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A Sixth Discipline For Future Awareness
Author(s) -
Hall Elaine,
Gorsuch Thomas
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1997.tb02225.x
Subject(s) - adaptation (eye) , computer science , software development , process (computing) , software , software engineering , risk analysis (engineering) , management science , engineering management , process management , engineering , psychology , business , neuroscience , programming language , operating system
What are the disciplines required to successfully manage and develop software systems in today's fast‐paced world? This paper describes a sixth discipline for future awareness— reasoning about possibilities . The current model of software development is based on an adaptation of the Deming model of process optimization. This adaptation is lacking a known discipline that is essential to software‐systems engineering. We develop the sixth discipline that extends the Deming model by adding the ability to discover risk and opportunity. To demonstrate the utility of the six‐discipline model, we describe the distribution of risk‐management practices to the six disciplines. Future awareness improves the current model of software‐system development by providing the capability to manage a future full of change and uncertainty.