Agile Collaborative Systems Engineering ‐Motivation for a Novel Approach to Systems Engineering
Emrah Asan, Semih Bilgen · INCOSE International Symposium · 2012
Abstract Well‐established systems engineering approaches are becoming more inadequate as today's systems are becoming more complex, more global, more software intensive, more COTS/re‐use based and more evolving. The changes in the organization and management of such systems of systems projects make it even more difficult for traditional systems engineering approaches. Increased level of outsourcing, significant amount of subcontractors, more integration than development, reduced project cycles, ecosystem like collaborative developments, software product lines and global development are some of the changes in the project life cycle approaches. In this paper, we gather and synthesize the current literature to highlight the need for an agile systems engineering approach and to characterize its agile properties in order to support our motivation for a novel systems engineering approach for large scale software intensive systems of systems projects.