Systems engineering consultant and trainer with more than four decades in engineering, engineering management, consulting and training. PPI Principal Consultant and editor of PPI's Systems Engineering Newsjournal.
John Fitch has more than four decades of engineering, engineering management, consulting and training experience. PPI describes how he introduced systematic decision-making processes into a US defence contractor, trained engineers and managers in them, and later led the deployment of systems engineering processes, tools and training as Systems Engineering Process Owner across military electronics domains including communications, electronic warfare, anti-submarine warfare and command and control.
He has more than 20 years of independent consulting experience focused on decision management, requirements management, risk management, system design and architecture, and product and technology roadmapping. PPI credits him with the Decision Driven® Design methodology and the use of decision patterns for trade-study planning. He has presented papers at INCOSE, IEEE and NDIA conferences and is a member of INCOSE's Crossroads of America chapter.
One-day seminar introducing systems engineering and the business case for it at enterprise, project and technical levels.
Course presenters may include: Robert Halligan, John Fitch, Richard Beasley
Workshop on using AI, especially large language models, for systems engineering tasks such as requirements, architecting, traceability, verification and risk analysis.
Presented by: John Fitch, Francois Retief
Five-day systems-oriented architectural design course covering physical and logical architecture, MBSE, design decision-making, interfaces and design for reliability, safety, maintainability and producibility.
Course presenters may include: John Fitch
Five-day practical requirements engineering workshop covering requirements analysis, quality, specification development, traceability and methods for discovering and correcting requirements defects.
Course presenters may include: Robert Halligan, John Fitch, Paul Davies
Overview of requirements analysis and requirements specification writing: capturing, validating and measuring requirements and structuring them into specifications.
Course presenters may include: Robert Halligan, John Fitch, Paul Davies
Five-day practical systems engineering course covering the lifecycle from problem definition and requirements through architecture, design, integration, verification, validation and engineering management.
Course presenters may include: Robert Halligan, John Fitch, Richard Beasley, Dr Chris Hales, Kartal Cagatay
Overview of systems engineering principles and process elements for people who work alongside systems engineering rather than practise it in depth.
Course presenters may include: Robert Halligan, John Fitch, Richard Beasley, Dr Chris Hales
International systems engineering training and consulting organisation offering professional development for individuals and organisations.