Managing Awareness in a CURVE‐y World: Agile Systems Engineering for Autonomous Vehicles
Bill Schindel · Insight · 2018
ABSTRACT Awareness is vital to agility. Based on an INCOSE agile systems engineering case study, this article illustrates different perspectives on enabling, exploiting, and balancing awareness, including issues of networks versus hierarchies, teaming and leadership, pattern exploitation, model uncertainty, and optimal estimation and control. The SPAWAR System Center Pacific (SSC‐Pac) in San Diego, US‐CA established capability to facilitate agile development of unmanned systems. As a case study in the INCOSE Agile Systems Engineering Life Cycle Model (ASELCM) Discovery Project, SSC‐Pac provided an example of agility challenges and issues of awareness in addressing them. The model‐based ASELCM Pattern helped us analyze this example beyond the context of agile software methods.