Digital Engineering Leadership Team

Digital Engineering: the next chapter

This is the first of two workshops. Across the two sessions, we will move from the future you want for Digital Engineering to a five-year roadmap that this group owns.

Session one · today

Thursday 10 September

10:00 – 12:00 · The Hive

Session two

Thursday 24 September

10:00 – 12:00 · The Hive

What we are here to do today

One goal for the next two hours

Together we will write a set of north star statements, in your own words, that describe what Digital Engineering should make possible by 2031. Today is for opening up the thinking. On 24 September we will narrow it down.

Think broadly, not in detail Describe the outcome, not the technology Built from the top down and the bottom up This group owns the roadmap

Welcome · 8 minutes

Andrew opens the session.

What matters most · 22 minutes · at your table

Choose the themes that matter most to your table

1

Read the cardsEach card shows a theme from your interviews. These are the things you said you want to see in five years. Use the blank cards to add anything we have missed.

2

Discuss and choose threeAs a table, talk through the cards and choose the three themes that matter most to you. You do not need to rank the rest. Please allow about 12 minutes.

3

Read them outEach table reads its three themes to the room. Please allow about 10 minutes, so every table has a turn.

22:00

Example · 10 minutes · Daniel

An example of Digital Engineering in practice

Daniel will talk about Digital Engineering in SRL: what it involves, what it changed, and what he would do differently.

After the example, we will each ask ourselves one question: given what I have seen, what do I want for us in the next five years?

Three examples are displayed on the walls around the room. They are there to prompt your thinking, not to give you the answer. Please refer to them during the next activity.

Break

We will take a fifteen-minute break.

Please be back in your seats in fifteen minutes.

15:00

2031 · 33 minutes · write and submit

It is 2031, and Digital Engineering has delivered. What is now true?

Write single sentences that describe what someone would experience in 2031. Describe the outcome, not the technology that delivers it. Draft your sentences at your table, then submit them in Menti.

To submit, go to

menti.com

Enter code 7954 7407, or scan the QR code. You will use the same link to vote later.

Too detailed"We have a common data environment."

A clear outcome"A project director opens a model on Monday morning and sees cost, programme and design in one place, without asking anyone to prepare it."

One sentence Plain language Clear enough to answer yes or no

The constellation · 17 minutes · vote in Menti

You each have three votes. Use them on the statements you most want to be true.

Use the same Menti link as before. Voting is anonymous. You can put all three votes on one statement, or spread them across three. Vote for the future you most want, not the best-written sentence. We will not remove any statement today. If a statement matters to someone, it stays in for session two.

To vote, go to

menti.com

Enter the same code, 7954 7407. This is the same question you submitted to earlier.

Close · 8 minutes

What happens next

Within two days

Your statements return to you

We will send everything the room wrote to you, so you can read it on your phone.

For two weeks

You can add to it

You will be able to add statements, respond to others, or point out anything missing. This gives anyone who was quiet today another chance to contribute.

On 24 September

Session two begins here

We will narrow the statements down to three to five north stars, and agree together how DELT will deliver them.

Andrew will respond to what he has heard today.

Thank you

Thank you for your work today.
We will see you on the 24th.

Session two · Thursday 24 September · 10:00 – 12:00 · The Hive

Digital Engineering:the next chapter