About this course
An intensive, exercise-based course on applying a systems approach to the design of new systems, whether product, service or process based. Participants work through a case study from stakeholder identification and requirements gathering, through requirements analysis and specification, to concept generation and selection, robust design, and verification and validation.
The course is delivered in-house, face to face or online, for up to 20 participants, and can be tailored to an organisation's lifecycle and review processes.
Facilitators
Facilitator not identified in public sources checked.
Who should attend
- Personnel involved in introducing and supporting complex systems
- People who practise, or want to practise, a systems approach to system design
Learning outcomes
- Understand the principles of systems thinking and how they apply to creating a new system.
- Identify stakeholders and gather their requirements.
- Analyse stakeholder requirements and translate them into measurable technical system requirements.
- Generate and down-select alternative system concepts and architectures.
- Understand the principles of robust design and the systems approach to verification and validation.
Course outline
- 01
Why systems engineering; systems thinking conceptsDay 1
- 02
Gathering requirementsDay 2
Stakeholder maps · Affinity diagrams · Personas · Use cases · Voice of the customer
- 03
Analysing requirementsDay 3
Systemic textual analysis · Viewpoint analysis
- 04
Specifying and designing the systemDays 4–5
Quality function deployment · Pugh matrix concept selection · Robust design and design of experiments
Training areas
Related discipline: Systems Thinking & Complexity
Foundations & practitioner development
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Course presenters may include: Robert Halligan, John Fitch, Richard Beasley
Foundation1 day
- Access
- Public enrolment · Private / corporate
- Delivery
- Face-to-face · Live online
Foundations & practitioner development
Scarecrow Consultants
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Course facilitators may include: Jessica Korzeniowska
Foundation3 days
- Regions
- United Kingdom
- Access
- Public enrolment · Private / corporate
- Delivery
- Face-to-face · Live online
Technical management
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- Regions
- United Kingdom