SSE Meeting 21

INCOSE UK Service Systems Engineering Working Group

Meeting: 19 September 2016, Rolls Royce, Filton, Bristol

Attendees:

• Iain Cardow (RR), Alan Crawford (Babcock), Andrew Farncombe (INCOSE), John Davies (Leeds), Edwin Swidenbank (Harmonic)

Actions from last meeting

• Steve Ashlin to contact James Hillman contact made - hoping to meet at ASEC2016 and next WG meeting.
• John Davies to progress paper for ASEC20016 - done

Discussion

• Follow on from last meeting:
• Systems Approach is needed but
  • Is it enough?
  • Is the same language suitable for Services as for Developing Systems?
  • Are ISO/IEC 15288 and the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook suitable?

• the approach needs to be Through life, over time, end-to-end, and include support of the support system - where the support system is a service.
• Need a broad, coherent solution.
  • At the conceptual stage a Technical Solution is needed, but this needs to be linked to a Financial Solution and Commercial Solution.
  • Similarly at the design stage, Financial and Commercial solutions are needed.
  • The solutions need to be cohesive and compatible - linked.

ASEC2016

Paper

• 12 page paper submitted. Received a good review but not accepted into programme.

Workshop

45min workshop at the conference. John and Edwin to develop.

• Who is involved in providing a Service?
  • Stakeholders and what are their requirements?
  • What about the Financial and Commercial aspects
• How would the Service work?
  • Scenario asking the questions
  • How is it paid for?

Poster

• Base on Case Study Paper.
• Conclusion
  • Systems Approach is needed
  • Needed through-life
  • Commercial and Finance solutions needed

Next Meeting

• tbd Monday 21 November or 5 December 11-00 to 15-00 Babcock, Keynsham.