Thoughts on the ASEC2015 – Day One
INCOSE UK Annual Systems Engineering Conference ‘Systems Engineering comes of age’
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INCOSE ASEC2015: ‘Systems Engineering comes of age’
INCOSE UK Annual Systems Engineering Conference
‘Systems Engineering comes of age’
Thoughts on the ASEC2015 – Day One (with images, tweets) · aditot
INCOSE UK Annual Systems Engineering Conference ‘Systems Engineering comes of age’
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Compared to its bricks and mortar counterpart, enterprises architecture is a work in progress to be carried out all along enterprises life cycle; hence the need of actionable representations of environments, organization, assets, and processes. As any artifact, actual or symbolic, models must serve some purposes which for systems architectures can be of two kind, … Continue reading "Actionable Enterprise Architectures" [...]
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As far as enterprise architecture is concerned, the issue of scale is fogged by two confusions: one between processes and structures, the other between space and time. That square is at the core of the discipline. The Matter of Time Even before the digital unfolding of environments, everybody was to agree that business is all … Continue reading "About Scales & Times" [...]
Preamble Beyond varying names, requirements have often been classified into four basic categories: Process requirements deal with organization and business processes independently of the part played by supporting systems. Application requirements deal with the part played by supporting systems in the realization of processes requirements.. Quality of Service requirements deal with users experience independently of … Continue reading "Requirements in Digital Environments" [...]
Note: this blog builds upon a previous blog published several years ago on allocation and traceability. We were recently asked the following question: “I’m trying to improve the way our requirements are leveled and allocated. One nuance that we have … Read More The post Allocation Revisited first appeared on Requirements Experts. [...]
On May 11, 2019 we presented our 1-day Scope Definition seminar for the INCOSE ChicagoLand Chapter Spring Seminar offering to their membership. This was a natural follow on seminar to the Writing Good Requirements seminar we presented at the 2018 … Read More The post Scope Definition Seminar for INCOSE ChicagoLand Chapter first appeared on Requirements Experts. [...]
Hi all, I will be giving a 1-day seminar on scope definition for the ChicagoLand INCOSE Chapter on May 11, 2019 for their Spring Tutorial. Last year I gave our 1-day Writing Good Requirements seminar which was very popular and … Read More The post Scope Definition Seminar in Chicago first appeared on Requirements Experts. [...]
A special thanks to all that attended the RWG sessions at IW2019 along with those that volunteered to give a presentation and lead a discussion on their topic – without your active involvement and dedication, IW2019 would not have been … Read More The post INCOSE IW2019 was a great success! first appeared on Requirements Experts. [...]
The RWG has a full agenda planned for IW 2019, Jan 26-29, 2019 in Torrance, CA. Planned Activities for IW2019 Welcome new members Overview to the RWG “Guide for Writing Requirements” for new members and the whitepaper “Integrated Data as a Foundation of … Read More The post INCOSE RWG Sessions Planned for IW2019 first appeared on Requirements Experts. [...]
In my book "The Manager's Guide for Effective Leadership" I stress the importance of giving people control over the processes they are responsible for in order to increase productivity. Of course it’s necessary to train people in the management of processes and to establish boundaries for what they can control before they are set free to control their own processes. There is another parameter that management controls that can increase or stifle productivity. That is the work space of the workers. The December 2013/January 2014 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek has an excellent article by Joshua Brustein on the modern workplace that is worth reading. This post borrows from that article and from my own personal experience as a worker. Brustein’s article is questions posed by Burstein and answered by several experts on work place issues. I will quote some of… [...]
We last addressed your leadership action plan at the end of the review of lectures 11-16. If you are a diligent student you have been very busy working on the actions you defined for yourself up to that point. That is why you have not been asked to update your plan as you studied lectures 17 – 29. Now it is time to go back to your plan.First, conduct an assessment of how well you are doing implementing your action plan. Are you making reasonable progress on every item? If so, you deserve a pat on the back. Are there planed actions that you have found difficult to implement? If there are, go back to the lecture that gave rise to the difficult actions and review the lecture to see if you are missing anything in your implementation efforts. Are… [...]
