Join us for our 9 April 2024 Chapter meeting featuring:
Main Presentation: "Risk Management and Systems Engineering: The Shaping of New and Future Activities of the INCOSE Risk Management WG", by Jack Stein and Bob Parro
Abstract:
Systems engineers as individuals, and the field of systems engineering as a whole, are faced with an enormous challenge. Increasing system complexity, and ever more rapid and unpredictable developments and changes in technology, and in the socio-technical environments in which we will engineer and use the systems of the future, are creating levels of uncertainty, risk, and opportunity never before encountered.
In response, the practice of risk (and opportunity) management, in general and specifically as related to systems engineering, are undergoing significant change.
This presentation will inform attendees of recent changes in the practice of risk (and opportunity) management, and will provide an overview of INCOSE Risk Management Working Group (RMWG) current and future planned activities. The session will include an open Q&A segment, and is intended to be engaging two-way exchange of information, thoughts and ideas, aimed at directing, prioritizing, and improving the activities and work products of the INCOSE RMWG.
Bio:
The INCOSE Risk Management Working Group (WG) was established in 1998, making it one of INCOSE’s longest running working groups. Currently, the WG has just over 120 members world-wide. The size and scope of activities of the WG are expected to increase as fundamental changes in the concepts, principals and practices of risk management defined in the 1st (2009) edition of overarching international risk standard ISO 31000, Risk Management — Principles and guidelines, are implemented in an increasing number of organizations and systems engineering projects and programs. These changes are reflected in ISO/IEC/IEEE 16085:2021, Systems and software engineering — Life cycle processes — Risk management, and in the 5th Edition of the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook.
Bob Parro and Jack Stein share in the chair-person duties of the Risk Management WG, making sure the WG is represented at monthly TechOps meetings and Annual International Workshops (IWs). As WG co-chairs, Jack and Bob have co-authored the Risk Management sections of both the 4th and 5th editions of the INCOSE SE Handbook. Together with WG member and standards specialist Paul Heininger, they represented INCOSE and the WG in the ISO/IEC/IEEE 16085:2021 work.
Jack Stein resides in Michigan and is a Past President of the INCOSE Michigan Chapter. Bob Parro resides in the Chicago area and is a Past President of the Chicagoland Chapter. They are both strong advocates of WG-Chapter interaction.
Upcoming INCOSE Events
INCOSE Midwest Gateway Meeting: Bob Scheurer
Ferguson , USA
418 S. Florissant Rd.
Bob Scheurer, Boeing: "Mission Engineering, Digital Engineering, MBSE, and the Like: The One Underlying Essential Attribute"
Update: Presentation from Bob Scheurer's talk
What: Bob Scheurer, "Mission Engineering, Digital Engineering, MBSE, and the Like: The One Underlying Essential Attribute"
When: 13 November 2018 - networking at 17:30, dinner at 18:00, presentation at 18:30
Where: Ferguson Brewing Company, 418 S. Florissant Rd., Ferguson
Abstract
Today’s systems challenges involve a desire to apply new approaches to produce and exploit innovative systems much faster and more affordably than ever before. Prior practices are questioned as to their relevance in today’s fast-based society that seemingly identifies new threats on a daily basis. Emerging methods to counter these threats include Mission Engineering, Model-Based System Engineering, and Digital Engineering. While each of these may have relevance to solving particular aspects of stakeholder problems, they all fundamentally share the same integral or resultant attribute at their core: an architecture.
This presentation addresses the vital role that systems architectures play in the midst of the various approaches to creating, modifying, or just understanding a system. While integrated tools, agile practices, new technologies, and different thinking may form the basis of this new age, the old-fashioned notion of a system architecture is still very much involved. An explanation is offered that shows how system fundamentals involving relationships between elements ultimately has to be a shared attribute and ultimately forms the basis for taking our systems thinking to the next level.
Biography
Bob Scheurer is an Associate Technical Fellow at the Boeing Company with over 35 years of experience in engineering and the application of systems engineering principles in a variety hardware and software developments, both in defense and commercial settings. Bob has participated in numerous professional society events/symposia, served on conference panels, delivered keynote addresses, and taught systems engineering. He also served on the industry working group that created the ISO/IEC/IEEE-15288.1 & .2 SE Standards and currently chairs the NDIA SE Architecture Committee.
Bob was granted his Professional Engineer license in 1987 and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute. He holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington University, St. Louis and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana/Champaign.