The heart of INCOSE's Technical Operations effort is its more than 30 Working Groups, which are listed below. Working Groups are composed of INCOSE members who:

• Are interested in building their expertise and contacts in a particular area of systems engineering by working and networking with others with an interest and expertise in the same area, and/or;
• Have expertise to some level and are interested in sharing that with others as well as, on a voluntary basis, participating in the creation of Working Group products that will bring value to INCOSE stakeholders.
• Working Group members participate in such things as:
  • creating products unique to the Working Group for INCOSE stakeholder use (e.g. Measurement Guide, Tools Database, etc.)
  • reviewing papers in their area that have been submitted for an INCOSE International Symposium, or an INCOSE co-sponsored event
  • forming and/or participating in a panel or tutorial sponsored by the Working Group
  • helping to develop or review international standards
  • developing supporting material for standards (e.g. application guides, training checklists, references to sources of information, etc.) for use by INCOSE stakeholders and possible publication for wider use
  • collaborating with other Working Groups on similar projects that require expertise from different areas
  • supporting a technical initiative aimed at furthering the realization of the INCOSE Vision 2020, a view of the future of systems engineering
  • participating with INCOSE Chapters to set up and hold regional technical events
  • researching practices to support INCOSE Corporate Advisory Board (CAB) needs

The current list of active Working Groups is listed below. If you have an interest in an area not shown and know of others who share that interest, you collectively can get a new Working Group chartered. To start the process, contact techdir@incose.org