Meeting Speaker: Rick Dove, Agile Systems and Processes 104: Quality Fundamentals – The Art of Agile Systems Engineering
Albuquerque , USA
Applied Technology Associates (ATA) at 1300 Britt Street, SE
Abstract: Agility is enabled and maintained by a fundamentally necessary and sufficient common structural architecture and ConOps in systems of all kinds; from agile development and deployment processes, to the agile systems and products that are deployed. This webinar will focus on sustaining system and SE process agility in operational environments that are Unpredictable, Uncertain, Risky, Variable, and Evolving (UURVE). Sustainability is shown as enabled by an architecture and a Concept of Operations based on design-quality principles of Requisite Variety, Parsimony, and Harmony. Examples and anti-examples will be drawn from a variety of domains exhibiting or ignoring these design-quality principles. The presentation will lead off with a quick review of fundamentals for agile system and process architecture, requirements, and design previously covered in Agile 101, 102, and 103.
Bio: Rick Dove, INCOSE Fellow, was co-PI on the original work which identified Agility as the next competitive differentiator, funded by the US Office of the Secretary of Defense through the Navy in 1991 at Lehigh University. He went on to organize and lead the US DARPA-funded industry collaborative research at Lehigh University’s Agility Forum, developing fundamental understandings of what enables and characterizes system’s agility. He authored Response Ability – The Language, Structure, and Culture of the Agile Enterprise (Wiley, 2001). He has employed these agile concepts in both architecture and program management for large enterprise IT systems, for rapid manufacturing systems and services, and for self-organizing security strategies. Through Stevens Institute of Technology he teaches two 40-hour graduate courses in basic and advanced agile-systems and agile systems-engineering, at client sites. Through Paradigm Shift he provides training workshops and strategy development services. He chairs the INCOSE working groups on Agile Systems and Systems engineering, and on Systems Security Engineering.