Topic: “A Common Sense Framework for Effective Data Management and Integration”
Presenter: Doug Whall

Description: This lively, informative, and interactive tutorial on effective data management and integration methods, tools, and technology will enable participants to guide their organization’s efforts to improve their data governance, data architecture, data quality, data discovery, data modeling, data standards, master data management, and use of rapidly evolving technologies such as web services, SOA, XML, and cloud computing. All of these concepts will be presented as part of an integrated framework modeled after the Data Management Association’s DMBOK (Data
Management Body of Knowledge).

This tutorial will address the following topics:
-The Data Management and Integration Challenges of Large Organizations
-Applying a Data Management Framework
-Lessons Learned in Data Architecture and Governance
-Technology Impacts on Data – Web Services, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Tools
-Challenges of Data Discovery and Data Access and Data Protection
-How Data Modeling and Data Standards Have Affected Data Integration and Management
-Strategies for Managing the Impacts of Social Media, End-User Control, and the Increased Rate of Change
-Improving Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Quality

About the Presenter: Doug Whall has over 30 years of experience while focusing on the development and use of large data repositories and advanced software systems. He has been supporting the US intelligence community’s efforts to integrate its data in order to make data, systems, and
expertise more discoverable, accessible, trusted, and managed. His primary roles have been as a senior information technology architect and manager with a heavy emphasis in enterprise level data, software, and systems engineering methods, tools, environments and projects.
Doug consults and trains large software development projects on at over 200 projects at organizations such as AT&T, Motorola, E-Systems, etc. to help them successfully introduce CASE tools and software engineering methods (e.g. requirements management, joint application design (JAD), structured analysis and design for real time systems, object oriented analysis and design). He has helped
organizations identify appropriate systems engineering methods and tools tailored to each project based on a framework for evaluating the factors that affect the success or failure of new methods and tools.

Location: MITRE Room 1H300- 7525 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA 22101

Cost: $60 includes lunch (50% discount for student members of INCOSE chapters)

Developing large and complex systems continues to be a significant challenge for today’s systems engineers and integrators. This tutorial suggests some new ways of thinking that could lead to improvements in how systems engineering and integration are carried out. Nine new perspectives are set forth for “thinking outside the box”. Examples are provided for each along with a discussion of their potential benefits. In addition, thinking in groups as well as historical thinking suggestions are examined. A summary provides an overview of the suggested notions that represent departures from mainstream approaches.

Primary Objectives:

n  Convey nine specific approaches for “thinking outside the box”

n  Examine implications and examples of carrying out the above approaches

n  Make available key information that the participants can use immediately as practicing systems engineers and integrators

n  Provide exercises for participants to work with and reinforce concepts

Experience Level Suggested:

Bachelor’s degree and at least two years as a working engineer, scientist or mathematician

Instructor: Howard Eisner, Ph.D.

Dr. Howard Eisner joined The George Washington University (GWU) in 1989 after 30 years in industry as a research engineer, manager and president of two systems engineering companies (Intercon Systems Corporation and the Atlantic Research Services Company). He has written five books on systems engineering, management, and related topics. He currently serves as Distinguished Research Professor and Professor in the Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Department at GWU. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of INCOSE and the New York Academy of Sciences. He holds the following degrees: BEE, City College of New York, 1957; MS, Columbia University, 1958; Doctor of Science, The George Washington University, 1966

Instructor: Brian E. White, Ph.D., CAU<-SES

Date: Saturday, August 27, 2011

Time: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm

Location: MITRE 1 Facility Room 1H300 – 7525 Colshire Drive McLean, VA 22102

Cost: $95 per attendee includes lunch

Experience Level: This tutorial is geared to those who have worked in systems engineering or a closely related discipline for at least  3 years and are interested alternative perspectives for solving our most difficult problems.

Note: This tutorial was offered at the INCOSE Symposium in Denver.

Abstract:

Systems engineering (SE) activity in System of Systems (SoS), Enterprise Systems Engineering (ESE), and Complex Systems Engineering (CSE) continues to increase. There is controversy as to how well conventional methods of SE are able to handle our most difficult complex systems problems, and whether new ways of systems thinking will help. This tutorial will:

1) explain and give examples of complex systems and CSE;

2) review related definitions and terminology;

3) present CSE principles to create mindsets that will accelerate progress in your application domains;

4) provide tools for characterizing SE environments and what is being done about it;

5) suggest a methodology for CSE.

Teamed class exercises will stimulate creative thought and interactions among participants. The presentation materials and accompanying discussions should deepen our understanding of SE and better prepare us for future SE endeavors

Instructor Biography

Brian E. White received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin, and S.M. and S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. He served in the U. S. Air Force, and for 8 years was at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory. For 5 years Dr. White was a principal engineering manager at Signatron, Inc. In his 28 years at The MITRE Corporation, he held a variety of senior professional staff and project/resource management positions. He was Director of MITRE’s Systems Engineering Process Office, 2003-2009. Dr. White left MITRE in July, 2010, to offer a consulting service, CAUßSES (“Complexity Are Us” ß Systems Engineering Strategies

Location: Brio Tuscan Grille, 7854L Tysons Corner Center, McLean, VA 22102

Cost: $65 per attendee.  Lunch is included.