The first 22 lectures deal with the management functions of staffing, communicating and motivating. The remainder of the lectures deals with selected aspects of control. It is assumed that the student understands methods of cost and schedule control appropriate to the student’s organization. If not, references for self-study are provided in lecture 23. It is critical to understand how to apply the principles of control to different organization types because these principles must be tailored to the organization type and applying them inappropriately results in significant inefficiencies. It is also necessary to understand management accounting, which differs from standard financial accounting, in order to make sound decisions relating to costs of products or services. The three aspects of control discussed in lectures 23-28 relate to processes involved in the day to day work of any organization. These three are risk… [...]
Everything discussed up to this point is supportive of the manager’s main function, which is leading the organization in accomplishing its strategic objectives. I have discussed several times how implementing the methods discussed eventually frees the manager from daily firefighting activities thereby making time for more strategic work. An organization of highly motivated workers that are trained and empowered to control their processes will conduct the organization’s normal activities with little oversight from the manager. However, accomplishing an organization’s strategic objectives almost always involves doing some things differently or some new things. The success of the organization depends on accomplishing these different or new things successfully. Ensuring that the organization has the highest probability of success in achieving strategic objectives is the responsibility of the leader. In this lecture I describe a process that helps both the leader and the… [...]
In most cases the largest cause in a Pareto chart is the first target for improving a process. However, in this example the students aren’t complaining about the time they spend in the stacks. The students’ primary complaint is about the second shortest step in the overall process. Based on these observations the process improvement team decides to divide the problem into two pieces. First they will determine if they can reduce the amount of data required for the checkout process, thereby addressing the main complain of the students, and second they will analyze the process in more detail to see if the overall time can be shortened without major investments in new equipment or facilities.Examining the rational for requiring the student’s local and home addresses for checking out books determined that this policy traces to the era before the… [...]
We've come across many clients who are interested in taking the computational notebooks developed by their data scientists, and putting them directly into the codebase of production applications. My colleague David Johnston points out that while data science ideas do need to move out of notebooks and into production, trying to deploy that notebooks as a code artifact breaks a multitude of good software practices. Predictably, that results in a number of observed pain points. This behavior is a symptom of a deeper problem: a lack of collaboration between data scientists and software developers. more… [...]
A computational notebook is an environment for writing a prose document that allows the author to embed code which can be easily executed with the results also incorporated into the document. It's a platform particularly well-suited for data science work. Such environments include Jupyter Notebook, R Markdown, Mathematica, and Emacs's org-mode. When I'm exploring some data, it's useful to keep my notes close together with the code that performs the exploration. I like to try some code, look at the results, and note down any observations I have from that execution. A computational notebook allows me to combine these together easily in a single document. Here's an example of this, looking at some analysis of my google analytics data for martinfowler.com. I'm doing this in R Studio, which uses the R Markdown format. The example out here is a graph,… [...]
A misleading title to draw readers into an occasionally true story A couple of weeks ago Cindy was woken in the wee hours by sounds of animals fighting in our garden. As she investigated, she saw two coyotes run off, leaving our cat's body behind. A state of nature is a state of violence, and our feline predator was quickly turned into prey. Yet our garden has high fences all around, making it an unlikely spot for coyotes to explore. So is there more to that night than a simple act of nature? more… [...]
In last weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign, the New York Post broke a story alleging corrupt behavior by the family of Joe Biden, a candidate for President. The story wasn't confirmed by other media organizations. Supporters of Donald Trump acted to spread the story on social media, but both Twitter and Netscape took unprecedented efforts to block the story. That action to block the story became a story in itself, and there's been much discussion about whether the social media giants should block a story like this. Reading this discussion I think there's an important nuance that's been missed, one that applies in general to cases like this. more… [...]
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That’s how you know that they’re not obvious. When smart, committed people disagree about the answer to a question, you’ve found a question worth pursuing and a discussion worth having. [...]
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