 | ||
 |
||
|
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Core Courses
- Systems Engineering: Principles and Strategies
- Systems Development: From Desire to Design
- Systems Integration: From Design to Proven Value
Electives
Systems Engineering: Principles and Strategies
Study the basic systems engineering principles, development strategies and tactics, while gaining practice in systems thinking and other systems engineering techniques.
You will learn to:
- Implement systems thinking
- Identify business case driven strategic objectives
- Select and describe effective tactical development approaches
- Identify stakeholders and values
- Manage project opportunities and their risks
- Manage systems engineering artifacts
- Manage technical baselines and design creativity
Course Sessions:
Introduction
This session introduces the course, participants, vocabulary, systems engineering environment, fundamental principles, and process.
Systems Thinking
This session covers the concept of systems thinking and the relationship to systems engineering and concept development.
Decisions Analysis
This session covers the management of uncertainty in treating the technical aspects of a project.
Framing and Valuation
This session covers how to make sure you're working on the right decision and how to value the prospects.
Managing the Value Proposition, Including the Influences of Opportunities and Their Risks
This session covers the identification, prioritization, analysis and management of project aspects that can benefit the outcome (opportunities) or hinder accomplishment of project goals (risks).
Baseline Management and Decision Gates
This session covers the definition and value of baselines and baseline management including the role of decision gates.
Project Cycles and System Engineering Models
This session covers project cycle function, design, aspects, and the relationship to solution development models.
Technical Development Strategies and Tactics
This session covers technical strategic planning, strategic objectives and the development of technical development and delivery tactics to realize the desired technical outcome.
Systems Engineering Artifacts and Artifact Management
This session covers the need and function of technical artifacts and how to manage them.
Summary
This session summarizes the relevant learning points and remaining open items.
Systems Development: From Desire to Design
Understand the techniques necessary to develop requirements, to define and select the best concept and architecture for each system entity, and to express those decisions.
You will learn to:
- Elicit, prioritize and express requirements
- Apply hierarchical valuation techniques and strategy tables
- Create candidate concepts and alternative architectures
- Select from among alternative concepts and architectures
- Derive and allocate functions and performance to lower level entities
- Communicate decisions using verbal and graphical techniques
Course Sessions:
Introduction
This session introduces the course, participants, vocabulary and the concept and architecture development process.
Requirements, Development, and Prioritization
This session covers the development of requirements by extracting them from all stakeholder interests and then prioritizing them
Requirements Expression
This session covers the expression of pre concept requirements using both verbiage and graphical means.
Conceiving Concepts and Architectures
This session covers the creation of candidate concepts and their alternative architectures.
Making Difficult Decisions
This session covers the methods of decision analysis applicable to systems engineering to include trade-off study methods
Selecting Concepts and Selecting Architectures
This session covers the application of decision methodology to select concepts and their architectures.
Requirements Flowdown
This session covers the allocation of required performance and concept dependent requirements to lower architecture entities.
Communicating Concepts and Architectures
This session covers the expression and communication of concepts and architectures to those that will act on them.
Summary
This session summarizes the relevant learning points and remaining open items.
Systems Integration: From Design to Proven Value
Explore the principles, processes and techniques to plan and orchestrate integration, verification, and validation (IV&V) of a system that satisfies the customers and stakeholders.
You will learn to:
- Apply decision theory to risk management during IV&V
- Plan IV&V activities and execute to that plan
- Conduct both in-process and end-of-project validation
- Conduct design proof, design margin, quality, and "ilities" verification
- Conduct product and personnel certification
- Manage verification and validation anomalies
Course Sessions:
Introduction
This session introduces the course, participants, vocabulary and the fundamental concepts of integration, verification, and validation (IV&V).
Facing Uncertainty in Making IV&V Decisions
This session covers the role of risk and risk tolerance in the approach to IV&V.
Risk, Design, and IV&V
This session covers risk tolerance and its impact on subsequent decisions.
Planning for IV&V
This session covers the early planning decisions and agreements to ensure buyer/seller IV&V conduct agreement.
Integration
This session covers integration ground rules, strategies, and tactics for various system types.
Validation
This session covers both in-process and final customer/user validation challenges and tactics.
Verification
This session covers the process for proving and certifying that designs perform as specified and function in stressful environments.
Verification Management and Anomaly Management
This session covers the use of certification as a verification method for material, personnel, and organizations.
Summary
This session summarizes the relevant learning points and remaining open items.