Tutorial Abstract

Though models and modeling techniques have always played a key role in systems engineering, model-based has now become the hot topic in systems engineering. Organizations are investing heavily in developing new representations, standards, methodologies, and technologies to transform the practice of systems engineering through model-driven paradigms. As we look at the landscape today and the roadmap tomorrow, projects and practitioners are striving to make sense of this movement – What does MBSE mean? What would it take to realign our practices? What return on investment will it deliver, now and in the future?  Assessing the state of systems engineering, the needs of our customers, technology and environmental trends, we will look at what model-based systems engineering is and is not. Most importantly, we will identify opportunities, enablers, obstacles, and threats that will help determine if model-based systems engineering will ultimately transform systems engineering or simply be the next failed silver bullet.

The tutorial will cover the following topics:

MBSE Domains: Requirements, behavior, architecture, and verification and validation

MBSE Systems:  In order to be understood the systems must be managed in three settings: the system being designed to solve the problem at hand, the system in which the problem arose and the solution will operate, and the system being used to solve the problem.

MBSE Approaches: Analytically as a set of functioning parts and synthetically as a whole whose capabilities exceed the mere sum of the capabilities of those parts.

MBSE Key Concept: In order to understand the system we must not only understand the pieces and parts of the systems affected but we must understand the relationships and interactions among them.

This tutorial will be presented by Vitech Corporation’s Vice President of Professional Services, Zane Scott, will cover the topic of Model Based Systems Engineering from a business process perspective. Zane will approach MBSE as a powerful problem solving tool capable of tackling not only technical designs but process improvement and change management problems.  Using the “four, three, two, one” framework we will explore the basic MBSE concepts as applied to practical problem solving.

Presenter

Mr. Zane Scott is the Vice President of Professional Services for Vitech Corporation where he leads the consulting services. He received a BA in Economics from Virginia Tech in 1977 and a JD from the University of Tennessee in 1981. He also did graduate study in Counseling at Virginia Tech and in Business Management at the University of Tennessee. For more than six years immediately prior to joining Vitech he worked on DoD contracts analyzing and improving processes and applying best practice models (e.g.- CMMI, Lean Six Sigma) using MBSE and Vitech’s CORE® to provide the modeling support. Zane has taught in a variety of disciplines in college and professional classes. He practiced law for 18 years focusing on litigation in private and public positions which included governmental regulatory practice at the Federal, State and local levels. He speaks often on communication and conflict management.

Date/Time: March 23 from 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.

Location: MITRE facility in McLean/Tysons Corner

Abstract:

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a paradigm for organizing and utilizing distributed capabilities that may be under the control of different ownership domains. This briefing presents the engineering principles that define this paradigm, and address the impact on the development of modern information systems. Through lectures and exercises, students will gain an understanding of the SOA paradigm, experience in applying this paradigm to the creation of a fictitious enterprise information system of systems, and gain an appreciation of current open issues within this domain.

Biography:

Dr. Laskey is a Lead Engineer in the Information Discovery and Understanding (IDU) department, at the MITRE Corporation. He is currently supporting several Department of Defense and Intelligence Community projects investigating the applicability and use of service oriented architecture and the opportunities to employ advanced semantics to enable SOA capabilities in discovery and service interaction. Dr. Laskey is one of the editors of the OASIS SOA Reference Model and is an elected member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Advisory Board.

Chris Bashioum is a Lead Multi-Discipline System Engineer in the Recon Mission & Technology department, at the MITRE Corporation where he works extensively on projects related to Service Oriented Architectures. His 15 years experience in IT spans the government and commercial sectors, and focused on software development and product management. Prior to joining MITRE, he was a software development manager at a company providing managed services related to import and export compliance. Since re-joining MITRE in 2004, he has participated in projects doing case studies, enterprise architectures, policy guidance, standards development, organizational guidance, technical guidance, evangelization and training related to SOA.

Mr. Bashioum holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Applied Mathematics from George Mason University and a Master of Science Degree in Environmental Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University, and is currently a member of the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee.

Time:11:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Location:
Brio Tuscan Grille
Tysons Corner Mall
7854L Tysons Corner Center
McLean, VA 22102
703.288.8882

Author Biography:
Steven H. Dam, Ph.D. Dr. Dam is the President and Founder of the Systems and Proposal Engineering Company (SPEC Innovations), based in Marshall, VA. He has been involved with structured analysis, software development, and system engineering for over 30 years. He participated in the development of C4ISR Architecture Framework and DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF), the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO) Vision Architecture, the Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA), and Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) architecture. He currently is applying system engineering techniques to various DoD projects.

Dr. Dam has been a member of INCOSE since the early 1990s. He has presented papers at numerous Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA) meetings and national symposiums. He is also a past president of the San Diego INCOSE chapter and current President of the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA) Chapter.

Dr. Dam is the author of two systems engineering-based books: “DoD Architecture Framework: A Guide to Applying System Engineering to Develop Integrated, Executable Architectures;” and “Proposal Engineering: A Guide to Developing Winning, Cost-Effective Proposals.” He was a contributor to the DoD/NASA-sponsored text book entitled “Applied Space Systems Engineering.” Dr. Dam is currently completing his third book entitled “Knowledge-Based Analysis and Design (KBAD) – A Methodology for Rapid, Cost-Effective System Engineering and Architecture Development.” Dr. Dam has a BS degree in Physics from George Mason University and a PhD. in Physics from the University of South Carolina.

Cost:
Cost for the tutorial (includes lunch) is $75 for members, $95 non-members, $45 part-time students and $35 for full-time students. Reservations are strongly encouraged.