COTS-Based Systems – Fundamentals Training
| Commitment | 3 days, 7-8 hours a day. |
| Language | English |
| User Ratings | Average User Rating 4.8 See what learners said |
| Price | CALL |
| Delivery Options | Instructor-Led Onsite, Online, and Classroom Live |
Course Overview
COTS-Based Systems – Fundamentals Training Course – Hands-on
COTS-Based Systems – Fundamentals Training course provides a systemic overview of how to use Systems Engineering to plan, manage, and execute projects that have significant Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) content. Modern development programs are increasingly characterized by COTS solutions (both hardware and software) in both the military and commercial domains.
This course focuses on the fundamentals of planning, execution, and follow-through that allow for the delivery of excellent and effective COTS-based systems to ensure the needs of all external and internal stakeholders are met. Participants will learn the necessary adjustments to the fundamental principles of Systems Engineering when dealing with COTS technologies. Numerous examples of COTS systems are presented. Practical information and tools are provided that will help the participants deal with issues that inevitably occur in the real word. Extensive in-class exercises are used to stimulate application of the course material.
Each student will receive a complete set of lecture notes and an annotated bibliography.
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Course Details:
COTS-Based Systems – Fundamentals Training Course – Customize it
- We can adapt this training course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
- If you are familiar with some aspects of this training course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
- We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the training around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
- If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the training course in manner understandable to lay audiences.
COTS-Based Systems – Fundamentals Training Course – Audience/Target Group
The target audience for this training course:
- Prime and subcontractor engineers who procure COTS components.
- Suppliers who produce and supply COTS components (hardware and software).
- Technical team leaders whose responsibilities include COTS technologies.
- Program and engineering managers that oversee COTS development efforts.
- Government regulators, administrators, and sponsors of COTS procurement efforts.
- Military professionals who work with COTS-based systems.
COTS-Based Systems – Fundamentals Training Course – Objectives:
Upon completing this training course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:
- The key characteristics of COTS components.
- How to effectively plan and manage a COTS development effort.
- How using COTS affects your requirements and design.
- How to effectively integrate COTS into your systems.
- Effective verification and validation of COTS-based systems.
- How to manage your COTS suppliers.
- The latest lessons learned from over two decades of COTS developments.
Course Syllabus
COTS-Based Systems – Fundamentals Training – Course Content
COTS Concepts and Principles.
Key COTS concepts. COTS-Based Systems Engineering (CBSE). Complexity inherent in COTS-based solutions. CBSE compared and contrasted with Traditional Systems Engineering (TSE). Key challenges and expected benefits of CBSE. COTS lessons learned.
COTS Influences on Requirements Development.
Tailored and new approaches to requirements. Stakeholder requirements and measures of effectiveness (MOEs). System Requirements and measures of performance (MOPs). Flow down of requirements to COTS components.
COTS Influences on Architecture and Design.
Architecting principles. Make vs. buy decisions. Architectural and design strategies for CBSE. Supporting the inherent independence of the leveraged COTS components. Dealing with the unique interdependencies of overlapping COTS and system lifecycles. Support for ongoing change and evolution of the COTS components. Architectural frameworks. Technical performance measures (TPMs). Readiness levels. Modeling and simulation.
COTS Life Cycle Considerations.
Reliability, Maintainability, Availability (RMA). Supportability/Logistics, Usability/Human Factors. Training. System Safety. Security/Survivability. Producibility/ Manufacturability. Affordability. Disposability/Sustainability. Changeability (flexibility, adaptability, scalability, modifiability, variability, robustness, modularity). Commonality.
COTS Influences on Integration.
Integration, verification, and validation approaches in a COTS environment. Strategies for dealing with the dynamic and independent nature of the COTS components. Evolutionary and incremental integration, verification, and validation. Acceptance of COTS components.
COTS-Based Systems – Fundamentals Training – COTS Influences on Technical Management.
Planning, monitoring, and control. Risk and decision management, Configuration and information management. Supplier identification and selection. Supplier agreements. Supplier oversight and control. Supplier technical reviews. COTS Integrator role.
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I got a lot out of the real world scenarios presented in class. Brian