Difference between revisions of "Editor's Corner"

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Hi there! Welcome to the October 2019 instantiation of the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge. Since version 1.0 appeared in September 2012, that means the SEBoK just celebrated its 7th birthday! This release, version 2.1 is also my third release as Editor in chief. This release brings what I hope are some exciting changes for the readers and authors.

The first change I hope you notice is that we have added bylines to those articles for which we can track their origins. As of this release, we are recognizing the contribution of lead authors and the additional contributing authors. It is our hope that these contributions will be beneficial to the authors in their professional lives - being able to prove their contributions to this important knowledge base.

The next obvious change should be the way glossary bubbles have been updated. They are more readable now, with a grey background and black text.

Other changes include new articles on:

Digital Engineering
Mission Engineering
Set Based Design
MBSE Adoption Trends 2009-2018

Additionally, we have updated content on Resilience, Human Systems Integration, and Capability Engineering. Part 1 also received a wire brushing. We have also begun incorporating video. You will find a short video on the Main page. We are also going to begin to look at existing INCOSE YouTube channel content to look for 1-3 minute clips we can strategically place throughout the SEBoK to add value.

There is a big announcement to be made relative to the SEBoK. The IEEE Computer Society has been one of the three stewards of the SEBoK from the beginning. They have had a seat on the Board of Governors, and have provided invaluable counsel. In January 2020, that stewardship will be transferred from the IEEE Computer Society to the IEEE Systems Council. The Editorial Board looks forward to the continued support and participation of IEEE. Thank you IEEE Computer Society, and in particular to Rich Hilliard and Andy Chen.

Regarding the reach of the SEBoK, there were over 29,000 visitors and 68,781 page views during the the month of July 2019. That brings our total page views to over 3.45M since 2012. Top content pages in July: 1) Stakeholder Needs and Requirements, 2) Types of Models, 3) Types of Systems, 4) Systems Requirements, and 5) Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability. Top countries accessing the SEBoK in July:

US
India
Australia
United Kingdom
Philippines

Looking forward to the next release, it is my hope that those of you that enjoy working with video will think about creating video content now that we have that capability. Please limit your submissions to no more than 3 minute clips, and the preferred format is mp4.

I am still looking for additional authors and folks interested in taking a leadership role as editors to help manage and grow our content for specific areas. It would be nice to add some more content in Part 6: Related Disciplines, and Part 7: SE Implementation Examples. If you would like to author an article for those sections, please reach our to Nicole Hutchinson (emtnicole@gmail.com) or myself (rcloutier@southalabama.edu).

That is it for now ... I hope to see you at the upcoming International Workshop being held in Torrence, CA in January 2020. If you have ideas for the SEBoK, or would like to get involved, be sure to find me there and we can have some coffee and chat. But, do not feel you have to wait until then to get involved - reach out now! Thanks for your ongoing support.

