This webinar discusses how program management and systems engineering can better integrate to improve program success. It introduces Innoslate, a tool that supports this integration. The webinar agenda includes explaining common causes of program failure, distinguishing the roles of program management and systems engineering, and how a middle-out approach can make these functions more agile. The presentation demonstrates how Innoslate uses an integrated ontology and various modeling and simulation capabilities to facilitate collaboration between program management and systems engineering.

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2. Ask Us Your Questions
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-Ask us your questions using the panel
on the right.
-This presentation is being recorded
and will be made available to you on
our website and through email.
-Contact us after the webinar through
● support@Innoslate.com
● Call 571.485.7800
● LinkedIn: “Innoslate Users and
Systems Engineers” Group
● Twitter: @specinnovations
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3. Meet Your Host
• President and Founder of SPEC
Innovations
• Participated in the development of
C4ISR and DoDAF
• Expert Systems Engineering
Professionals Certificate
• steven.dam@specinnovations.com
• @stevenhdam
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4. Agenda
• Why do programs fail?
• What’s the difference between program
management and systems engineering?
• How can systems engineering better support
program management?
• How can program management and systems
engineering become “agile?”
• How does Innoslate support the integration of SE
and PM?
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5. Why Do Programs Fail?
• Programs fail for a variety of reasons, including:
• Projects are not clearly defined at the executive level
• Project implementation plans are not developed within the team
environment
• Insufficient time allotted to planning and systems engineering
• Lack of well-defined processes
• The result of program failure can lead to:
• Huge cost overruns
• Long schedule delays
• Program cancellations
• Loss of life and reputation
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6. What’s the Difference between Program Management and
Systems Engineering?
SE Principles
• Requirements definition
• Accountability
• Iterative decomposition
• Measurements
• Standards-based Control
• Optimization
• Relationships
• Traceability
PM Principles
• Project goals definition
• Accountability
• Work Breakdown
• Metrics
• Project Control
• Corrective Action
• Relationships
• Responsibility
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Both optimize cost, schedule
and performance: one for the
program & the other for the
system

7. How Can Systems Engineering Better Support
Program Management?
• SEs can best support the PM by recognizing their role in program
success
• First job is to develop the requirements needed for the design engineering
• Second job is to support the design engineers in design optimization
• Third job is to support (or conduct) V&V
• But the entire time you also need to support the program manager with
information on the design progress and support the budgetary and
schedule limitations
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8. How Can Program Management and
Systems Engineering become “Agile?”
• A fair amount of work has been done in this area
• What we have found is that our “Middle-Out” process works very
well to shorten the time required to develop the requirements
for the system
• This process depends upon using a robust, data-driven approach
to capturing and analyzing the program and system data
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9. How Can Program Management and
Systems Engineering become “Agile?”
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5. Develop the Operational Context Diagram
6. Develop Operational Scenarios
1. Capture and Analyze Related Artifacts
4. Capture Constraints (Environment/Drivers)
3. Identify Existing/Planned Systems
2. Identify Assumptions
7. Derive Functional Behavior
8. Derive Assets
9. Allocate Actions to Assets
10. Prepare Interface Diagrams
14. Provide Options
12. Perform Dynamic Analysis
11. Define Resources, Error Detection & Recovery
13. Develop Operational Demonstration Master Plan
16. Generate Operational and System Views, Graphics, Briefings and Reports
15. Conduct Trade-off Analyses
Requirements Analysis
Functional Analysis
Synthesis
System Analysis and
Control
Time
Middle-Out
Process
Timeline

10. How Can Program Management and
Systems Engineering become “Agile?”
• Conduct SE activities in parallel with the
software development
• Use normal SE processes and SETR
events to develop the functional
requirements for each Epic
• Use SE processes to develop CONOPS,
conduct monitoring, and V&V the
integrated software products
• Support the software development by
planning and conducting operational
testing and transition to operations
• Suggest using tailored Model-Based
Reviews to conduct SETR events to
minimize cost and schedule impacts
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From Agile SE Processes 204: Agile Systems Engineering Lifecycle Model
Webinar, Rick Dove, 15-Sep-2021

11. How Can Program Management and
Systems Engineering become “Agile?”
• Steps for Model-Based
Reviews
• Capture the evaluation
criteria
• Link to database content
• Setup workflow for reviews
(optional)
• Provide access to reviewers
• Address reviewer comments
and suggested changes
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12. How Does Innoslate Support the
Integration of SE and PM?
• Based on LML, which provides an integrated ontology for PM and SE
• PM Dashboard with Calendar and other widgets
• Kanban Boards
• Gantt Charts
• Process Modeling
• Discrete Event and Monte Carlo Simulations that include cost and
schedule factors
• Risk Matrix and Risk Burndown Charts
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13. Let’s see Innoslate in action!
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Send in questions using the panel on the right.
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15. Thursday, November 16th, 2023 at 2:00 PM ET
Verify & Validate the
System Lifecycle
Mark Your
Calendars
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16. SPEC Innovations
@SPECInnovations
Innoslate Users Group
Innoslate.com/blog
571.485.7800
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