Masterclasses
This year PGCS will be running four Masterclasses, giving you more chance to learn from an industry expert. The Masterclasses will be running in-person only to allow them to have a more interactive format. Please note the Masterclasses are a separate registration fee to the Symposium.
Dr Keith Joiner, CSC, CPEng, CPPD
Senior Lecturer Test, Evaluation and Aircraft Design
Australia
Masterclass Title
Acquisition Reform is about becoming Digital, Agile and Evergreen; how this is enabled by Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
Masterclass Overview
MBSE is revolutionising acquisition to enable broader digital engineering, agile acquisition and more evergreen resilience.
The reform is more than an industry zeitgeist, the trial of a new Master subject on MBSE by UNSW and Old Dominion University (ODU) in 2024 found over 60 credible research articles and two 2023 major textbooks rigorously chosen to cover the MBSE processes, impacts and tradeoffs.
Dr Dallas Rosson, PMP
Principal Engineer for the Digital Transformation Division
USA
Masterclass Title
Balancing Traditional Systems Engineering with some Focused Agile Development
Masterclass Overview
Examine the complexities and challenges involved in projects and programs implementing the more “Agile” approaches being called for, particularly for systems and software-intensive development projects.
Learn how to apply a new approach, Systems Engineering Focused Agile Development (SEFAD), that practically offers the benefits of enabling more Agile approaches to be implemented while maintaining the systems engineering best practices essential for achieving successful delivery outcomes.
Mrs Kelli Houston,
MSCS, SPC, RTE, CSM, ICP-ACC
Lockheed Martin Fellow
USA
Masterclass Title
Mastering Mission Success: Tracking Scope, Schedule, and Cost in Complex and Dynamic Agile/Hybrid Delivery Environments
Masterclass Overview
Effectively tracking progress against scope, schedule, and cost is
critical to program success.
This interactive, hands-on masterclass brings Agile PPM to life through a practical exercise, demonstrating how to track program performance in a dynamic environment.
Attendees will gain actionable strategies to not only answer the question, “Will we make it?” reliably, but also pivot effectively if the answer is “No.”
Mr Brent
Johnstone
Lockheed Martin Fellow
USA
Masterclass Title
Navigating Uncertainty: Strategies and Techniques for Estimating Large Development and Production Programs with Imperfect Data
Masterclass Overview
You’ve been called into the boss’s office and asked to provide a cost estimate. What’s known about the project? Practically nothing, but the answer’s due next week. What do you do?
This masterclass presents a hypothetical development and production program and walks through the steps to produce a credible rough order of magnitude estimate with imperfect data. It demonstrates how to define the estimating problem, gather cost data even in unpromising circumstances, analyse data, and develop cost estimating relationships. It also makes side trips into related topics such as regression analysis, learning curves, and risk analysis.
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