SSE Meeting 19

INCOSE UK Service Systems Engineering Working Group

Meeting: 7 March 2016, QinetiQ, Farnborough

Attendees:

• Steve Ashlin, Alan Crawford, Andrew Farncombe, John Davies, Phil Stott (Thales)
• Iain Cardow and Peter Mason by conference phone.

Status of IS2016 paper

• Submission 'Understanding Services: Understanding Stakeholders' has been accepted as paper 54.
• Six reviewers made recommendations - 2 strong accept, 2 accept, 1 weak accept, 1 marginal.
• 14 detailed comments have been dealt with - most have improved the paper.
• Figure 2 has been replaced as John Wiley (publisher) would charge £200 to copy a similar diagram from another paper
• Figure 4 has been added (from the presentation slides) to illustrate an example Service Oriented Architecture and text suitably amended..
• 'Conclusions' has been re-written and some words moved to 'Future Work'
• Paper is now the recommended/required 15 pages

Actions all authors to:

• final review and send comments to John by 14 May
• complete release form and send to John by 25May

Presentation at Local Meeting in Bristol

Iain reported on the meeting at which he presented.

• General interest shown, including from people working in NHS and Thales. Hence Phil attending this meeting.
• Particular interest in the Definitions Map and discussion on the Services views in NAF v4.0.

Service views in NAF v4.0 draft

These were run through and discussed.

• Some of the views are missing information.
• There is some overlap with the current output of our work but NAF does not cover the full range of our work.

Actions for next meeting

• Steve Ashlin to contact James Hillman again to invite him to next meeting. Depending on availability, this could change the location of the next meeting.
• All to review IBM Service Science community website
• All to apply existing knowledge to engineering Services defined in case studies
• All to review NAF 4.0 draft for Service Views.

Next Meeting

• Monday 6 June 11-00 to 15-00 Rolls Royce, Filton.