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-A very warm welcome to all SEBoK users. The BKCASE Editor in Chief (EIC) has overall responsibility for the continuing review and update of the SEBoK.  Many thanks to the BKCASE Governors and the current members of the Editorial Board for supporting me.
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-I am delighted to be able to talk to you about SEBoK v. 1.8, which continues our commitment to regular review of the information referenced in our "Guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge".
+Hi there! Welcome to the October 2019 instantiation of the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge. Since version 1.0  appeared in September 2012, that means the SEBoK just celebrated its 7th birthday! This release, version 2.1 is also my third release as Editor in chief. This release brings what I hope are some exciting changes for the readers and authors.
-The approach taken by the BKCASE Editorial Board to manage and evolve the SEBoK is itself continuing to evolve.  SEBoK v1.4 was a significant milestone in this evolution, creating an alignment of SEBoK content with significant updates of [[ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288|ISO/IEC/IEEE. 15288:2015 Systems and Software Engineering - System Life Cycle Processes]] and the [[INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook|INCOSE SE Handbook v4.0, 2015]].  This marked something of a culmination of work started within the community working across all three of these products reaching back to the beginnings of the BKCASE project in 2009.  Since then effort has been split between continuing to build on and mature content within the existing SEBoK and exploring other areas of related knowledge.
+The '''first change''' I hope you notice is that we have added bylines to those articles for which we can track their origins. As of this release, we are recognizing the contribution of lead authors and the additional contributing authors. It is our hope that these contributions will be beneficial to the authors in their professional lives - being able to prove their contributions to this important knowledge base.
-SEBok, v.1.6 and v1.7 contained a number of structural changes to facilitate the ongoing evolution of the SEBoK.  In particular a new section was included in Part 1 to reflect the ongoing [[Introduction to SE Transformation|transformation of the discipline of SE]] and associated emerging areas of knowledge.  The first two of these being in [[Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) (glossary)|Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)]] and the expansion of SEBoK to cover domain specific SE knowledge.
+The '''next obvious change''' should be the way glossary bubbles have been updated. They are more readable now, with a grey background and black text.
-Version 1.8 contains more ongoing maintenance of the SEBoK, working closely with the SE community.
+Other changes include '''new articles''' on:
-=== SEBoK v. 1.8 ===
+* Digital Engineering
+* Mission Engineering
+* Set Based Design
+* MBSE Adoption Trends 2009-2018
+Additionally, we have '''updated content''' on Resilience, Human Systems Integration, and Capability Engineering. Part 1 also received a wire brushing. We have also begun incorporating video. You will find a short video on the Main page. We are also going to begin to look at existing INCOSE YouTube channel content to look for 1-3 minute clips we can strategically place throughout the SEBoK to add value.
-SEBoK v1.8 contains detailed changes to article content in [[Applications of Systems Engineering|Part 4 Applications of Systems Engineering]] and [[Related Disciplines|Part 6 Related Disciplines]].  This version does not include any additional structural changes.
+There is a big announcement to be made relative to the SEBoK. The IEEE Computer Society has been one of the three stewards of the SEBoK from the beginning. They have had a seat on the Board of Governors, and have provided invaluable counsel. In January 2020, that stewardship will be transferred from the IEEE Computer Society to the IEEE Systems Council. The Editorial Board looks forward to the continued support and participation of IEEE. Thank you IEEE Computer Society, and in particular to Rich Hilliard and Andy Chen.
-In Part 4 the System of Systems knowledge area contains a number of updates which have been collected from the SoS community of interest.  One significant change to the recognition of SoS as a mainstream topics within SE has been its more formal inclusion in recent changes to SE standards.  This is reflected in changes to some definitions and terminology in the SEBoK articles.
+Regarding the reach of the SEBoK, there were over 29,000 visitors and 68,781 page views during the the month of July 2019. That brings our total page views to over 3.45M since 2012. Top content pages in July: 1) Stakeholder Needs and Requirements, 2) Types of Models, 3) Types of Systems, 4) Systems Requirements, and 5) Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability. Top countries accessing the SEBoK in July:
+# US
+# India
+# Australia
+# United Kingdom
+# Philippines
+Looking forward to the next release, it is my hope that those of you that enjoy working with video will think about creating video content now that we have that capability. Please limit your submissions to no more than 3 minute clips, and the preferred format is mp4.
-Part 6 the SEBoK considers the relationships between SE and other disciplines.  One challenge of part 6 is to align the knowledge discussed with the body of knowledge of the related disciplines, while still making it appropriate for systems engineers.  To help do this the part 6 editors have created a standard article template which provides a structure within which to discuss discipline specific standards, practices and tools.  In SEBoK v1.8 we have continued to populate these sections in collaboration with representatives from the related areas.
+I am still looking for additional authors and folks interested in taking a leadership role as editors to help manage and grow our content for specific areas. It would be nice to add some more content in Part 6: Related Disciplines, and Part 7: SE Implementation Examples. If you would like to author an article for those sections, please reach our to Nicole Hutchinson (emtnicole@gmail.com) or myself (rcloutier@southalabama.edu).
-See [[Acknowledgements and Release History]] for a more detailed list of all changes made for v1.8.
+That is it for now ... I hope to see you at the upcoming International Workshop being held in Torrence, CA in January 2020. If you have ideas for the SEBoK, or would like to get involved, be sure to find me there and we can have some coffee and chat. But, do not feel you have to wait until then to get involved - reach out now! Thanks for your ongoing support.[[File:RobSignature2.jpeg|173x173px|left]]
-===Future Direction for SEBoK===
-It has been my continuing privilege over the last 12 months to continue working with the group of dedicated and knowledgeable [[Acknowledgements and Release History|contributing authors and reviewers]] who make up the BKCASE community; and to help grow this community to expand our relationships with key organizations and groups both within systems engineering and outside of it.
-The role of the Editorial Board is to work with this community of interest on an ongoing review of the current SEBoK content and structure and to develop plans for its maintenance and evolution. Our overall goals in evolving the SEBoK remain broadly the same as those outlined in previous SEBoK updates.  I have restated and slightly modified those goals below:
-*Improve the ways in which [[SEBoK Introduction|Part 1 (SEBoK Introduction)]] provides a starting point for different SEBoK users to find and navigate knowledge relevant to them.  This will include consideration of some of the [[SEBoK Users and Uses|SEBoK Use Cases]] which were not expanded in previous releases, and possible new case studies covering application domains such as Defense, Health Care or Transport.
-*Review Part 2 ([[Foundations of Systems Engineering]]) with help from the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) to better understand the relationships between [[Systems Science (glossary)]] and [[Systems Thinking (glossary)]] as applied to [[Engineered System (glossary)|engineered systems]].  We hope this will lead to an improved integration of systems principles, concepts, patterns and models into the other systems engineering focused knowledge areas across the SEBoK.
-*Look for broader views on the key practices of [[Systems Engineering and Management|Part 3 (Systems Engineering and Management)]] to feed back into the ongoing co evolution of key standards.  In particular make more direct reference to the continuing evolution of [[Agile (glossary)|Agile]] life cycle thinking and bring in more knowledge sources from the [[Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) (glossary)|model based SE (MBSE)]] community.
-*Expand our coverage of knowledge on systems engineering application and practices.  In particular look for ways to bring in more knowledge on how systems engineering practices such as architecting, life cycle tailoring and model based systems engineering are applied in other domains.
-*Identify the other groups, both within the systems engineering community and beyond, with interest in the topics of [[Enabling Systems Engineering|Part 5 (Enabling Systems Engineering)]] and [[Related Disciplines|Part 6 Related Disciplines]] and form stronger relationships with them.  For example we are working with the IEEE Computer Society about the relationship between SE and Software Engineering.
-We continue to work towards ensuring that our coverage of existing systems engineering knowledge is complete and to push the boundaries of that knowledge into new approaches and domains. I also want to strengthen further our links to all members of the systems engineering community through things like the [[Sandbox|SEBoK Sandbox]]. If you are interested in any of the activity discussed above or if you have other topics which we should be considering please contact me or the appropriate member of the [[BKCASE Governance and Editorial Board|Editorial Board]] directly or use one of the available feedback mechanisms.
-We have continued to gather review comments and content suggestions from as wide a variety of individuals as possible to make the SEBoK a truly community-led product.  Thank you to all those who have already joined this effort and I continue to look forward to working with many of you on future SEBoK releases.
-Thank you,
-[[File:RickSignature_Full.png|left|200px]]

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