SSE Meeting 14

INCOSE UK Service Systems Engineering Meeting 11 May 2015

Held at QinetiQ, Farnborough.

Attendees

Steve Ashlin, Iain Cardow, Andrew Farncombe, John Davies, Alan Crawford

Plan

Progess against the plan was reviewed. Many activities have been completed up to the point where they are complete but may need to be further work to support later activities. For example Use Cases will be used to test ideas and may require extension such as more work on stakeholder needs. In general progress is being made at the rate expected in the plan.

Literature Review

A Literature Review of papers about Service Engineering was presented and discussed. This is a forerunner for the application of Soft Systems Methodology.

Definitions and the Service Stack

The work on Definitions of Service from respected Sources (MoD, DoD, INCOSE, SeBOK, OpenGroup, etc. was looked at gain and the relationships between definitions used to create a 'Stack' of Services ranging from those within the general infrastructure to the use of specific services by the end-users. This was reviewed against the current understood application of Systems Engineering and areas where it was felt that Systems Engineering was not currently applied identified. What processes methods and tools could be applied in those areas needs to be look at.

ASEC2015 Paper

An abstract for a paper Understanding Services: Understanding Stakeholders has been accepted. The meeting focussed on coontent and arrangement of the papar to be submitted by 1 June. The paper will include listing and discussion of the various definitions of Service, the relationships between those definitions and the stakeholders involved. Use Cases will be used for examples, but not in detail due to the limited size of the paper. (6 pages)