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 LatAm Webinar: Systems Engineering in Startups
Title: Systems Engineering in Startups
Date: 24 August 2022
Time: 3:00 PM EDT
Speaker: Eng. Ignacio Chechile Ignacio
This webinar will address the challenges in applying systems engineering processes to high complexity systems under tight budgets and schedules, such as in NewSpace startups that develop Earth Observation microsatellites, and where the organization itself is also considered as a system under development. It will analyze the continuous tailoring of processes as well as sharing lessons learned.
Biography: Eng. Ignacio Chechile Ignacio is an Argentinian engineer and author based in Helsinki, Finland. He published a book titled “NewSpace Systems Engineering” (Springer 2021) where he describes the process of designing space systems in the context of what is known as “NewSpace”, which is an industry with a strong entrepreneurial component, short life cycles and low-cost designs. Furthermore, he published “The Fighting Startup Quick Guide” that addresses considerations when leading or working in tech startups. Lastly, he independently published a free book in Spanish called “La Ciencia Dura” that delves into Systems Thinking and the challenges of STEM careers.
Zoom Link: https://incose-org.zoom.us/j/82030427344?pwd=dWtXdHVINU1mWE1sOWMyTzRRRGc0UT09
Meeting ID: 820 3042 7344
Passcode: 768022