Overview
A standards-focused course on applying the ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 life-cycle process framework to acquisition and system projects, from conception to retirement, including tailoring.
About this course
A standards-focused systems engineering course on using ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 (systems and software engineering — system life cycle processes) for acquisition and system projects. It covers the standard's agreement, organisational project-enabling, technical management and technical processes across the full lifecycle, their concurrent, iterative and recursive application, and tailoring to project characteristics, with supporting material on systems thinking and an introduction to MBSE and SysML.
Facilitators
Facilitator not identified in public sources checked.
Modeling language, method and software
- Modeling language
- SysML (version not confirmed; ask the provider)
One module of this two-day ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 workshop introduces MBSE and SysML. No software is named.
As stated on the provider's course page, checked 11 October 2026. Confirm the language version and software edition with the provider before booking.
Who should attend
- System and software engineers, project managers and enterprise architects
- QA, reliability, safety and V&V staff involved in system development
Learning outcomes
- Understand the fundamentals and principles of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288.
- Apply ISO 15288 concepts to systems engineering projects.
- Plan and execute systems engineering processes consistent with the standard.
- Identify areas for process improvement.
- Communicate with stakeholders using ISO 15288 terminology.
Course outline
- 01
Foundations of systems and software engineering
- 02
Applying the systems approach
Including systems thinking.
- 03
Systems engineering and management
Lifecycle processes, technical management and specialty disciplines.
- 04
Foundations of MBSE and SysML
- 05
Foundation of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288
Agreement, organisational project-enabling, technical management and technical processes.
- 06
Tailoring ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288
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