2021-11-17: Lessons Learned from the NSOSA Architecture Study (Maier)

Dr. Mark W. Maier, a Technical Fellow at The Aerospace Corporation, discusses the major lessons learned from conducting a large scale study of its next generation weather satellite constellation architecture. Among the topics discussed are the selection and primacy of value models, the concept of architectures as classes of system alternative, and variance as a measure of significance.

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2021-09-15: The Invisible Matters: How PM and SE Teamed to Build the world’s Largest IceCube (Illiff)

Randall C. Iliff explains how the South Pole is now home to IceCube, the world’s largest and arguably most unusual telescope. Randy shares a true insider’s view of how the power of Program Management and Systems Engineering, working together in a process uniquely tailored for IceCube, enabled all of this to happen. It truly was a rare opportunity to observe the logic, tailoring strategy, and artifacts from one of the most remarkable development programs ever to take place.

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2021-08-18: Systems Engineers ... Where do we fit in an Agile Environment?(Luckey)

Peter Luckey, a Senior Solutions Consultant at 321 Gang,explains how Systems Engineers play an important role in the execution of Agile development and even more so with the application of SAFe processes. Peter provided how the application of various SE workshops within the SAFe framework accomplish the Systems Engineering that needs to be done in large scale agile development efforts.

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