A One Day Tutorial -- Saturday, January 23, 1999

Instructor: Dr. David W. Oliver

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• Come away with a clear understanding of the process and the information captured during the early stages of system definition and development.
• Understand that this early stage of development is the first tier of a repetitive procedure that reuses the same engineering process at each level of decomposition.
• Learn that these techniques are equally applicable to the design of organizations, teams and processes.
• Learn how to enhance the performance of teams that must deal with customer, hardware, software and people issues.

Dr. Oliver couples the best practices of the commercial sector and information technology to preserve and enhance the best engineering practices for developing complex systems.  The process uses systems engineering with models and objects and utilizes object-oriented approaches.  The tutorial emphasizes the early stages of product definition and development, from requirements solicitation to concept analysis.  It applies object modeling to system definition.  The approach produces executable requirements and specifications. Concept analysis develops a clear set of effectiveness measures to serve as optimization and trade-of criteria and results in the ability to achieve early confirmation of requirements.  Test and validation methods can then be derived from the models.

WHAT'S IN THIS TUTORIAL:

The first half of the tutorial describes and explains the modeling principles and process.  The model equivalents of text requirements are described along with the fundamental information items needed to support the model.  The possible views of the information are shown.  The second half of the tutorial emphasizes concept analysis.  The tutorial will show how the technical requirements are related to user/owner/operator needs and to business strategy.

A locomotive example will be used throughout the tutorial.  It will illustrate how and where the model based approach can reduce development cost and time, and match the product to the marketplace.  In addition to matching the system requirements to the marketplace and business, the example will show how to communicate effectively and rigorously with management, sales, acquisition authority, design engineers, and users/owners/operators.  The tutorial is closely related to the recently published book on the subject, Engineering Complex Systems with Models and Objects, written by Dr. Oliver, Timothy P. Kelliher, and James G. Keegan and published by McGraw-Hill.

About the Instructor

Dr. David Oliver enjoyed a thirty-two year career at GE Corporate Research and Development.  While there, he developed several unprecedented systems, tools for Software Engineering, and Systems Engineering methodology and tools for both commercial and aerospace GE divisions.  He is currently engaged in the field of rigorous modeling of complex systems and is author of the book, Engineering Complex Systems with Models and Objects.  This material is the basis of training and consulting.  Clients have included GE, Loral, Martin Matrietta, Thompson CSF, Siemens, Motorola, First Data Corp., Motorola, and Chrysler.  He was co-chair of the INCOSE Process and Information Model working group and is a member of the Model Driven System Design working group.  He has 55 patent disclosures and 12 patents.  He is author of 50 professional papers.

ENROLLMENT AND CONTACT INFORMATION

How to Enroll:  Fill out and return the enrollment form provided.  Acceptable forms of payment are checks, bank drafts, and money orders (sorry, no purchase orders or credit cards).  Fees are payable to INCOSE. To "reserve" a space in the tutorial when paying by company check, remit a personal check and attach a note to hold for company payment.

Confirming Enrollment:  Call 650-938-0553 if you do not receive an enrollment confirmation by Tuesday, Jan. 19.

Enrollment Packets:  A confirmation notice will be in the enrollment information package.  A map to San Jose State and the auditorium will be provided as well as parking information and a phone number to be used in an emergency.  Course material will be distributed on the day of the tutorial at the registration desk.  Registration begins at 8 a.m.  The course is scheduled to end at 5 p.m.

Lunch is Provided:  A one hour lunch break is scheduled.  Lunch will be provided and the entree will be a selection of sandwiches with various meats and cheeses.  Please list dietary restrictions on the enrollment form.

Cancellation Policy:  Full refunds will be made prior to January 15, 1999.  The registration fee will also be refunded if the tutorial must be cancelled or rescheduled due to circumstances beyond our control.

Event Coordinator:  Ms. Mickey Farrance of ... to the Last Detail provides event operations support.  Enrollment status and changes should be given to

... to the Last Detail, at 650-938-0553 or incose@lastdetail.com

Our thanks to Dr. Ernest Unwin and San Jose State University for making SJSU facilities available for this tutorial.

For Information about INCOSE Tutorials:  Bob Barter, 925-422-5150, barter1@llnl.gov

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