Managing Specification Libaries
Most organizations rewrite the same specifications and keep them scattered across documents that no one can reuse. This course helps you stop that. Learn how to design and manage reusable specifications across your organization and organize your data landscape around them. Giving data a structure imparts meaning, makes it understandable to computers, and lays the foundation for automation and new insights.
As you proceed, you’ll mature your library so your Systems Engineering teams become more responsive and can capture, share, and apply the appropriate specifications when needed. This is where linked data begins to be realized within an organization. Finally, you’ll be able to convert unstructured documents into structured data and design, write, and share specifications that support your projects.
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What you will learn
In one workshop, with self-paced coursework as support, you will learn how to build a specification library and make it available to various projects, as well as how to convert unstructured documents into structured data. By the end, you will be able to design, write, and share reusable specifications, and also increase the maturity of your library so that the appropriate specification is always available when a project needs it.
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Who this course is for
The course is designed for knowledge managers, engineers, information managers, and others involved in managing reusable data who want greater value from their specifications.
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What background you need
Basic knowledge of specifications, standards, or systems engineering would be an advantage, though it is not a strict requirement. Such knowledge will help you get the most out of the course from the first session.
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How it works
The course can be taken online, at your own offices, or at an off-site location. It is offered in groups of between three and twelve people, allowing time for discussion and practical work. If you would like a program completely tailored to your organization, we can arrange a more extended format that suits your projects and your own pace.
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What you take away
You get best-practice guidelines for constructing and managing specification libraries, along with a free trial license for the Laces modeling software, so you can put everything into practice immediately.
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Course duration and costs
The course is offered as a single workshop, with coursework compatible with your own speed and pace. Extended formats are available for various groups, depending on your group size and the format you choose. Please contact us, and we will prepare a proposal that suits you.
Related courses
These courses naturally align with the Managing Specification Libraries course.
Managing Reference Data Libraries
A reference data library defines what can exist: types, properties, and values that your organization agrees on. You learn to design, model, and share them, and to plot a roadmap to raise their maturity as managed master data.
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The specifications you have should be suitable for all projects, not just the one they were prepared for; let us know your team’s current position, and we will help you take the first step today.