IW2023 - Our Focus at the International Workshop: 

In recent years, a number of international and industry standards, guidelines, and handbooks that directly and indirectly impact systems engineering have introduced new and revised sets of principles and practices aimed at accomplishing transformational change and improvement through risk (and opportunity) management. These principles and practices include, for example, the design and implementation of management systems and frameworks for creating a culture and organization-wide mindset of "risk-based thinking," as well as structures for "integrating risk and opportunity management with all organizational processes." The INCOSE Risk Management WG participated in both the development of ISO/IEC/IEEE 16085:2021, "Systems and software engineering — Life cycle processes — Risk management,"  and the corresponding updates to the 5th Edition of the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook, which elaborate on the new principles and practices in the context of systems engineering. In the interest of creating awareness and supporting the implementation of these new principles and practices, the Risk Management WG has decided to focus on the following at IW2023:

• PRIMARY GOAL: Identify and initiate relationships with 3-5 additional WGs interested in establishing a relationship with the Risk Management WG for the purpose of integrating risk (and opportunity) management with the SE process(es) they are associated with. EXAMPLE: An example of risk management "integration," specifically "risk-based thinking," being applied as part of an SE process is illustrated in "Triple Your Chances of Project Success: Risk and Requirements," by Lou Wheatcraft, Co-chair, INCOSE Requirements Working Group. NOTE: This paper was presented in the Risk Management session of the 21st Annual INCOSE International Symposium, Denver, CO, USA, June 2011.
• Representatives of the Risk Management WG will attend sessions held by other WGs, to identify WGs and Initiatives to form additional relationships with.
• On the last day of the IW, if time and scheduling permits, the Risk Management WG will hold a meeting to summarize the results, and discuss potential relationships with interested representatives of other WGs and Initiatives.

Outcomes at IW2023:

With respect to the above described focus and goals for the IS2023, the follow outcomes were achieved:

• During the IW the Risk Management WG had significant and very helpful interaction with the Requirements WG. The Risk Management WG plans on continuing and strengthening the relationship with this WG.
• Six additional WGs were identified for pursuing liaison relationships with over the coming year: (1) those already associated through the "loss driven engineering" activities, i.e., the System Safety, System Security, CIPR and Resilient Systems WGs, and (2) the PM-SE Integration and SE Quality Management WGs.
• Unexpected Additional (Positive) Outcome: Upon a suggestion made in an unplanned discussion, the Risk Management WG will join in with the existing "WG Integration" effort. It is believed that this will be mutually beneficial.