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Managing Concurrency in Systems Engineering
Author(s) -
Scheithauer Dieter
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2012.tb01453.x
Subject(s) - concurrency , system of systems engineering , computer science , concurrent engineering , systems engineering , requirements engineering , process (computing) , architecture , engineering design process , systems development life cycle , software engineering , distributed computing , systems design , engineering , process integration , software development process , software development , mechanical engineering , process engineering , operating system , software , art , visual arts
The engineering of complex products and services cannot be performed without iterations. Products and services with a multi‐level system architecture and a reasonable number of system elements usually show development activities on individual system elements performed in parallel. The development of each system element is widely managed independently. This paper is concerned with managing concurrency resulting from both, the iterative nature of systems engineering per se, and the multiple projects for developing all the system elements. Lean systems engineering is promising improvements to the systems engineering process in general. However, lean systems engineering is still evolving. Particularly, the integration with all other system life cycle processes needs to be progressed without compromising the lean paradigm. In this paper, amendments to the current state of lean systems engineering are proposed in order to close some of the gaps.