InsightPub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1002/inst.12440
Laurent Alt, Mikaël Le Mouëlli
{"title":"How Large Scale Agile Can Operate Systems Engineering in the Future","authors":"Laurent Alt, Mikaël Le Mouëlli","doi":"10.1002/inst.12440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12440","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The significant shift happening today towards more connected, more automated, and more autonomous systems is bringing software inside all systems, and at the same time agile practices. Our experience of large-scale agile deployments in companies building or operating complex systems in automotive and aerospace shows that, whereas both approaches can easily coexist in isolated teams within the same company, major problems arise when coordinating them at the leadership level, where they are perceived as antagonist, and create misalignments, friction and quality issues. In this article, we propose to describe why it is important to make agile and systems engineering work together, how to do it, and how this impacts how we see value, systems, digital twins, and leadership. The following concepts of the FuSE agile roadmaps are addressed:</p>\u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>▪ Agility with long lead time components and dependencies</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>▪ Agility across organizations boundaries</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>▪ Orchestrating agile operations.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"26 2","pages":"22-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50155300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1002/inst.12445
Larri Ann Rosser
{"title":"Applying Agility for Sustainable Security","authors":"Larri Ann Rosser","doi":"10.1002/inst.12445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12445","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Systems engineering faces ongoing challenges due to the pace of change in technology and needs as well as the complexity, resilience, and adaptability demanded of solutions. System security needs and challenges are a prominent factor in the increasing demands placed on solutions and the systems engineers who design and develop them. The adoption of program level agile execution is one strategy for addressing these escalating challenges. In this article we describe how the broadly adopted technical processes from the ISO/IEEE/IEC 15288:2015 standard can be executed using agile methods to realize a large complex solution. In addition, we provide specific recommendations for executing these processes in a manner that enables systems to be sustainably secure – that is, to retain the desired level of security throughout the life cycle.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"26 2","pages":"45-52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1002/inst.12438
Rick Dove, Kerry Lunney, Michael Orosz, Mike Yokell
{"title":"Systems Engineering Agility in a Nutshell","authors":"Rick Dove, Kerry Lunney, Michael Orosz, Mike Yokell","doi":"10.1002/inst.12438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12438","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Systems engineering must necessarily have the agility to anticipate and effectively respond to an increasingly dynamic and uncertain environment. Agile systems engineering, agile software engineering, and agile any-kind-of engineering share common goals and leverage common agility-enabling strategies. This article succinctly describes eight strategic aspects with application discussions at the systems engineering level.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"26 2","pages":"11-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1002/inst.12441
Sophie Plazanet, Juan Navas
{"title":"Model-Based Systems Engineering as an Enabler of Agility","authors":"Sophie Plazanet, Juan Navas","doi":"10.1002/inst.12441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12441","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) with agility can help systems engineering programs which deal with both increasing complexity and frequent changes in environment and usages, shorter time-to-market, uncertainty of the needs, and more sophisticated industrial schemes. Agile approaches originated in software engineering can be extended and tailored to a certain extent to complex systems engineering and particularly to MBSE. Main benefits of agility are provision of a minimum viable product as early as possible in the schedule, early capture of changes of needs, enabling to deliver a system answering to the real needs, and securing of the value proposal. It includes also potential reduction in rework of the final system through regular customer feedback throughout development (left shift for the defect correction with early exposure), and efficiency of the use of resources. Concerning MBSE, the use of models as a single source of truth for completeness and consistency is useful to share and secure the design by improving communication within engineering teams and the building and support of the development strategy, and to help to automate some tasks such as model exchange and synchronization. In addition to the benefits of each approach, combining them may help to:</p>\u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>▪ <b>Organize and synchronize</b> the development and validation effort of one or multiple engineering teams.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>▪ <b>Faster impact analysis</b> including trade-off studies/options and hence a <b>faster reaction to evolutions</b> in expectations and constraints, that is, the agility of systems.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>▪ <b>Show regularly “end to end” value</b> to the customer and other stakeholders.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"26 2","pages":"26-30"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1002/inst.12439
Tom McDermott, Kelly Alexander, Richard Wallace
