Upcoming Webinar on Co-Development: From Requirements to Unified Understanding for Systems and Software Engineers Systems- hardware- and

software engineers approach systems using their own specialized technical knowledge. Engineers are often spread across several sites each with different cultures, and ownership of the system is spread across many (sub-)organizations. The upshot is misunderstood or dropped requirements, and teams heading in different, sometimes contradictory, directions. To converge we need to construct teams to maximize communication efficiency, to identify all the stakeholders in the system. They need to dig deeply to discover the underlying requirements, and build unified sets of requirements that can be tested. We begin with use cases, stories, epics or features (pick your favorite term), and abstract from those requirements to create various models that capture context, subject matters, and even executable behavior (possibly in SysML). Then and only then do we divide the work to the various specialized experts for construction. This webinar outlines how to progress vague ideas of what the system must do into a single unified understanding suitable for transformation into implementation. Date & Time - Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT / 19:00 GMT (Duration: 1 hour)

Presenter:
Stephen J Mellor Stephen J Mellor is an independent teacher and consultant focussed on methods for the construction of real-time and embedded systems. He is the author of Structured Development for Real-Time Systems , Object Lifecycles, Executable UML, and MDA Distilled. He is also a signatory to the Agile Manifesto. Until recently, he was Chief Scientist of the Embedded Software Division at Mentor Graphics, and founder and president of Project Technology, Inc. before its acquisition. Mr Mellor was the Chairman of the Advisory Board to IEEE Software for ten years and a two-time Guest Editor of the magazine. He is also adjunct professor at the Australian National University.

Moderator:
Chris Ruoff, Senior Manager for Sales and Channel Development Chris Ruoff is the Senior Manager for Sales and Channel Development at the IEEE Computer Society. He has been with the Computer Society for the last four years, previously managing product development for certifications and training programs. Prior to the IEEE, Chris enjoyed an 18-year career at Intel Corporation where he worked as a Marketing Engineer, Sales Engineer, and Business Development Manager. He holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and is located in Southern California. You can contact him at cruoff@computer.org.

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