 2025

INCOSE Colorado Front Range Chapter February 27th Virtual Meeting

Hello INCOSE Colorado Front Range!  Please join us at 1730 MST on 27 Feb for a chapter meeting. 

We will kick off a series of discussions along the theme of Better Decisions, Better Systems.

Come ready for fruitful conversation!

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 Virtual Event

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Time: 6:30 PM MT

Topic: Using MBSE to Perform Functional Analysis to Analyze Customer Requirements

The theory of Systems Engineering says we start at the top with customer needs, define requirements for the top level system in our product hierarchy, then decompose those requirements into the subsystem requirements at the next level down in the hierarchy- or does it? Some believe architecture work can begin once the requirements work is completed at any given level, but is that the only time that the tools and methods for architecture are useful? Have you ever been on a program where the practice of Systems Engineering aligns with the theory of Systems Engineering 100 percent? How do you cope with the deviations from the theory? What happens when the original requirement at the top is not an appropriate one that people should start with? This presentation will have a brief overview of systems engineering and then walk through an example of a top level requirement handed down from a customer to a program. We will use functional analysis to improve the requirement and answer the preceding questions.