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A Process Description for a New Paradigm in Systems Engineering
Author(s) -
Wray Richard B.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1994.tb01831.x
Subject(s) - system of systems engineering , requirements engineering , process (computing) , system of systems , systems development life cycle , systems engineering , engineering management , health systems engineering , key (lock) , systems thinking , system lifecycle , engineering , biological systems engineering , work (physics) , computer science , systems design , civil engineering software , software development process , software development , artificial intelligence , computer security , mechanical engineering , software , application lifecycle management , programming language , operating system
System Engineering usually has a key technical responsibility on systems acquisition projects. The activities normally viewed as systems engineering include Mission Requirements Analysis, Functional Analysis, Requirements Allocation, Synthesis, Optimization and Specification. This is insufficient in practice. There is a lot of confusion over the relationship of systems engineering functions to the life cycle of system development effort. The National Council on Systems Engineering's (NCOSE) national Systems Engineering Process Description Working Group (SEPWG) has been chartered to prepare a description of systems engineering to clarify its roles. The SEPWG has determined that a new way of thinking about systems engineering is needed. This new paradigm includes understanding of two levels to systems engineering; considering all systems engineering customers; and learning and applying systems engineering to projects. This SEPWG Chair Report identifies some of the problems facing systems engineering, addresses the other development participants with whom Systems Engineers must work, and identifies the overall activities and processes in each aspect of systems engineering as used throughout the system life cycle. This report establishes a “sense of the SEPWG” baseline for efforts still underway for the NCOSE interest group members supporting the SEPWG.