Course description: Creating useful requirements
Audience
Our course in writing useful requirements is suitable for anyone who seeks the basics of requirements and requirements management, and also wants to understand how requirements relate to other elements of systems engineering.
To fully appreciate the course, we recommend some earlier education in systems engineering (e.g. our footPrint course DW101 Systems Engineering Basics) and a few years’ experience of working in a technology-intensive organization.
Outcome
After this course, you will have a fundamental understanding of what you need for creating, analyzing, and maintaining useful requirements. You will also have practiced your skills in requirements formulation and review.
Themes
- Fhat is requirements and how can we use them?
- Different types of requirements
- Define objectives for useful requirements
- Describing requirements using scenarios and models
- Structured formulation of requirements
- Defining effective requirements attributes
- Requirements relations for decomposition, traceability and other sources of information
- Creating a logical structure for your requirements specification
- Requirements specification in the specification tree
- Requirements prioritization, analysis, and requirements management in practice
- Reviewing and understanding requirements
More about Engineering Decision Making
Audience
This course targets anyone with a basic understanding for system and product development that seeks a deeper understanding of how engineering decision making can be used as for product planning or product creation.
Outcome
After the course, you will have obtained a better understanding for how engineering decisions and decision making relates to other development activities. You will also learn and practice simple but useful methods for decision support.
Themes
- What is engineering decision making?
- Design decisions and concept selection
- The decision making process
- Decisions during the development lifecycle
- Decisions in product planning
- The engineer as decision maker
More about Systems Enginering Basics
Audience
Systems engineering basics is suitable for everyone seeking an overall orientation on System Engineering. It is also a good first step to learn a lot more; perhaps as a starting point for your internal competence development program. The course is also a good brief recap or inspiration source for managers.
Outcome
After the course, you will have a fundamental understanding for terms and notions that are central for applying systems engineering in technology intensive organizations. You will also obtain an understanding how a development lifecycle works and how it can be adapted to your needs.
Course description: Systems Integration Fundamentals
Audience
Our nextStep course in systems integration targets anyone who seeks a better understanding for the role of systems integration in the development lifecycle, and would like to learn how integration activities can be planned or lead in practice.
To fully appreciate the course, we recommend some earlier education in systems engineering (e.g. our footPrint course DW101 Systems Engineering Basics) and a few years’ experience of working in a technology-intensive organization.
Outcome
In the course, you will build an understanding for systems integration activities as a part of the development lifecycle and as a part of systems engineering in general. You will also learn how to create an integration strategy and how to align it with an integration architecture that helps you to keep an eye on your key risks and success factors.
Themes
- Why do we integrate systems?
- Integration and design in symbiosis
- Defining an integration strategy
- Integration of interfaces, functions, characteristics, and physical elements
- The integration lifecycle
- Selecting an effective integration methodology
- Creating an integration architecture
- Describing and managing interfaces
- Integration in practice: Planning, leading, and executing and following up
- Where to learn more about integration?
Description: Systems Enginering Management
Audience
Our nextStep course in applied systems engineering management targets anyone who seeks to understand the fundamentals of planning and leading technology-intensive projects or development organizations.
To fully appreciate the course, we recommend some earlier education in systems engineering (e.g. our footPrint course DW101 Systems Engineering Basics) and a few years’ experience of working in a technology-intensive organization.
Outcome
After this course, you will have a deeper understanding for how a development lifecycle can be adapted to a development project or a product organization. You will also obtain knowledge and awareness regarding fundamental tools and techniques to plan, lead, and follow-up technology-intensive activities.
Themes
- Fundamentals of systems engineering management and technical leadership
- Leading technology-intensive project, product and development organisations
- Finding the right balance between planning, leading, doing, and following-up
- Communication in technology-intensive operations
- Introducing engineering management decision-making
- Systems architecture as a tool for technical leadership and product planning
- Create the right product and development lifecycle for You!
- Hammer out a Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP)
- Towards a better leadership in technology-intensive organization