SSE Meeting 38

Attendees

John Davies, Iain Cardow, Andrew Farncombe, Sarwar Ahmad.

New INCOSE UK Website

There had been problems with the introduction of the new site. The most serious was setting up the meeting and bookings. These should not be cleared. The opportunity has been taken to update the standard information about the SSE Working Group.

New management functions

The new website allows the group admin to:

• Send emails out to all members of the group - replacing the e-mailer system that had to go via dot-the-eye
• Send emails to a closed list of people who are not members of the group
• post and remove documents linked to the website
• provide a 'discussion' facility for members to discuss issues/ make people aware of items etc.
• Set up and manage Members and Administrators

General feedback

There is not a lot different in terms of functionality for members, but it should make the admin easier. The Data Protection is improved.

Relationship of SSE to MBSE

• The Relationship of Service Systems Engineering with Model Based Systems Engineering =was discussed at the last two meetings. It was decided to talk to/work with members of the MBSE Working Group but this has not happened. Mostly due to priorities and pressures of 'day jobs'

• The relationship between the two can be understood as MBSE having a formal framework and tool support for the system requirements, design and testing, and SSE covering all aspects of systems provided by services.

• The Ontology for Service Systems need to be developed and understood.

• The work done on Definitions for Services and the relationships between these definitions is not the same as the Ontology needed for MBSL, but is still an important aspect of the SSE work.

Date of next meeting

6th April 2020, Filton 10-30 to 14-30