INCOSE Finger Lakes: Annual Chapter Meeting
Meeting Title: Annual Chapter Meeting
Presenter Name: Gary Rushton, AWG Co-chair; Rick Dove
Date: Thursday, 18 January 2024
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM EST
Venue: Hybrid
Registration: Attendees need to pre-register. To register, send an email to [email protected] and state whether you will attend via zoom or in-person. Those attending in-person must register by noon, Jan 17th or closely thereafter. There is no cost to attend the meeting.
- Virtual: via Zoom; The zoom link will be sent out a few days before the meeting.
- In-person: L3Harris Technologies Rochester, NY (1680 University Avenue, Rochester NY, 14610). For in-person attendees (L3Harris): Further instructions will be sent out before the meeting.
Abstract:
Mini Presentation: Automotive Working Group (AWG) by Gary Rushton
The Automotive Working Group Mission:
- To promote the application and advance the practice of Systems Engineering in the automotive industry, encompassing OEMs, suppliers, and service providers in the private, commercial, and industrial vehicle sectors. Emphasis is put on the current needs and future challenges of the industry, covering issues related to product development, complexity, safety and security, diversity, reuse, etc.
Agile Systems Engineering … It’s Not Your Father’s Oldsmobile
- Presented by Rick Dove, who chairs the INCOSE working groups for Agile Systems and Systems Engineering, and for Systems Security Engineering
The Manifesto for Agile Software Development and related processes like Scrum are well known, and well suited to software engineering. But software engineering is very different than electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, and systems engineering. Engineering today needs the agility to anticipate and effectively respond to increasingly dynamic and uncertain environments. While tactical methods (the how part) for engineering agility necessarily vary among different engineering domains, strategies (the what and why parts) for achieving these common goals are domain independent. Research has shown us fundamental common strategies that enable agility in any domain; but each domain needs to express these patterns differently to fit the nature of that domain. This presentation will profile eight strategic aspects with application examples practiced at Tesla and SpaceX. In June of this year (2023), the Requirement Working Group released version 4 of the INCOSE Guide to Writing Requirements. The latest version of the Guide to Writing Requirements (GtWR) is now in the INCOSE Store as well as an update to the 7-page GtWR Summary Sheet. The practice of systems engineering is evolving and so must the definition and management of needs and requirements. This new update represents this evolution in how we view needs and requirements across the lifecycle. During this presentation, Lou will provide an overview of the updated GtWR and the changes that we made along with a brief overview of the other RWG products including the Needs and Requirements Manual (NRM), Guide to Needs and Requirements GtNR), Guide to Verification and Validation (GtVV), and newly released version 4 of the Guide to Writing Requirements (GtWR) and how they relate to each other, the INCOSE SE HB v5, and the SEBOK.