Gary Langford, in response to a question from Lonnie VanZandt related to Lonnie's curiosity in what may be the difference between the focus of the Activity Teams for “Model Lifecycle Management” and “Lifecycle Management”, responded:

Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 06:58:25 -0700
From: Lonnie VanZandt <lonniev AT gmail.com>
To: <madelama AT bechtel.com>, <golangfo AT nps.edu>, <alan.d.harding AT baesystems.com>

Gary,

I’m the chair of the “Model Lifecycle” Management Activity Team within the MBSE Working Group. I’m curious about the similarity of our two teams’ titles. Can we share what is the scope of each our teams? I want to assure that we aren’t addressing common problems without awareness of each other.

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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:57:07 +0000
From: “Langford, Gary (CIV)” <golangfo AT nps.edu>
To: Lonnie VanZandt <lonniev AT gmail.com>, <madelama AT bechtel.com>, <alan.d.harding AT baesystems.com>
Subject: RE: Working Group Collaboration

Lonnie,

… the Lifecycle Management Working Group, its charter and current scope of activities.

For the past few years our group has explored the fundamentals of lifecycle from theory to practice; developed an analytical tool to measures the consequences of problems in lifecycle (for example with the maintenance lifecycle); briefed several INCOSE Chapters on the theory, practice, and analytical tools; and are now developing a lifecycle management model for business execution and product/service development.

We have been working these past two years on three publications, the first of which is planned for INCOSE IS 2016, with a follow-up paper in the INCOSE JOURNAL. Then next on our agenda is an INCOSE Handbook on the fundamentals of lifecycle management to include planning, communicating, organizing, directing, controlling, and team building (the six functions of 'to manage').

We use an approach based on a general theory of systems integration to outline the precepts of lifecycle. This general theory is the second of the three publications planned for the INCOSE JOURNAL. The third paper is on lifecycle risk (currently in our formative debate stage).

We view our scope as being a source of information for other Working Groups, in general, work that supports others. We see “system lifecycle” as a process framework that encompasses all processes and activities relating to a system and system of systems to enhance meeting the stakeholders' needs in an orderly and efficient manner. A system's lifecycle also includes the lifecycles of its components (e.g., technology) and processes (e.g., knowledge management).

As you indicate, “…monitoring and guiding an enterprise as it attempts to exploit models to pursue solutions to its business needs as those needs, the enterprise, and its participants all evolve over time”, is a worthy consideration for lifecycle thinking. The Lifecycle Management Working Group is pleased to work with you as we carry out research on the fundamentals of lifecycle thinking and essences of a lifecycle model.

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Gary