Instructed by Dr. John Hsu, Ph.D., P.E., AIAA Fellow, ESEP (INCOSE)
ü From March 13 – April 5, 2023 (4 Weeks, 8 Classes, 16 Total Hours)
ü Every Monday and Wednesday at 1300-1500 Eastern Time (all sessions will be recorded and available for replay; course notes will be available for download)
ü This new innovative course provides a hands-on practitioner’s view to accelerate Systems Engineering development via an Agile approach.
ü The course will provide innovative Agile Systems Engineering tools, scrum team activities and tasks, and necessary systems engineering processes and knowledge.
ü All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course
OVERVIEW
This
new Agile Systems Engineering Course reviews the major features of the Agile
Development Process and the traditional Systems Engineering (SE) Process and
describes some proven techniques for merging the two processes that retain the
disciplined SE approach while accelerating development activities via agile
methods. Agile development focused
initially on making software development faster and more flexible.
Subsequently, agile methods have grown in popularity and have attracted
tremendous interest throughout the systems engineering community. Agile SE
employs tailored methods and processes to deliver incremental capabilities by
using a disciplined approach to coordinating parallel requirements elaboration
and prioritization, technical development, and operations. Agile SE emphasizes
proactive integration among enterprise architectures, platform architectures,
and related development efforts, where each of the stakeholder groups
contributes concerns and opportunities from its constituency for the good of
the successful release and system delivery. Guidance will be given in the
course on breaking down large products into many smaller, relatively independent
products that can be worked on separately. This enables Agile SE to eliminate
some of the traditional initial SE lengthy development by incrementally
developing typical front-end SE tasks up-to-PDR through a series of short
iterations guided by frequent customer feedback focused on selected patches of
applicable customer requirements. In summary, this course will help you to
learn how you can use Agile SE to accelerate product development, improve
customer satisfaction, and increase employees’ satisfaction by giving them much
more autonomy and a sense of ownership in their jobs.
- Understand the agile manifesto, agile principles, and agile systems development process.
- Understand the pros and cons of an agile approach to systems engineering – when it is and isn’t applicable.
- Understand the required systems engineering knowledge to support the agile approach.
- Learn how to use agile systems engineering to solve systems engineering issues, reduce uncertainty, modularize the product, shorten cycle time, and solicit quicker feedback from customers.
- Learn how to apply agile approaches to front-end systems engineering processes.
- Learn how the scrum team selects the work from Prioritized Backlog Items (PBIs).
- Learn how to conduct continuous interdisciplinary systems engineering reviews to replace traditional System Requirements Reviews (SRRs), System Design Reviews (SDRs), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDRs), Critical Design Reviews (CDRs), Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), and Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs), etc., with more frequent and incremental design reviews.
- Learn the essence of the short cycle with iterations through autonomous and bounded small teamwork.
- Understand the agile suitability assessment for your team.
- This course will be concluded with a radar chart assessment model for you to take home and use to test your team’s suitability for incorporating Agile Development into your current SE Process.
This course will be of interest to systems engineers, program/project managers, software engineers, aerospace engineers, space system engineers, Information Technology Specialists, educators, and other professionals that need to learn how to apply agile systems engineering to shorten cycle time and receive quicker customer responses.
COURSE FEES (Sign-In To Register) It's not too late to register! Catch up by watching recorded lectures.
- AIAA Member Price: $895 USD
- Non-Member Price: $1095 USD
- AIAA Student Member Price: $495 USD
OUTLINE
Introduction
- Agile Manifesto and Principles
- Pros and Cons for Agile Approach
- Ready for Changes
- Agile Development Process
- Systems Engineering Process
- Agile Systems Engineering Approach
- Strategy
- Agile Systems Engineering Approach
- Agile Systems Engineering Tools
- Scrum Team Activities and Tasks
- Systems Engineering Knowledge
- Requirements Management
- Requirements Validation and Verification
- Functional Analysis and Allocation
- Trade Studies
- Model-Based Systems Engineering
- MOE, MOP, CONOP
- Modeling and Simulation
- Strategy
- Agile Systems Engineering Approach
- Agile Systems Engineering Tools
- Scrum Team Activities and Tasks
- Additional Systems Engineering Knowledge
- Interface Management
- Verification and Validation
- Technical Review Map
- Agile Approach
- Technical Reviews Knowledge
- Four Key Questions for Requirements
- Requirements Development Risk Mitigation
- Requirements Development Risk Mitigation - Validation
- Decision Sequence
- Planning
- Solving the Wrong Problem
- Wrong Procedures
- Didn’t Do the First Part Right
- Filter Tools
- Overview of the Model
- Scoring the Questions
- Radar Chart Assessment
INSTRUCTOR
Dr. John C. Hsu, Ph.D., P.E., AIAA Fellow, ESEP (INCOSE), implemented the first break-through systems engineering (SE) application and a pioneer in developing and establishing SE process, metrics, templates, methods, and tools for the Boeing Company at the onset of systems engineering revitalization around the middle of 1990s. He serves as an Adjunct professor at the California State University Long Beach teaching SE and engineering management graduate courses, The University of California at Irvine Certification Program, AIAA professional development short courses, Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor and Honorary Professor of Queens University. He has over 40 years of diversified experience in systems engineering, aeronautical engineering, mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, software development, and engineering management, mainly working at The Boeing Company, as Technical Manager, Project Manager, and Principal Investigator. Based on John’s world-renowned pioneer expertise in systems engineering, teaching at the universities, AIAA professional courses and the crying demand from industries prompted him to develop the “Agile Systems Engineering” course. John earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer.
Classroom hours / CEUs: 16 classroom hours / 1.6 CEU/PDH
Course Delivery and Materials
- The course lectures will be delivered via Zoom. You can test your connection here: https://zoom.us/test
- All sessions will be available on-demand within 1-2 days of the lecture. Once available, you can stream the replay video anytime, 24/7. All slides will be available for download after each lecture.
- No part of these materials may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted, unless for course participants. All rights reserved.
- Between lectures, the instructors will be available via email for technical questions and comments.
Cancellation Policy: A refund less a $50.00 cancellation fee will be assessed for all cancellations made in writing prior to 5 days before the start of the event. After that time, no refunds will be provided.
Contact: Please contact Lisa Le or Customer Service if you have questions about the course or group discounts (for 5+ participants).
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