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A Business Introduction to Systems Engineering
- 1 Day
- Public delivery (Online)
- Corporate delivery (In-person or online)
- Certificate upon completion
- Professional Development Credits
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This one-day seminar introduces systems engineering and makes a strong business case for its use. It demonstrates how systems engineering contributes to improved engineering, project, and business performance, providing abundant evidence of its value.
The seminar is designed with two complementary goals:
- To help executives and managers understand the business value of systems engineering and its positive impact on enterprise outcomes.
- To give engineers and technical staff exposure to the major practices of systems engineering and how they strengthen project success.
The seminar is presented in two parts:
- Part A: Overview of Business Value (2.5 hours) – for executives, senior managers, program managers, functional managers, project managers, and engineering managers, as well as engineers in any role.
- Part B: Systems Engineering in Practice (5.5 hours) – for engineers in any role, as well as engineering managers and project managers.
Part A may be taken alone, or Parts A and B may be taken together.
Professional Recognition:
- This seminar may be credited toward the maintenance of the INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) certification for 8 Professional Development Units (PDUs) and PDUs may be claimed for PMI’s family of certifications, including PMP. Suggested PMI Talent Triangle® PDU allocation is Business Acumen – 3 hours, Ways of Working – 5 hours.
- This seminar qualifies for Engineers Australia and Engineering New Zealand (IPENZ) CPD purposes and likely others (8 hours).
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Register and pay 30 days prior to the course commencement date to receive a 10% early bird discount. Or register a group of 3+ for a 10% group discount. Available for corporate training worldwide.(Exclusive to South Africa)
(Exclusive to South America)
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This seminar is designed with two complementary aims:
- To help executives and managers appreciate the business purpose of systems engineering, what it is, and how it improves enterprise performance.
- To give engineers and technical staff an overview of the value and major practices of systems engineering, highlighting how these practices reduce risk and improve technical outcomes.
Key Learning Objectives
By the conclusion of this seminar, participants will have:
- An understanding of the value of systems engineering at business, project, and technical levels.
- Awareness of the process elements that make up a systems engineering approach and how they relate.
- Insight into how systems engineering reduces risk and improves both engineering and business performance.
- An appreciation of how systems engineering principles and terminology provide a common language within and between teams.
- High-level exposure to major practices such as requirements capture and validation, solution definition, design optimization, system integration, and verification & validation.
Training Method and Materials
The seminar is delivered in presentation and discussion format, supported by relatable examples drawn from real projects.
Participants receive:
- Comprehensive seminar notes containing presentation material.
- Complimentary access to PPI’s substantial Systems Engineering Goldmine and Systems Engineering Tools Database.
Further details:
- Part A: Overview of Business Value – for executives, senior managers, program managers, functional managers, project managers, engineering managers, team leaders, and engineers in any role.
- Part B: Systems Engineering in Practice – for engineers in any role, as well as team leaders, engineering managers, and project managers.
- Part A may be taken alone, or Parts A and B may be taken together. The seminar fee is the same in each case.
PART A: OVERVIEW OF BUSINESS VALUE (MORNING SESSION)
0. Welcome
- Our time together
- The role of the engineer
- The role of systems engineering
- A force multiplier, not a rule book!
- Proof of the value of systems engineering to the enterprise
1. A Life Cycle View of Value Delivery
- System views and system thinking
- Illustration of the application of systems engineering
- System/product development strategies
- SE and Product Line Engineering
- Digital Engineering, Digital Twin and AI
2. Principles, Concepts and Elements that Deliver Value
- Systems engineering principles and their relationship to value delivery
- SE process elements
- Concurrent (simultaneous) Engineering
- Traceabilities
- Requirements traceability
- Design traceability
- Verification traceability
- Everything-to-everything traceability
PART B: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING IN PRACTICE (AFTERNOON SESSION)
3. Problem Definition – Requirements Analysis
- RA objective
- RA methodology
- RA return on investment
4. Physical Design Part A
- Physical design objective
- Architecting
- Technology and innovation in solution development
- Configuration items
5. Logical Design
- Logical design – why do it?
- Forms of logic
- Behaviour modeling, MBSE languages and tools
6. Physical Design Part B
- What next?
- Pitfalls in architecting
- Interface engineering
7. Effectiveness Evaluation, Decision and Design Optimization
- Approaches: AHP, MAUT
- Building a value model
- Using a value model
- Pitfalls
8. Requirements Specification
- Requirement specification types and their roles
- Principles of effective requirements specification
- Pitfalls in the use of public domain requirements specification standards
9. System Integration
- Influences on successful system integration
- Integration planning – 9 alternative SI strategies
- System integration tasks
10. Verification and Validation
- V&V defined
- Technical reviews
- Requirements reviews
- Architectural design review (ADR) – PDR?
- Detail design review (DDR) – CDR?
- Requirements satisfaction audits (FCAs)
- Design description (BS-BS) correspondence audits (PCAs)
- System/product verification and validation methods and tools
11. Engineering Management
- Planning
- Integrating engineering specialties
- Management frameworks – Project (Work) Breakdown Structure (PBS/WBS)
- Managing configuration
- Managing interfaces
- Technical performance measurement (TPM)
- Managing residual risk
12. Summary of Key Points
- Key points revisited
- 11 more keys to success
13. What now? – Moving Forward
- Pitfalls to avoid
- Process improvement: using CMMI and other benchmarks
- PPI resources
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