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Digital Engineering Working Group (DEIX WG) - Standards Framework

Overview & Taxonomy Workshop

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INCOSE IW 2023 - DEIXWG Sessions (all times Pacific)

DEIXWG 

Saturday, Jan 28. 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm 

Overview of DEIXWG as a working 

group, structure, and work planned 

for 2023-24 

DE Measurement Framework

Monday, Jan 30. 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Introduce version 1.1 of the Digital 

Engineering Measurement Framework 

and discuss its development. 

DE Standards (DEIX SF)

Sunday, Jan 29. 10:30 am – 12:00 pm 

Overview of the current DEIX Standards work in progress, along with an update on the Digital Engineering Taxonomy. 

Monday, Jan 30. 8:00 am – 10:30 am

Meeting to enlist working members of the group, define a candidate set of 

metrics for version 2, and establish a

roadmap for publication.

DE Guide (DEIX SF - DE Guide)

Monday, Jan 30. 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Review/Introduction of DE Guide 

followed by gathering of thoughts and perspectives on current topics  

Digital Viewpoint Model

(DEIX DVM)

Monday, Jan 30. 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

DVM conceptual overview followed 

by a workshop where participants  

apply DVM concepts to define digital viewpoints given a user story.

Monday, Jan 30. 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Workshop to brainstorm ideas to 

Incorporate into the Digital 

Engineering Guide.

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DE Standards (DEIX SF)

Sunday, Jan 29. 10:30 am – 12:00 pm 

10:30-11:00 Overview

11:00-11:15 Taxonomy Project Plan / Project Description

11:15-11:45 Taxonomy Brainstorming

11:45-noon Discussion and wrap-up

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What is the DEIX WG?

  • Collaboration between the International Council of Systems Engineers (INCOSE), National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (DoD OUSD(R&E))
  • What: The WG supports the strategic objective of accelerating digital engineering adoption and the role of system engineers in this new paradigm.
  • How: The WG investigates gaps and challenges of digital engineering implementations and propose recommendations to close gaps.

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--- DoD Digital Engineering Strategy, 2018

Update

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DEIX WG leadership team

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Sean McGervey (Chair)

Missy Wallace

(DE Guide)

William Bearden

Darryl Howell

Cheryl Jones (DE Measurement)

Celia Tseng (Taxonomy, acting)

Ken Zhang

(Digital Viewpoint Model)

Frank Salvatore (DoD OUSD)

Chris Schreiber

(NDIA)

Tamara Hambrick (Chair Deputy)

Terri Chan (Communication)

Tracee Gilbert (Treasurer)

Celia Tseng (tech liaison)

Risa Gorospe (Tech fellow)

Terri Chan

(Tech Ops/ IT)

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   2022 Achievements

    2023 Next Steps

Established Development Team with Bi-weekly working meetings

Recruit co-lead (DE Guide, Taxonomy), writers, and reviewers

Established Tool Environment for DEIX SF development

(INCOSE Collaboration on MS Teams)

Refine teams development content and public facing content (INCOSE/ OMG wiki website)

Initiated DE Taxonomy and Definition Development

  • Working draft of definition and references

Draft Taxonomy Primer, following INCOSE Publication Process with DoD OUSD, IEEE and ISO collaboration

Initiated DE Guide Development

  • Drafted outline, scope, and schedule

Begin working draft, following INCOSE Publication Process with DoD OUSD, IEEE and ISO collaboration

Establish DE Measurement Framework collaboration

  • Version 1.1

Support Version 2.0 development

Presentations

  • ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC7 June Plenary AHG 6 outbrief
  • ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC7 Dec Plenary AHG 6 outbrief
  • NDIA Systems and Mission Engineering Conference
  • INCOSE IW and INCOSE IS 2022
  • Army Futures Command Digital Engineering Working Group
  • OpenMBEE working group
  • INCOSE PDES-LOTAR 2022 Q1 workshop

Presentations

INCOSE IW and INCOSE IS 2023

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 June Plenary AHG 6 outbrief

NDIA Systems and Mission Engineering Conference

Establish Partnerships with ISO/IEC + IEEE

  • Resolution for new project approved at ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC7 WG7 for DE measurement framework and DE guide

IEEE: Get new proposal approved. Recruit members.

