VALUE BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERINGTHE VALUE ADDED PATH FORWARDJoseph Maley

April 19, 2023

What is VBSE?

Value Based System Engineering approach • responds to business process and organizational

design needs of the enterprise. solid, sustainable incremental and agile, scales in conformity with established

management priorities.

VBSE’s Utility Realizable path to

• a clear picture of enterprise processes that drive the management business objectives.

• establishing strategic priorities for meeting enterprise needs.• VBSE drives that strategy.

VBSE is: • scalable • agile • accountable.

VBSE allows measuring and monitoring progress achieving a solid and strategic resource allocation schema.

VBSE’s Utility

VBSE allows shifts in • strategic direction and • resource application

VBSE enables comprehensive and coherent governance of the enterprise’s capabilities.

What Needs Does VBSE Address? Facilitates meeting organizational needs:• Builds a smooth workflow across fragmented and

dispersed processes• Improves and streamlines data gathering and support

processes• Captures customer requirements.• Captures enterprise business and mission requirements• Promotes comprehensive data access across common tools • Provides automated data capture processes for complete,

accurate and current metrics

GOAL of VBSE

The goal is to move from an incomplete, indistinct (blurred) view of the enterprise business practices to a well defined (in focus) understanding of these practices.

RESULT

Process owners can make informed decisions about strategic directions, process improvements and resource allocation.

RESULT Facilitates the best use of resources to support

business practices that are designed and attuned to the furtherance of the enterprise’s mission.

SCOPE Understanding and integrating the • current technology, • business practices, • business rules, procedures and workflow, and • human capacity

Tool for real organizational transformation Culturally positive “pull” pressure (versus a

culturally negative “push” pressure) = successful implementation of organizational improvements.

SCOPE Transform cultural change barriers into change

enablers.

SCOPE

Transforms diversity into a means of enriching the enterprise.

Cultivates robust assessment, evaluation and technology planning.

METHOD

Three phases:• Iterative Analysis • Model Based Systems Engineering for Value

(Value Based)• Implementation

METHOD: Phase 1

Iterative Analysis • “SIPOC” (Suppliers, Inputs,

Processes, Outputs and Customers) oriented interviews

• Models are made based on results of interviews

• Modeled processes are reviewed with the process owners and/or stakeholders

METHOD: Phase 2Model Based Systems Engineering for Value (Value Based)• Translate business practice

reality into critical design models and requirement specifications.

• Accurately capture, analyze, and verify design integrity before problems embed themselves in the system.

Method: Phase 3Implementation• Improvements are grounded in reality, making them

efficient and effective • The requirements create an accurate picture of business

practice needs.• Business practice understanding results in a more focused

capability development and acquisition. • Requirements are directly traceable to the implemented

solutions

Benefits

Incremental Intentional Accountable Agile Fast Efficient

VBSE and Best Practice Models

Value Based Systems Engineering leverages the benefits of several best practice models.

VBSE and Best Practice Models

• Bi-directional traceability of requirements• Managing risk with modeling and simulation• People CMMI

VBSE and Best Practice Models

• VBSE arms the Six Sigma effort with just the information needed to attack the improvement problem.

• VBSE discipline and mode support and strengthen DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control)

• VBSE utilizes Six Sigma tools and “best practices;” such as, owner involvement, aligning improvement efforts with strategic goals, SIPOC, modeling and simulation.

VBSE and Best Practice Models

VBSE and Agile Development stress a responsive, incremental and rapid process leading to flexible and increasing levels of end user (or customer) capability.

VBSE uses incremental spirals developed by knowledgeable implementers

VBSE process is culturally sensitive and uses the natural development of front end buy-in as its cultural strategy

Summary VBSE is a sound, proven approach to

improving the enterprise business practices. VBSE begins at the level where the business

practices “live” and garners cultural acceptance and grounding in business practice reality.

The picture that emerges is accurate and actionable.

Summary Improvements are identified, made and

implemented rapidly. The process is scalable and provides for

measurable accountability. VBSE enlivens their creativity and fuels their will

to innovate and change. VBSE provides an efficient and effective path

forward to a managed and continuously improving enterprise system.