Decision Analysis
Learn a coherent approach to decision making with emphasis on the creation of distinctions, representation of uncertainty by probability, development of alternatives, specification of preference, and the role of these elements in creating a normative approach to decisions.
You will learn to:
- Analyze the personal and professional decisions that shape lives and organizations
- Follow a decision approach that scales to treat decisions at all levels of importance
- Use the concepts that clarify thinking and choice
- Avoid the pitfalls of intuitive decision making
Course Sessions:
Decision Concepts
Discover and understand the fundamental, but rarely known, concepts underlying any decision.
Characterization
Learn how to represent any alternative precisely.
Relevance, measures, and distributions
Representing information using the language of probability and avoiding erroneous inferences.
Choice - Rules of Actional Thought and Implications
Ordinary rules of logic do not apply when there is uncertainty. Here we extend logic to deal with the uncertain world we always confront.
Value of Clairvoyance and Risk Preference
How to value information in economic terms and represent your attitude toward risk.
Sensitivity Analysis and Information Gathering
Determining the effect on alternative selection and value of changes in the basis for the decision and whether more information should be gathered.
Assessing Uncertainty
Encoding the judgmental knowledge we have in a form suitable for analysis.
How well do we assess uncertainty
Learning to avoid the many pitfalls in representing uncertainty created by external filters surrounding us and our internal thought processes.
Decision Engineering
Methods for expanding our analysis to professional level problems.
Life and Death Decisions
Dealing with decisions that may put ourselves or others at risk.
Enterprise Risk Management
Understand how to apply decision analysis tools to manage risk and create value by embracing risk. The course takes an enterprise perspective that begins with the primary factors that undermine shareholder value. You will learn how to protect and enhance value through use of risk management tools such as real options, risk sharing, hedging, and insurance.
Implementing Systems Management
Systems Management is the seamless integration of Systems Engineering, Project Administration, and Process Improvement to deliver as predicted on technical development projects. This comprehensive approach requires systemic changes in the organizational behavior and conventional management practices to minimize stove pipes and foster high value collaboration within a “make a promise, keep a promise” culture.
You will learn to:
- Realize the benefits of value management for development projects
- Apply a comprehensive behavior-based model to guide your thinking and actions
- Relate performance improvement to process improvement
- Break down organizational barriers to gain widespread support
- Foster ownership by those responsible for results
- Develop supportive practices leading to systemic adoption
- Manage development projects to a successful conclusion
This course is a highly interactive workshop requiring collaboration, concept sharing, and problem solving with peers from disparate industry backgrounds. The course instructor will provide necessary guidance, foundational principles, and challenges to frame the team-driven discoveries. The course concludes with development of your enterprises’ actions necessary to achieve a holistic approach to value management.
Course Sessions:
The Ground Rules for Value Management
This session introduces the course, participants, vocabulary, course model, and the course code of conduct.
Communication
This session investigates and defines the necessary communication, the communication barriers, and methods for breaking barriers.
Teamwork
This session investigates and defines the inhibitors to teamwork and methods for encouraging people to work towards a common solution.
Project Cycle
This session investigates the enterprise’s project cycle purpose, aspects, format, resolution, and defines the characteristics necessary to foster team collaboration
Requirements Management
This session evaluates the problems associated with integrated business/technical requirements management and the solutions to eliminating undesirable practices of scope creep, gold plating, and parentless and unfulfilled requirements.
Organization Options
This session investigates organization options to facilitate value management adoption and wide spread support
Project Team
This session deals with attributes and competencies of the team personnel to staff the structures of Session #6.
Project Planning
This session investigates the content, approach, and techniques required to embody value management into the strategic and tactical planning of projects.
Project Value Management
Project value is based on the desired balance of project opportunities and their risks of attainment. This session investigates the approach to managing the combination of opportunity aggressiveness and risk tolerance.
Proactive Controls
Proactive controls are required to achieve outcomes as predicted. This session develops the controls necessary that ensure that development projects are controlled without superfluous bureaucracy.
Reactive Controls
Reactive control requires timely visibility, accurate status, and effective corrective action. This session develops methods for both intact and dispersed projects.
Leadership
Systems management requires highly capable leaders to inspire and motivate diverse domain specialists toward the project’s defined objectives. These attributes and qualifications will be developed.
Organizational Support and Infrastructure
This session investigates and decides on the enterprise support and infrastructure required to adopt value management with emphasis on best practices based process improvement.
