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A THREE TECHNIQUE APPROACH TO SUCCESSFUL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
Author(s) -
Altman Eric J.,
Kenrick Karen M.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1994.tb01760.x
Subject(s) - computer science , duration (music) , systems development life cycle , software engineering , task (project management) , trace (psycholinguistics) , software development , concurrent engineering , system lifecycle , software development process , software , systems engineering , programming language , engineering , operations management , art , linguistics , philosophy , literature , scheduling (production processes) , application lifecycle management
Our experience shows that Systems Engineering and other engineering disciplines often work on the same phase throughout the program development life cycle. The combination of a heavy System's task load at the beginning of a program coupled with concurrent tasks with other engineering disciplines for the duration of the program causes System's Engineering to fall behind early on and have to play “catch up” for the duration of the development. In addition, current System Engineering methodology provides few standardized techniques that directly relate or trace System Engineering designs to Software designs. In this paper, we share with our readers the techniques that we used on a predominately software program to solve these problems that we encountered, by using a marriage of three techniques: staggered design phases, graphical threads, and cross reference matrices. The examples in this paper illustrate our implementation of this three‐pronged approach in selected stages of the program life‐cycle, and briefly suggest their possible application to other program phases.