Product Development & Systems Engineering (INCOSE / 15288)

This lesson will introduce you to the purpose and scope of systems engineering and the overall system lifecycle for a product or system.

This lesson provides a definition of what we mean when we use the word "system".

This lesson will introduce you to the concept of hierarchies and a tiered, or top-down architecture.

This lesson will introduce you to how to determine and set up your system boundaries and creating the context diagram to express how your system interacts with the outside world.

This lesson will introduce you to system domains - where we can capture and organize the elements of our system as they are created.

This lesson will introduce you to the key players in product development: system users and stakeholders.

This lesson will expand on the concepts of system boundaries and interfaces, emphasizing how we can identify, define and manage them.

This lesson will give you an overview of what systems engineering is and the activities that take place as a part of performing systems engineering.

This lesson briefly reviews the various systems engineering models and methods you may encounter on your adventures as a product developer.

This lesson introduces you to the concept of "systems thinking" - or in other words, "thinking about the big picture". The great thing about applying systems thinking is that it can be applied to almost any real world scenario - not just product development.

This lesson will briefly cover the origins of systems engineering and how it has changed over the years.

The final lesson in this section will cover who a systems engineer is, their roles and responsibilities as well as typical career progressions of systems engineers.

In this lesson, we will provide an overview of the general product life cycle.

This lesson will cover the periodic checkpoints we perform as we progress through a product's life cycle. Major checkpoints are called milestones, while the more minor detailed checkpoints are called gate reviews.

This lesson will provide a brief introduction to the first life cycle stage: the concept stage.

This lesson will provide a brief introduction to the second life cycle stage: the development stage.

This lesson will provide a brief introduction to the third life cycle stage: the production stage.

This lesson will provide a brief introduction to the fourth life cycle stage: the Utilization stage. This stage takes place at the same time as the Support Stage.

This lesson will provide a brief introduction to the fifth life cycle stage: the support stage. This stage takes place at the same time as the utilization stage.

This lesson will provide a brief introduction to the final life cycle stage: the retirement stage.

This lesson will cover some of the more popular life cycles, their commonalities and their differences.

In this lesson, you will be introduced to the critical topic: technical processes.

In this lesson, you will learn about the first technical process - the Business and mission analysis process.

In this lesson, you will learn about the operational concept - which is a document that describes how your product will perform its missions. This document is later used as a springboard to creating your functional domain and many requirements can be pulled from this document.

In this lesson, you will learn about the apex of your product's requirements: The mission need statement.

In this lesson, you will learn how to capture and document stakeholder requirements.

In this lesson, we will add more fidelity and information to the concept of the operational life cycle.

In this lesson, you will learn about how to define the requirements that describe the product you will develop.

In this lesson, you will learn more about how to define and capture requirements for your product.

In this lesson, you will learn more about the document that contains your product's requirements: The System Requirements Specification (SyRS).

In this lesson, you will learn more about the requirements domain.

In this lesson, you will learn about the different types of requirements you will be writing that will describe your product properly and accurately.

In this lesson, you will learn about how to expand your requirements into a complete set by using derivation, allocation and flow down.

In this lesson, you will gain one of the most important skills you can have as a systems engineer: how to actually WRITE your requirement statements so that you are able to accurately describe the product you want to build.
Finally, print and use the INCOSE requirements writing guide to supplement this lesson.

In this lesson, you will learn how to define your product's architecture.

In this lesson, you will learn what architectures are and how they are useful.

In this video, you will be introduced to Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), which is in opposition to old-school paper-based systems engineering or product development.

In this lesson, you will learn two of the most commonly used system modeling languages: SysML and UML.

In this lesson, you will start learning about the second domain - the behavioral domain - and how to use analysis to think about the functions your product needs to perform.

In this lesson, you will learn about one of the most powerful tools you can use to define your behavioral domain: use cases.

In this lesson, you will learn how to construct your behavioral domain.

In this lesson, you will learn how to construct and validate the physical domain for your product.

In this lesson, you will learn how to begin actually DESIGNING your product, using the artifacts that you have created up to this point.

Once you have defined your system concept and captured it in your specifications, you will be hiring one or more developers to design, construct and test your product. In this lesson, you will learn about this process: solicitations, proposals and development contracts.