ISO: Submit final draft of Form 4. after INCOSE publication

DoD OUSD: Advisory support for work product development

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DEIX Development Timeline

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DEIX-SF standard survey

(2018)

50+ standards evaluated for applicability to DoD DE strategy

DEIX standard evaluation findings

(2019)

INCOSE International Symposium Outbrief

ISO/IEC SC 7 AHG 6 Liaison Digital Engineering Standard Report kick off

(2021)

Resolution from June 2021 ISO Plenary meeting

ISO/IEC SC7 AHG 6 Digital Engineering Report

(2022)

AHG 6 report and ISO standard recommendations

Begin Standard Product Development

(2023)

DE Taxonomy

DE Guide

DE Measurement

DVM

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Reviewed Standards and Bodies of Knowledge At-A-Glance

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DE Standard gaps

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Provide conceptual knowledge for the development of theories representing descriptive knowledge

No Industry wide agreement on:

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Taxonomy and definition

Establishment and use

Conventions for Exchange

Measurement

How DE support lifecycle activities and decision making

exchange framework accommodates rapid technology changes

Evaluate effectiveness of digital engineering implementation and transformation

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DEWG activities/projects 2023

  • Digital Engineering Taxonomy, definitions and concepts
    • Develop draft (INCOSE)
  • Digital Engineering Measurement Framework
    • Develop version 2.0  (INCOSE)
  • Guidance for the utilization of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 with Digital Engineering (DE Guide)
    • Develop initial draft (INCOSE)
  • Digital Viewpoint Model (DVM) and methodology guide
    • Develop initial draft (INCOSE)
  • ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 AHG6 Digital Engineering
    • Cross-collaboration with standard committees and bodies of knowledge to identify DE standard gaps for software and systems engineering. 

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Why DE Taxonomy?

  • Taxonomy is a form of systematic organization of knowledge
  • Historical taxonomy development in information systems is largely ad-hoc, based on expert perceptions and not always verified with empirical data. (Nickerson, 2013)
  • A useful Taxonomy helps researchers and practitioners understand and analyze complex concepts with empirical evidence

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Develop useful Taxonomy, not necessary “best” or “correct”

Linnaean taxonomy of primates

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DE Taxonomy 2023 Project Plan

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Submit INCOSE Product Plan

Review Definitions

Collect/ Review Empirical Examples

Draft Taxonomy

Internal WG Review

Submit for INCOSE Review/ Publication

Jan

Feb

Apr - June

July - Aug

Sept

March

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Taxonomy Brainstorming session (30 mins)

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Discuss concepts and relationships

Review current definitions

Identify and update with empirical examples

Brainstorm taxonomy

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Discuss/ wrap up

Refine conceptual taxonomy with empirical examples

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Terms

Definition

Authoritative Source of Truth

The authoritative source of truth is:�- Produced by a recognized data production source�- Verified and Validated by a recognized governing body for use�- Maintained and Released by a recognized publication body for consumption�- Contains data/information as well as its current state and history

Digital Engineering

An integrated approach to use data, models and information in a digital environment across disciplines to support lifecycle activities from concept through disposal.

Digital Twin

virtual representation that serves as the real-time digital counterpart of a physical object or process. (ISO 24641)

Digital Artifact

A digital artifact is any combination of professional data, information, knowledge, and wisdom (DIKW Pyramid) expressed in digital form and exchanged within a digital ecosystem.

