Fall Tutorial: Defining Needs and Requirements for Resilient Systems

in-person: Clicking “Reserve a Spot” here before Oct 29 helps with sizing the catering order. (no need to show a ticket)

9547 Collegeview Road is not a mailing address but makes a good navigational reference, near the Japanese Garden;
between Lot 5 and the south lot off 98th, but not well accessible from either.

Abstract

Resilience is a fairly new topic in SE practice. As a result, most sets of needs and requirements are incomplete in that they do not account for resilience and loss scenarios when the system is faced with some type of adversity and associated stressors. To be complete, depending on the system and possible adversities, needs and requirements concerning detecting adversities and stressors, as well as capabilities involved in avoiding, withstanding, and/or recovering from adversity must be included in the Integrated Set of Needs and resulting set of system Design Input Requirements transformed from those needs that address what the system must do to realize those needs.

When addressing why organizations should be interested in addressing resilience engineering and loss-driven engineering, ask: What system capabilities and assets can the organization or customers NOT afford to lose? and “What is the organization willing to pay to make their systems more resilient to avoid those losses?

This full-day tutorial builds on these concepts in two integrated sessions.

Attendees will leave with both a firm understanding of the underlying concepts and direct, hands-on experience applying a practical methodology — one they can put to use on their own projects the very next day, whether those projects are just getting started, already underway, in active development, or involve existing systems where resilience and loss must to be assessed and strengthened.

Speaker – Fall Tutorial

Lou Wheatcraft is a senior consultant and managing member of Wheatland Consulting, LLC and is an international expert in systems engineering with a focus on needs and requirements development, management, verification, and validation across the system lifecycle. Lou’s goal is to help systems engineers practice better systems engineering from a needs and requirements perspective across all lifecycle stages of system/product development. Getting the needs and requirements right upfront is key to a successful project.

Lou has over 50 years’ experience in systems engineering, including 22 years in the United States Air Force. Lou has taught over 200 requirement seminars over the last 26 years. Lou supports clients from government and industries involved in developing and managing systems and products including aerospace, defense, medical devices, consumer goods, transportation, and energy.

Lou is very active in the INCOSE and is the current co-chair of the Requirements Working Group (RWG). Lou is a principal author of several RWG manuals and guides including the Needs and Requirements Manual (NRM), Guide to Needs and Requirements GtNR), Guide to Verification and Validation (GtVV), and newly released version 4 of the Guide to Writing Requirements (GtWR).

Lou has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University; an MA degree in Computer Information Systems; an MS degree in Environmental Management; and has completed the course work for an MS degree in Studies of the uture from the University of Houston – Clear Lake.