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Chapter Overview17 January 2008North Star Chapter 13 March 2008

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2008Program Theme

Back to Basics

Emphasis - Systems Engineering Life Cycle

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Tonight’s Agenda

    6:15 PM Registration, Networking, Pizza

6:45 PM Chapter Meeting & Intros – John Palmer

7:00 PM Functional Analysis and Decomposition

-- Chris Armstrong of Armstrong Process Group

8:00 PM Questions

8:30 PM Adjourn

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Chapter Calendar

A note on attendance

International Events

Ambassador Program

Chapter Organization

Chapter Web Site

Chapter Meeting

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• What: “How to Write Good Requirements”

• Who: Lou Wheatcraft, Senior Consultant/Instructor for

Compliance Automation, Inc.

• When: Saturday, 19 April 2008, 08:30 – 16:30

• Where: MTS in Eden Prairie

• How to Sign Up: Go to the North Star website and click on “Tutorial

Page”. Then download the announcement and application form

(Deadline – COB 11 April)

2008 Spring Tutorial

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Lou Wheatcraft is a well known expert on requirements. When you leave this session you

WILL know how to write good requirements!

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17 January - Technical Management: Planning, Controlling, & Managing Systems Engineering Success Timber Lodge

21 February - Requirements Analysis Process Telelogic at BAE Systems

13 March - Functional Decomposition Medtronic World Headquarters

10 April - Architecture Dev Process University of Minnesota

8 May – INCOSE IS 2008 Paper Review plus presentation on Requirements Development

University of St Thomas 15 - 19 June – INCOSE Symposium

Meeting TBD

2008 Meeting Calendar

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10 July - Summer Social, Including IS 2008 Debrief

Place to be Announced

14 August - The Integration Process

Boston Scientific

11 September – End System Verification and Validation Process

MTS

9 October - Operations, Maintenance, and Disposal

UPS Tour

6 November - Risk Management

ATK

14 December - Annual Holiday Party

Place To Be Announced

2008Meeting Calendar

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Why sign in?

1. For the past several years we have had the chapter incentive

program to encourage attendance at our meetings. We will

continue offering an incentive.

2. For guests or members attending for the first time, this also

insures your notification by email of all subsequent events

IF YOU WRITE SO WE CAN READ IT!!

Attendance

SO - BE SURE AND SIGN THE ATTENDANCE LIST!

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• In the past we had an active list of Chapter Ambassadors• Ambassadors are representatives at local companies who are

willing to post flyers and otherwise publicize Chapter events• We need to reactivate the Ambassador Program.• If you would be willing to periodically place announcements on

bulletin boards and otherwise spread the word, please contact John Palmer at:

jpalmer@usfamily.net

• The chapter will host an Ambassador’s lunch later this summer

Ambassador Program

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2008International Events

Details online @http://www.incose.org

April 04 - 05, 2008

Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER) 2008 (Red

ondo Beach, CA)

June 15-19, 2008 INCOSE International Symposium (Utrecht,

Netherlands)

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2008Chapter Organization

INCOSE TechnicalLeadership Team

Eileen Arnold

Contact for Technical Activities

PresidentNeill Radke &John Palmer

SecretaryBob hunter

TreasurerMark Elpers

Dir. IndustryJohn Palmer

President ElectNeill Radke & John Palmer

Past President Elliot Abrons

Dir. Acad/Govt Eileen Arnold

North Star Leadership

Contact Eileen Arnold

• Systems Science• SE Technical Process• Architecture• SE Management Process• Requirements• Risk • SE Support Processes • Measurement• Modeling & Tools• Specialty Engineering• Application Sectors

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CommunicationEileen Arnold

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Communication

North Star Chapter Web Site

hosted on INCOSE server:

www.incose.org/northstar

North Star Newsletter – The Integrator

(February Issue Recently Posted and emailed)

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Guest SpeakerChris Armstrong

Chris Armstrong, President of Armstrong Process Group, Inc., is an internationally recognized thought leader and expert in iterative software development, enterprise architecture, object-oriented analysis and design, the Unified Modeling Language (UML), use case driven requirements, and process improvement.

Over the past twenty years, Chris has worked to bring modern software engineering best practices to practical application at many different private companies and government organizations all over the world. He has worked in many different industries including financial services, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, education, publishing, real estate, life sciences, and social services. He has spoken at over 30 conferences over the last eight years and has written a number of articles for various publications including Cutter IT Journal and Rational Developer Network.

In 2005, Chris started Armstrong Process Group, Inc., and continues his focus

on organizational development, process improvement training and consulting, and IT professional development and certification.

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