Tutorials

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Tutorials
Cost $150 including GST

Tutorials will be held on 14 November at:-
Boeing House, 363 Adelaide Street (cnr Wharf), Brisbane. Ground Floor Training Rooms
Ph: 3306 3000, Contact: John Massey Ph: 3306 3027. Please report to reception on arrival.

Requirements Management Workshop

Innovation and Creativity

Requirements Management Workshop
A major cause of cost overruns in development type contracts are unplanned costs due to defective documentation.
As an example of the cost of defective documentation, consider just the formal and informal meetings on a typical large project resulting from trying to interpret a single defective requirements document. If you multiply the time spent in these meetings, by the number of meetings and the numbers of attendees, the unplanned labor cost of these meetings can very quickly reach $500,000 or so over the time frame of a project. Now multiply that by the number of defective documents, and think about
the effect on your project budget and schedule.

If your process of writing requirements documents can be improved, your costs will be reduced, irrespective of any other improvement you make. Recognizing how critical this process is within the government and industry, Joe Kasser first developed a workshop to improve the documentation preparation process in 1995. This workshop is customized to requirements documents and is upgraded following each iteration.

Innovation and Creativity
This full-day tutorial is designed to teach systems engineers, of all levels, the foundations of creativity and innovation in the systems engineering process. This is partly a response to the interest shown in creativity and innovation at INCOSE 99, during plenary sessions and technical sessions. The teaching of creativity and innovation in a systems engineering context serves to foster the practice of world class systems engineering in all areas and disciplines, and is therefore in keeping with the aims of INCOSE. The tutorial is based 35 years' experience in the field of creativity and innovation from a psychological perspective. In particular the tutorial will focus on the 'non-cognitive' factors in creativity and innovation. These non-cognitive factors, such as motivation, personal properties and social factors are frequently neglected in the pursuit of 'tricks' or 'quick fixes' for achieving creativity and innovation. Creativity and innovation, however, cannot flourish in an engineering environment without significant support and understanding not only of the traditional 'thinking' or cognitive components that are emphasised in most creativity training programs, but also of the less widely recognised non-cognitive aspects.

This tutorial presents a balanced approach to creativity and innovation. Participants will engage in a variety of activities designed to teach the necessary skills and understanding of creativity and innovation, but in addition there will be activities which assist in developing an appreciation of the importance of non-cognitive factors.

The tutorial answers the following questions:
What has creativity got to do with Systems Engineering?
What problems exist, in relation to creativity and innovation, in the training of engineers?
What are the psychological elements of creativity?
What are the characteristics of a creative product or system?
What is innovation?
What blocks to creativity exist, and how can they be overcome?

Participants in this tutorial will develop a deeper understanding of creativity and innovation. They will develop an understanding of the process of creativity in relation to products or systems. Participants will gain valuable insight into methods for embedding a creative and innovative culture in their workplace.

Theme Streams

Theme streams are sessions devoted to a single topic. In a theme stream, several presenters will discuss different aspects of the same topic.

Joint Systems
Session Chair - Dr. Martin Burke, Joint Systems Branch, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury (Martin.Burke@dsto.defence.gov.au)
The papers in this stream are provisionally entitled:

A Theoretical Framework for Joint Systems Engineering
Assessing the Value of Joint Systems Capability
Product Lines for Joint Systems Synthesis

Panel Sessions

Tool's Vendor Shoot Out
Session Chair - TBD

Listen to representatives of different Tool vendors tell you about their products, then ask them the hard questions about your application. Vendors who have agreed to participate are:

Vitech Corporation - CORE

Systems Engineering from a Global Perspective
Session Chair - A/Prof. Joseph Kasser, Systems Engineering and Evaluation Centre, University of South Australia (Joseph.Kasser@unisa.edu.au)

Building modern complex systems or “systems of systems” and other systems with international subcontracts and partners requires that the builders have a global perspective. The panelists will discuss systems engineering from the perspective of their country. Each panelist will briefly describe the way they do systems engineering. There will then be a discussion about the similarities and differences.

The Teaching of Systems Engineering in Australia
Session Chair - Prof. Stephen Cook, Systems Engineering and Evaluation Centre, University of South Australia (Stephen.Cook@unisa.edu.au)
Taking part will be:

Professor Anthony Maeder, Head of School, Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering, Queensland University of Technology

Test and Evaluation in the Global Environment
Session Chair - Brian Hall B.M.L. HALL, COL,DTRIALS.

The proposed question to the panel is:

"If there was ONE thing about T&E that you would like to see changed - what would it be?" Taking part will be

Dr. Ernet Seglie OSD/DOT&E
Justin Crane (DERA),
Ed Greer (US DoD)

Capability Maturity Models and Their Role in Process Improvement
Session Chair - Alan Arnold, Director of Systems Engineering, Department of Defence, Canberra (Alan.Arnold@cbr.defence.gov.au)
Abstract - A brief introduction of Capability Maturity Models will be followed by presentations on how they have been applied within Defence and Australian Industry.

John Massey from Boeing Australia will discuss his experience from using CMMs.
Alan Arnold will present a case for tailoring CMMs to the organisation's business objectives and functions.
David Marshall will discuss his experience in using SA CMM for software process improvement in the Defence Acquisition Organisation.
Terry Rout will provide an overview of progress on the evaluation of CMMI and its relationship to ISO 15504.

You are invited to E-mail questions for the panels to the Session Chairs before the conference. This "heads up" capability will provide the panellists with the time to research the answers and modify their briefings ahead of time.

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