NDIA SE Division – Annual Planning MeetingDecember 11-12, 2013

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SE Effectiveness Committee– 2013 Task Summary

• Widely disseminated the results of the SE Effectiveness Study through numerous channels

• Released detailed survey results report• Discussed follow-on work ideas with DASD(SE)

• SE self-assessment tool for programs• “Lightweight” Pre-PSR program assessment

• Government presentationso DASD(SE)o USD(AT&L)o DoD SE Forumo Army SE Forumo DoD DPWG

• Conference presentationso IEEE Syscono INCOSE IS2013o NDIA GVSETSo NDIA SE Conference (panel)

• Presentations for INCOSE chapterso Finger Lakes chaptero Space Coast chaptero Chicagoland chapter

• Corporate presentationso Westinghouse Nuclearo Northrop Grumman Corp.o Harris Corp.o Boeing

• Other presentationso MITREo INCOSE webinaro Podcast for SEI

NDIA SE Division – Annual Planning MeetingDecember 11-12, 2013

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Systems Engineering Effectiveness Committee – 2014 Task Plan

Proposed 2014 Tasks:

Task 1: Develop a means of measuring risk management process value

- Enable the evaluation of risk management in programs

- Enable the comparison of alternate risk management paradigms

- Enable the improvement of risk management processes• Task 2: “Get this* out to the SAEs.”, (awaiting further

instructions from DASD (SE) – some possibilities listed below)

- Periodic self-assessment of programs- Pre- Program Support Reviews (PSR) assessment of

programs- Task 3: Establish collaboration effort with INCOSE SE

Effectiveness Working Group

* The SE Effectiveness Study results (per The Honorary Frank Kendall, USD (AT&L))

Deliverables/Products

• Task 1: Presentation at Annual SE Conference• Task 2: Report out at year-end Planning Meeting• Task 3: TBD

Schedule / Resources

• Task 1: Oct 2014• Task 2: Dec 2014• Task 3: TBD • Task 1 & 2: Assigned liaison from DASD (SE)

office

Issues / Concerns:

• Working agreement with INCOSE SE Effectiveness Working Group