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.
INCOSE-LA Chapter Speaker Meeting: Verification and Validation of Practice Questions for INCOSE Knowledge Exam
Register here! (Remote participation available. Contact info at this link)
Topic: Verification and Validation of Practice Questions for INCOSE Knowledge Exam
Abstract: Courtney Wright will present the following topics
- Describe requirements for exam questions, requirements for sample questions, and why they are different
- Describe the SE verification methods, the verification activities used for exam questions, and how we plan to verify for sample questions.
- Online form for receiving submissions of exam questions
- INCOSE Knowledge Online Exam format
Speaker: Courtney Wright is a CSEP and the INCOSE Certification Program Manager. She handles INCOSE Certification program's external interfaces and marketing, as well as ensuring internal policies are being followed. Courtney works with individuals and large organizations to support their professional development activities. She has also performed modeling and simulation for the USAF; specialty engineering for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO); requirements engineering for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA); architecture and design development for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); and SE training development and delivery for the FAA.
When: October 12, 2021 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM PST
Cost: Free
Venue: Virtual, register by clicking here: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eig97kofb7161458&llr=l4ihvgeab