In this lesson, you will learn about how to analyze and assess the maturity level of the segments within your product. Knowing this, you will be able to judge the risk level of your development effort AND you will know where to apply more effort when developing your system.

In this lesson, you will learn more about defining your product's design and implementing (constructing) the segments within your system.

In this lesson, you will learn about the general system analysis process, which is applied at all times throughout the life cycle of your product.

In this lesson, you will learn about the construction of the various segments within your system - also known as implementation.

Once you have at least two segments constructed (implemented), you may want to connect them and see if they work together - something we call integration. In this lesson, you will learn about the integration process.

In this lesson, we will expand upon the integration process and learn about the principles and best practices of integrating system elements.

In this lesson, you will learn about how you can test and evaluate the performance of your product against the requirements you wrote about earlier in the product's life - something we call verification.

In this lesson, you will learn more about the principles of verification testing.

In this lesson, you will be introduced to the process of producing or manufacturing your product.

In this lesson you will learn about low rate and full rate production.

In this lesson, you will be introduced to transitioning your product into the marketplace or field where it will be purchased and used by the users in the defined operational environment.

In this lesson, you will learn about how you can test and evaluate the performance of your product against users expectations in the operational environment, something we call validation.

In this lesson, you will learn more about the principles of product validation.

In this lesson, you will learn what you need to be doing as your products are being used by users in the operational environment.

In this lesson, you will learn what you need to be doing to help prepare for and provide support as your products are being maintained in the field.

In this lesson, you will learn more about product transition, operations and maintenance.

In this closing lesson, you will learn what you need to do to prepare for and support the retirement and disposal of your product(s).

In this lesson, you will learn about how to PLAN your product development effort, from a technical perspective (vs project management, cost, schedule, HR perspective, etc).

In this lesson, you will learn about the document that captures how you will manage the technical portion of your product development project. This document is typically called the technical strategy, technical management plan or the systems engineering management plan (SEMP).

In this lesson, you will learn how to form the foundation for you project: the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

In this lesson, you will learn how to measure how well your project is performing, by using the project assessment process.

In this lesson, you will be getting an overview of how we make important decisions during a product development effort by employing the decision management process.

In this lesson, we will elaborate in detail how to perform decision analysis, or trade studies.

In this lesson, we will walk through, step by step, an actual trade study.

In this lesson, you will be introduced to the principles of risk management and how to apply them to your product development project.

In this lesson, we will dive deeper into how to identify, assess, capture and treat the risks that may cause harm to your product development effort.

In this lesson, you will learn about how to capture and manage changes as they occur throughout product development.

In this lesson, you will learn how to capture, disseminate and store information for your product development effort.

In this lesson, you will learn about how to come up with the measures you will need to know if you are on the right track or not.

In this lesson, you will be introduced to the concept of quality assurance.

In this lesson, we will introduce you to the general process used for buying and/or selling products or services.

In this lesson, you will learn about the process used to buy products and/or services from a company outside of your organization.

In this lesson, you will learn about the process used to provide, or sell products and/or services to an outside organization.

In this lesson, you will learn about how your organization might use and tailor life cycle models across various projects.

Your product does not simply pop into existence on its own. Its development, production and support depend on using various resources - tools, people, skills, facilities, networks, training, etc. In this lesson, you will learn about managing the infrastructure required to enable the success of your product.

In this lesson, you will learn how an organization can organize and manage multiple projects - or portfolio of projects.

In this lesson, you will learn about managing the people required to enable the development of products within the organization.

In this lesson, you will learn how to capture, store, disseminate and archive the knowledge and experiences your team gains as they develop complex systems.

In this lesson, you will be introduced to process tailoring in general.

In this lesson, you will learn about software development in a Systems Engineering framework.

In this lesson, you will be introduced to the topic of prototyping, which plays a critical role throughout the entire life of your product.

In this lesson, you will learn about Integrated Product Development (IPD) team structures and how to apply them in your organization.

In this lesson, you will be introduced to the concept of applying Lean Principles to your product development efforts.

In this lesson, you will be introduced to applying Agile Principles to your product development efforts. In addition, you also learn about a specific 'type' of highly adaptable, or agile, system.