SSE Meeting 8
Held on 17 March 2014 at QinetiQ, London
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Attendees
Peter Mason (chair), Stephen Ashlin, Andrew Farncombe, Rachel Freeman, Theo Tryfonas, John Davies (secretary)
Work to do - revision of Work Plan
Steve A has revised the plan to take into account work being done and the increased awareness of what needs to be done. The activities have been allocated to one of three phases:
Phase 1: Exploration and Ideas
- Define characterisation Variables
- Define Use Case contents
- Create Use Cases
- Search Literature
- Review Characterisation Variables
- Review Use Cases
- Create World Views
Phase 2: Selection and Development
- Analyse Use Cases
- Develop SSE Approaches
Phase 3: Formalisation and Delivery
- Demonstrate SSE Approaches
- Produce Output
Form of Output
There was considerable discussion on what form the outputs will take and potential content. The formats will be as follows:
Z Guide
to cover 'What is Service Systems Engineering?' and identify what is different between standard/traditional Systems Engineering and that needed for Services
Omega Guides
to cover: 'How to do Service Systems Engineering' there may be several Omega guides onefor each aspect of 'what is different' - such as Drivers for move to Services, Value for Stakeholders, Scope, Lifecycle, Accountability/Responsibility/Risk
Review of Cambridge Services Alliance Documents
John D reported on review of papers from the CSA. The papers split down into:
- Overviews:Keynote speeches – current situation and general way forward (6 papers)
- Studies: Single examples of use of services (10 papers)
- Surveys; Looking across many implementations and their effect (8 papers)
- Analysis:Extracting some conclusions from Studies and Surveys (11v papers)
- Techniques and business models:How things could be re-organised (4 papers)
The papers cover the following industrial sectors:
- Manufacturing (19 papers)
- Healthcare (4 papers)
- Aerospace (4 papers)
- Defence (3 papers)
- ICT (3 papers)
- Car rental (2 papers)
And then one paper each on the followinng
- Equipment
- Civil
- Clothing
- Defence
- General
- Construction
- Religion
- Transport
- Utilities
A spreadsheet has been produced which lists the papers, titles, authors, references, precis, together with Degree of Interest, Degree of Maturity and brief on why it is of interest to this work.
Work for next meeting
Communications
This group shares information on their work with the wider membership on a regular basis through a number of channels in a standard, but user-friendly, way. We already have the information needed and Peter M ensures this gets done.
In addition, the group will present to the general audience at ASEC14, the INCOSE UK Annual Symposium in November.
Dates for future meetings:
- Meeting 9: Phone-in – 19 May 2014, 09:00 to 11:00
- Meeting 10: Face to Face – 8th September 2014, QinetiQ London, 11:00 to 15:00
