VALUE BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING THE VALUE ADDED PATH

VALUE BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING THE VALUE ADDED PATH FORWARD Joseph Maley 30 September 2020

What is VBSE? § Value Based System Engineering approach • responds to business process and organizational design needs of the enterprise. § solid, sustainable § incremental and agile, § scales in conformity with established management priorities.

VBSE’s Utility § Realizable path to • a clear picture of enterprise processes that drive the management business objectives. • establishing strategic priorities for meeting enterprise needs. • VBSE drives that strategy. § VBSE is: • scalable • agile • accountable. § VBSE allows measuring and monitoring progress achieving a solid and strategic resource allocation schema.

VBSE’s Utility § VBSE allows shifts in • strategic direction and • resource application § VBSE enables comprehensive and coherent governance of the enterprise’s capabilities.

What Needs Does VBSE Address? § Facilitates meeting organizational needs: • Builds a smooth workflow across fragmented and dispersed processes • Improves and streamlines data gathering and support processes • Captures customer requirements. • Captures enterprise business and mission requirements • Promotes comprehensive data access across common tools • Provides automated data capture processes for complete, accurate and current metrics

GOAL of VBSE § The goal is to move from an incomplete, indistinct (blurred) view of the enterprise business practices to a well defined (in focus) understanding of these practices.

RESULT Process owners can make informed decisions about strategic directions, process improvements and resource allocation.

RESULT § Facilitates the best use of resources to support business practices that are designed and attuned to the furtherance of the enterprise’s mission.

SCOPE § Understanding and integrating the • • current technology, business practices, business rules, procedures and workflow, and human capacity § Tool for real organizational transformation § Culturally positive “pull” pressure (versus a culturally negative “push” pressure) = successful implementation of organizational improvements.

SCOPE § Transform cultural change barriers into change enablers.

SCOPE § Transforms diversity into a means of enriching the enterprise. § Cultivates robust assessment, evaluation and technology planning.

METHOD Three phases: • Iterative Analysis • Model Based Systems Engineering for Value (Value Based) • Implementation

METHOD: Phase 1 § Iterative Analysis • “SIPOC” (Suppliers, Inputs, Processes, Outputs and Customers) oriented interviews • Models are made based on results of interviews • Modeled processes are reviewed with the process owners and/or stakeholders

METHOD: Phase 2 Model Based Systems Engineering for Value (Value Based) • Translate business practice reality into critical design models and requirement specifications. • Accurately capture, analyze, and verify design integrity before problems embed themselves in the system.

Method: Phase 3 Implementation • Improvements are grounded in reality, making them efficient and effective • The requirements create an accurate picture of business practice needs. • Business practice understanding results in a more focused capability development and acquisition. • Requirements are directly traceable to the implemented solutions

Benefits § § § Incremental Intentional Accountable Agile Fast Efficient

VBSE and Best Practice Models § Value Based Systems Engineering leverages the benefits of several best practice models. AGILE Development Six. Sigma

VBSE and Best Practice Models • Bi-directional traceability of requirements • Managing risk with modeling and simulation • People CMMI

VBSE and Best Practice Models Six. Sigma • VBSE arms the Six Sigma effort with just the information needed to attack the improvement problem. • VBSE discipline and mode support and strengthen DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) • VBSE utilizes Six Sigma tools and “best practices; ” such as, owner involvement, aligning improvement efforts with strategic goals, SIPOC, modeling and simulation.

VBSE and Best Practice Models AGILE Development § VBSE and Agile Development stress a responsive, incremental and rapid process leading to flexible and increasing levels of end user (or customer) capability. § VBSE uses incremental spirals developed by knowledgeable implementers § VBSE process is culturally sensitive and uses the natural development of front end buy-in as its cultural strategy

Summary § VBSE is a sound, proven approach to improving the enterprise business practices. § VBSE begins at the level where the business practices “live” and garners cultural acceptance and grounding in business practice reality. § The picture that emerges is accurate and actionable.

Summary § Improvements are identified, made and implemented rapidly. § The process is scalable and provides for measurable accountability. § VBSE enlivens their creativity and fuels their will to innovate and change. § VBSE provides an efficient and effective path forward to a managed and continuously improving enterprise system.