A Sixth Discipline For Future Awareness
Elaine M. Hall, Thomas Gorsuch · INCOSE International Symposium · 1997
ABSTRACT What are the disciplines required to successfully manage and develop software systems in today's fast‐paced world? This paper describes a sixth discipline for future awareness—reasoning about possibilities. The current model of software development is based on an adaptation of the Deming model of process optimization. This adaptation is lacking a known discipline that is essential to software‐systems engineering. We develop the sixth discipline that extends the Deming model by adding the ability to discover risk and opportunity. To demonstrate the utility of the six‐discipline model, we describe the distribution of risk‐management practices to the six disciplines. Future awareness improves the current model of software‐system development by providing the capability to manage a future full of change and uncertainty.