A Capitol Report: INCOSE IS 2018

Photo above: Ron Kratzke (right) displays the “MetaSys Cube” with Vitech colleagues Donna Long and Mark Malinoski in front of the Vitech company booth at the INCOSE International Symposium in Washington, D.C. The International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE) held their International Symposium (IS) in Washington, D.C. from July 9-12, 2018. …

Notable Systems Engineer Jim Long Receives Pioneer Award

The Vitech team was proud to learn Monday at the International Council of Systems Engineering’s International Symposium in Washington, D.C. that Jim Long, influential mentor and longtime leader at Vitech, was honored with the Posthumous Pioneer Award. The award recognizes an individual who has made an outsize contribution to the …

Analysis of Alternatives: Have You Considered Everything?

The systems engineering tool “Analysis of Alternatives,” or AoAs, impacts a broad range of concepts in systems engineering. In my experience, the inception of a project revolves around smart people—often program managers, technical directors, or business developers—discussing what they’ve heard or read or seen as an opportunity to do something …

Operational Architectures

Earlier this year, I did a webinar entitled “Getting Started on Enterprise Architectures.” In that webinar, I introduced the concept of operational architectures. The topic of operational architectures has come up in conversation lately and I thought this article would be a good time to explore the concept of operational …