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The Navitect “Five Pillars” Systems Engineering workshop series.

A hands-on workshop series demonstrating how Systems Engineering can be applied effectively in practice to significantly improve project outcomes.

Spanning strategy and delivery, from establishing the business case and enabling organisational adoption at leadership level, through to integrated, coherent execution within project teams operating in complex and uncertain environments.

Aligned with ISO 15288:2023, INCOSE guidance, and best practices. Tailored for small and medium organisations seeking effective delivery without the burden of bureaucracy or process overhead.

All workshops are delivered by Earle Jamieson, Navitect founder, in-person or online.

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Systems Engineering Core Concepts (Practitioner I)

Audience: Project teams

Duration: 4 hours

Summary: Foundational Systems Engineering concepts and methods, equipping project teams with a shared technical language and practical tools for analysing, designing, and delivering complex systems across the lifecycle.

  • Background

    • Project success/failure statistics

    • Symptoms vs causes of project failure

    • The three saboteurs of innovation

    • Complexity, uncertainty, risk

  • SE Foundations

    • What is a System?

    • What is Systems Engineering

    • ‘Left-shifting’ and the benefits of good SE

    • ‘Right-Sized Systems Engineering’

    • Principles of Systems Engineering

    • The SE V-model

    • Key resources/references

    • Team exercise (SWOT)

  • ISO 15288: System lifecycle processes

    • System Analysis/modelling & SysML; Business/Mission Analysis; Stakeholder Needs and Requirements Definition; System Requirements Definition; System Architecture Definition; Design Definition; Implementation; Integration; Verification; Transition; Validation; Operation; Maintenance; Disposal.

Workshop topics

  • Regulatory and Standards Analysis (methods)

  • Safety Risk Analyses (SHA, FTA, *FMEA)

  • Practical (hypothetical example - H2Oh!)

    • Business Analysis

    • System lifecycle analysis & operational concept

    • Functional analysis

    • Stakeholder Needs & Requirements Definition (Use Case analysis & derivation)

    • System Requirements Definition

    • System Architecture Definition (context & interface definition)

    • Functional and structural decomposition

    • Safety risk analysis & tracing to requirements

    • Design, Implementation, & Unit Testing

    • System Integration & verification

    • System validation

    • Summary: technical data pack (technical file)

  • Summary & closing reflections

Systems Engineering Management
(Practitioner II)

Audience: Project teams

Duration: 4 hours

Summary: This hands-on workshop introduces practical Systems Engineering Management concepts and processes, equipping project teams to plan, control, and coordinate complex technical work across the product lifecycle.

  • Background

    • Measures and evidence of success

    • The challenge of coherence

    • What is Systems Engineering Management?

    • Roles and responsibilities

  • ISO 15288: Technical Management Processes

    • Project planning (includes SEMP)

    • Project Assessment and Control

    • Decision Management

    • Risk Management

    • Configuration management

    • Information management

    • Measurement

    • Quality assurance

  • SEM foundational concepts

    • Technology readiness levels (TRLs)

    • Lifecycle stages

    • Lifecycle processes

    • Technical data pack

    • Design reviews across the lifecycle

    • Technical baselines

    • CI & non-CI

    • Engineering change management

    • Traceability

Workshop topics

  • Practical (hypothetical example - H2Oh!)

    • Part 1: opportunity definition: Business case, operational concept, needs, architecture (initial)

    • Part 2: defining the technical approach (SEMP): Technical risk management, lifecycle model, design reviews & baselines, technical data & schedule, system builds, work breakdown, config & change management; Roles and responsibilities

    • Part 3: Implementing the plan (agile/adaptive): SOW1-5 key findings & reviews; Engineering change proposals

  • Summary & closing reflections

Agile Systems Engineering (Practitioner III)

Audience: Project teams

Duration: 2 hours

Summary: This hands-on workshop applies Agile principles in Systems Engineering to enable continuous learning and delivery without sacrificing system coherence in complex hardware-software projects.

  • Background

    • Delivery approaches & evolution

    • What is Agile?

    • The Agile Manifesto

    • Agile Methodologies

    • The challenge of Agile in cyber-physical systems

    • ISO 15288: concurrency, iteration, and recursion

    • The V-model in an Agile context

  • Aspects of agility in SE

    • Adaptable modular architectures

    • Iterative incremental development

    • Attentive situational awareness

    • Attentive decision making

    • Common-mission teaming

    • Shared knowledge management

    • Continual integration and test

    • Being Agile – Operations concept

  • The Spectrum of Agile

Workshop topics

  • Agile SE frameworks

    • Agile SE lifecycle model framework

    • Incremental commitment spiral model (ICSM)

  • Iterations across SE and engineering domains

  • Practical (hypothetical example - H2Oh!)

    • Areas of uncertainty and risk

    • Defined subsystems and stable, known interfaces

    • Continuous system definition, build, & evaluation

    • Integrated lifecycle monitoring and evaluation

  • Summary and closing reflections

Enabling Systems Engineering in Your Organisation

Audience: Leadership & management

Duration: 1 hour

Summary: This workshop draws on published INCOSE ESEIO Working Group research to provide a structured approach for assessing organisational readiness for Systems Engineering and enabling its sustained adoption.

  • What is systems engineering and why should we care?

  • Overview: INCOSE Embedding Systems Engineering Into Organisations (ESEIO) Working Group

  • The challenge of getting SE to work: the 7 Problem Areas of embedding SE

  • Dynamic relationships among Problem Areas

  • Organisational “Readiness Areas” for effective SE

  • The ESEIO Five-Step Method

  • Static SE Readiness Assessment

  • Causal mapping of readiness interactions

  • Intervention hypothesis formulation

  • Experimentation and learning

  • Ongoing monitoring and adaptation

  • Summary and Closing Reflections

Workshop topics

The Business Case for Systems Engineering

Audience: Executives, C‑suite, senior leadership

Duration: 30 minutes (briefing)

Summary: An evidence-based briefing on how Systems Engineering can significantly improve outcomes in complex product development initiatives.

  • Project success and failure statistics

  • Symptoms and causes of project failure

  • The three saboteurs of innovation

  • What is systems engineering?

  • The business case for systems engineering

  • Complexity, risk, and uncertainty

  • Left-shifting in product development

  • Right-sized Systems Engineering

  • The compelling benefits of good Systems Engineering

  • Summary and closing reflections

Workshop topics

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