Mission
Quality Management is one of the six Organizational Project-Enabling Processes described in the INCOSE Handbook v5 (Section 2.3.3.5) and in ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2023. The overall purpose of the Systems Engineering Quality Management Working Group is to foster the definition, understanding and practice of quality management in the systems engineering profession. This purpose will be achieved by the establishment of quality management as a cornerstone of professional development that adds value to the systems engineering profession, and engineering in general, through the following initiatives:
- Developing and elaborating systems engineering as a leadership discipline with quality management as a foundational competency,
- Enabling systems engineers to develop and expand the skills to manage process quality and increase profitability,
- Considering the organization as a system, fully integrating the process, the person and the job description, and
- Raising the level of professionalism, corporate and technical influence, job satisfaction and the career path trajectory
Scope
Quality management, as addressed in this working group, is distinct from other aspects of quality such as quality assurance, quality control and acceptable quality levels. Quality management is also distinct from the SE disciplines of verification and validation of systems. This working group aims to address quality management as a leadership and management discipline, as applied within systems engineering. This follows the approach to quality management described in the works of Deming, Crosby and Juran, but limits the application to the engineering and systems engineering disciplines. The working group will also address the connections of quality management to other areas of systems engineering, notably systems thinking and organizational leadership.
Goals and Achievements
- Certified 50+ SEQM WG Members as SEQM’s and Created Executive Committee
- INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook V5, Sections 2.3.3.5 and 2.3.4.8 Edited
- QMI-INCOSE MOU created to advance the adoption of SEH V5 QM Process Ethics
- Regularly scheduled videoconference meetings for QMI Certified members on SE SME Topics
- Regularly scheduled webinars open to all INCOSE members on Engineering and QM
- SEBok Articles on QM Process Ethics and the advancement of SE and AI
- A continuing presence of SEQM thought at the INCOSE IW and IS
- Collaboration with INCOSE Working Groups to advance QM in their efforts.
- Partner with the Barclay R. Brown Foundation, Inc., QMI, and INCOSE to grant tuition-free QMI-INCOSE SEQM and ITQM Certifications to students via the SEQM WG Barclay R. Brown Scholars Program
