THE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROCESS UNDER THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT METHOD
Norman B. Reilly, William H. Spuck · INCOSE International Symposium · 1994
Abstract Management and systems engineering processes for system development have undergone a number of significant modifications over the past forty years in a constant effort to improve the probability of success. The lessons have been hard won. The traditional staircase process works best, and perhaps only, when requirements are well understood and needed technologies are in place. Following several successes and many failures, early prototyping and spiral models were devised to reduce risk in system developments where requirements and design issues were more fuzzy [BOEHM, 1988]. The latest management innovation, the rapid development method (RDM), has been successfully used to implement systems whose final requirements and designs are largely unknown at the outset [SPUCK, 1991]. It is important that the appropriate development process be selected for a given system development, and that the impact on the systems engineering process be well understood.