Mission
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT, originally the Telecommunications Working Group) underpins communities, businesses and governments. ICT stakeholders need ease of use, performance, security and reliability. ICT-based systems are complex, yet pressures exist for more responsive capability and capacity enhancements within challenging cost constraints. The INCOSE ICT Working Group (WG) proposes that systems engineering is under-represented in this application area and has a major part to play in the design, development, maintenance and operation of ICT-based systems.
The WG aims to enable telecommunications systems stakeholders and providers to better support their users:
- Critical and emergency services personnel;
- Federal and municipal governments, utilities and transportation agencies;
- Enterprise and consumer users of commercial telecommunications services and the broader public.
- implementing and operating Cloud services including IoT
- Aid in understanding and utilizing newer wireless technologies including 5G, SATCOM and short haul radio.
The WG intends to be:
- A forum for communications technologies practitioners to discuss problems and challenges;
- A forum for systems engineers who are interested in communications applications;
- INCOSE’s lead forum to advance the application of systems engineering for information communications technologies
The purpose of the WG is to improve delivery of communications solutions by enhancing the systems engineering body of knowledge for communications applications.
The WG will lead this effort within INCOSE, in liaison with external communications experts, standardization bodies, organizations and communities.
Scope
The ITC WG addresses processes, methods and tools; organizational aspects; business and information requirements; as well as human aspects (competencies and user experience) related to the engineering of communications systems. This includes at least needs gathering, requirements specification, design, maintenance, growth, evolution and operation. The ITC WG utilizes improvements from other working group with:
- INCOSE Working Groups and initiatives that provide enabling methods (“Agile Systems and Systems Engineering”, “Architecture”, “Competency”, “Lean Systems Engineering”, “Model-Based Conceptual Design”, “Model-Based Systems Engineering”, “Project Management
- Systems Engineering Integration”, “Requirements”, “Resilient Systems”, “Systems and Software Interface”, “Systems of Systems Engineering”, and “Systems Security Engineering”);
- “Automotive”, “Critical Infrastructure Protection and Recovery”, “Transportation” and “Space Systems”, etc.; and – external telecommunications experts and organizations where appropriate.
The ITC WG enables other INCOSE working groups, i.e.:The WG supports other professional organizations, private and public government agencies, and academia to widen viewpoints and representation within the WG.
Goals
To improve delivery of communications services and solutions by demonstrating practical application of systems engineering best practices.
To enhance the systems engineering body of knowledge for communications applications.
To develop a community of communications specialists within the INCOSE community through various efforts including, but not limited to:
- To promote, encourage, supervise and perform research where it improves the practice of systems engineering when utilizing/applying communications technologies and services;
- Developing papers to be presented during International Symposia and Workshops;
- Establishing project specific working relations with communications experts, standardization bodies, organizations and communities;
- Enhancing the INCOSE Systems Engineering Book of Knowledge (SEBoK) and the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook to show how systems engineering improves delivery of communications services and solutions;
- Initializing project specific working relationships with other INCOSE working groups.
