December 20, 2021 View The Recorded Presentation

Abstract:
Delivering complex systems requires consistent 80/20 critical thinking from concept to delivery. Nehal Patel will share how to deliver quality, robust products and services while strengthening teams and customer relationships. She will present
strategies of how to work with multi-disciplinary teams to continuously simply expectations to move projects from start to
finish while mitigating risks. The presentation will draw on her extensive knowledge in aerospace and defense contracting. Her book, Practical Project Management for Engineers shares real-world examples to recover schedule, track cost and performance, and explain the tools, techniques, and methodologies to ensure success. The book compares NASA, Department of Defense (DoD), and Project Management Institute (PMI) processes and summarizes the best practices that work in the real world to deliver quality products on time and on budget.

Bio:
Nehal Patel is Senior Global Program Manager with Amazon Robotics. She shares her 18 years of unique experience and talent leading engineering development teams while explaining ‘what you do on Monday?’ in simple, easy to implement terms. Nehal’s work experience spans a range of roles from being an individual contributor designing military radar systems for US Air Force and US Navy, leading an innovative engineering team to design new products, being a Program Manager overseeing military accounts of over $200M, negotiating underperformed breach of contracts to close reset deal of $1B and heading the risk management function as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton for a $3B US Air Force contract. She is an Author of ‘Practical Project Management for Engineers’ book along with certified project management professional (PMP) with a bachelor in electrical engineering and a master in systems engineering and leadership. Nehal’s volunteer professional association service includes Chief Strategy Officer for the National Association of Asian American Professionals, supporting and empowering Asian leaders to further career advancements and climb the corporate ladder, and Assistant Director of Events for the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Technical Operations (Tech Ops) organization.

June 30, 2021 View The Recorded Presentation

Abstract :
MBSE aims at transitioning the Systems Engineering practice from a document-centric approach to a model-centric approach. It is envisioned to be the next shift enhancing significantly our systems engineering capacities, in order to cope with the steadily growing systems' complexity. Although MBSE has been a trending topic over the last few years, its adoption among systems engineers is still growing slowly.

In this presentation, Stephane Lacrampe will introduce some challenges in MBSE adoption and will explain how the Arcadia method and the Capella tool are enablers for accelerating MBSE adoption among the systems engineering community.

Bio:
Stéphane Lacrampe - Obeo Canada director
Stéphane Lacrampe co-founded Obeo in 2005 in France. Obeo is an independent software vendor with a global reach, leading in open-source modeling software for system and software engineers, enterprise architects, and domain modeling experts. He acted as the CEO of the company for the last 12 years, and is now director of Obeo Canada and is in charge of the business development in North and South America for the company. Stephane LACRAMPE is also the co-chair of the INCOSE Systems Engineering Tools DataBase Working Group.

May 26, 2021 - View The Recorded Presentation
This presentation introduces an Excel-based tool for knowledge sharing and collaboration  through the Systems Model. Join Maple soft representatives Bharani Mohan and Paul Goossens for a session which will highlight the ease with which non-SE stakeholders can use Maple MBSE to collaborate effectively with the SE through the systems model, on the Teamwork Cloud platform. In this way, Maple MBSE has been proven to accelerate the systems engineering process by simplifying information-entry and reducing the risk of errors for all stakeholders, thereby increasing engagement with the process, and facilitating design collaboration across the enterprise.