Digital System Model

A system model - is used to represent a system and its environment - may comprise multiple views of the system to support planning, requirements, architecture, design, analysis, verification, and validation - is a representation of a system with various degrees of formalism often expressed as a combination of descriptive and analytical models.�The system model is an integrating framework for other models and development artifacts including text specifications, engineering analytical models, hardware and software design models, and verification models. In particular, the system model relates the text requirements to the design, provides the design information needed to support analysis, serves as a specification for the hardware and software design models, and provides the test cases and related information needed to support verification and validation. (ISO 24641, 2021)

Digital Engineering Ecosystem

A digital engineering ecosystem includes enterprises' interconnected digital environments, stakeholder-networks, and semantic data that allows the exchange of digital artifacts from an authoritative source of truth to serve the stakeholder communities' interests.

Digital Thread

lowest level design and specification for a digital representation of a physical item�Note 1 to entry: The term digital thread is also used to describe the traceability of the digital twin back to the requirements, parts and control systems that make up the physical asset (ISO 24641)

Digital View

A digital view is a visual presentation on an electronic display device of one or more processed digital artifacts, enabling the consumption of digital artifact content according to stakeholders’ unique activities at any phase or step in the system life cycle.

Digital Viewpoint

1. form of abstraction achieved using a selected set of architectural concepts and structuring rules, in order to focus on particular concerns within a system [ISO/IEC 10746-2:2009 Information technology — Open Distributed Processing - Reference Model: Foundations, 3.2.7]

Model-Based Engineering (MBE)

A software and systems development paradigm that emphasizes the application of modeling principles and best practices throughout the life cycle. (ISO 24641) formalized applications of modeling to support systems and software engineering.

Model Curation

Model Curation is the lifecycle management, control, preservation and active enhancement of models and associated information to ensure value for current and future use, as well as repurposing beyond initial purpose and context.

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Discussion

  • <insert discussion>

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Next Steps

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Volunteer Lead Author and Editor

Volunteer Project Manager

Recruit Authors and Contributors

Coordination with External Groups (IEEE, OMG, AIAA, etc)

Contribute Empirical Digital Engineering Examples

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INCOSE IW 2023 - DEIXWG Sessions (all times Pacific)

DEIXWG 

Saturday, Jan 28. 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm 

Overview of DEIXWG as a working 

group, structure, and work planned 

for 2023-24 

DE Measurement Framework

Monday, Jan 30. 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Introduce version 1.1 of the Digital 

Engineering Measurement Framework 

and discuss its development. 

DE Standards (DEIX SF)

Sunday, Jan 29. 10:30 am – 12:00 pm 

Overview of the current DEIX Standards work in progress, along with an update on the Digital Engineering Taxonomy. 

Monday, Jan 30. 8:00 am – 10:30 am

Meeting to enlist working members of the group, define a candidate set of 

metrics for version 2, and establish a

roadmap for publication.

DE Guide (DEIX SF - DE Guide)

Monday, Jan 30. 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Review/Introduction of DE Guide 

followed by gathering of thoughts and perspectives on current topics  

Digital Viewpoint Model

(DEIX DVM)

Monday, Jan 30. 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

DVM conceptual overview followed 

by a workshop where participants  

apply DVM concepts to define digital viewpoints given a user story.

Monday, Jan 30. 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Workshop to brainstorm ideas to 

Incorporate into the Digital 

Engineering Guide.

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To join our ongoing standards development activities, scan the QR code with your mobile phone to complete our online registration form or go online to: https://bit.ly/3GRKl1j 

www.incose.org/IW2023

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DE Definitions

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DEIXWG 

DEIXWG Standards

  • sites.google.com/view/deix-sf/  (slides can be found here)
  • INCOSE Teams Collaboration

DEIXWG Standards – Taxonomy

  • OMG Wiki Page for DE Taxonomy  

DEIXWG Standards – Measurement Framework

DEIXWG Standards - Partnerships

  • ISO: JTC1 / SC7 Committee Homepage

References

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Joint ISO- INCOSE Investigation 2021

INCOSE DEIX-SF invited to lead the investigation via ISO-INCOSE liaison agreements

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