{"title":"The Supra-System Model","authors":"Tom McDermott, Kelly Alexander, Richard Wallace","doi":"10.1002/inst.12439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12439","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article presents an initial set of concepts resulting from research by the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD/RE) and the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) under an initiative called “systems engineering modernization” (SEMOD). This article discusses the “supra-system model,” which evolved as a different view of systems engineering lifecycle activities across the entire life of an engineered system. This view promotes systems engineering as a continuous process that is 1) iterative across the full life of a system and 2) managed through a digital transformation centered on data and models. This article also discusses the value of “shared and authoritatively managed data and models” in the lifecycle of future systems. These together present a modernized view of systems engineering where “seamless and efficient transfer of data and models” will support practices that are “more agile and responsive to changing stakeholder needs.”</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"26 2","pages":"15-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1002/inst.12444
Lymari Castro
{"title":"An Agile Systems Engineering Process for Stakeholder Needs Identification and Solution Concept Design","authors":"Lymari Castro","doi":"10.1002/inst.12444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12444","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper presents a case study where an agile systems engineering process was used to identify stakeholder needs to design an improved cross-organizational proposal development process during the proposal formulation phase of a program. The agile systems engineering process leveraged the incremental application of design thinking techniques to engage the stakeholders and identify the care-abouts of an organization during proposal formulation in support of a change management effort. The goal of the change management effort was to design solutions that increased collaboration and engagement across the various internal and external stakeholders without changing the overarching corporate proposal development process. The identified solutions broke existing organizational silos and changed the dynamics of the organization impacting over 1,200 employees. The case study relates to the future of systems engineering (FuSE) concepts of stakeholder engagement and agility across organizational boundaries.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"26 2","pages":"39-44"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1002/inst.12446
Larri Rosser
{"title":"Agile Programs Need Agile Reviews","authors":"Larri Rosser","doi":"10.1002/inst.12446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12446","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Current technical oversight approaches used for government programs (for example, stage-gate reviews) are not agile — their expectations are not aligned with agile development cadences, and they are not adequately responsive to continuous unpredictable change. This article explores ways to provide insight and responsive forward looking actionable guidance for agile projects in the context of government and defense programs. It proposes a general oversight approach that produces minimal drag and disruption and keeps pace with agile product development.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"26 2","pages":"53-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1002/inst.12437
Rick Dove
{"title":"Setting Current Context for Agility in the Future of Systems Engineering","authors":"Rick Dove","doi":"10.1002/inst.12437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12437","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Agility in the future of systems engineering (FuSE) is one of the topic areas under the INCOSE FuSE initiative. A roadmap for near-term improvement, presented at the 2021 INCOSE International Symposium, offered nine strategic concepts appropriate and ready for further movement toward standard practice. Initial work in that direction enticed several practitioners and researchers to address selected concepts in this special issue of the INCOSE <i>INSIGHT</i> publication. The purpose of this lead-off article is to provide a contextual backdrop for the articles that follow.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"26 2","pages":"8-10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1002/inst.12443
Barry Papke, Matthew Hause, David Hetherington
{"title":"FuSE Agility as a Foundation for Sound MBSE Lifecycle Management","authors":"Barry Papke, Matthew Hause, David Hetherington","doi":"10.1002/inst.12443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12443","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Over the past several years, numerous industries have increased their adoption of the systems modeling language (SysML®) and model-based systems engineering (MBSE) as a core practice within their engineering lifecycles. However, the introduction of SysML and MBSE methodologies has not yet yielded many of the originally envisioned benefits. System models are becoming larger and more complex and many large MBSE projects continue to experience problems with model integration, repository performance, and model lifecycle management. The root cause is the failure to recognize the MBSE digital environment as a complex engineering information processing system that requires the same rigor and development processes as the system-of-interest (SoI) it is designing. This article describes how three future of systems engineering (FuSE) agility foundation concepts (system of innovation, effective stakeholder engagement, and continuous integration) directly address some of the problems seen in adoption, deployment, and sustainment of the MBSE digital environment as an SoI.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"26 2","pages":"34-38"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}