Agile Systems Engineering Life Cycle Model for Mixed Discipline Engineering

Abstract

AbstractThis article focuses on six recent understandings that have crystalized from INCOSE's Agile Systems Engineering Life Cycle Model (ASELCM) discovery project. The ASELCM project analyzed effective agile systems engineering processes in 3‐day structured analysis workshops hosted by organizations that wanted deeper understandings of what works, why it works, and how to apply those understandings across a broader base. Four case studies arising from these workshops have been published. This article cannot cover everything of interest that was discovered, but will expose six key findings: a problem‐space characterization heuristic, an asynchronous/concurrent life cycle model framework, a set of nine systems engineering operating principles, an encompassing pattern of three concurrent behavioral systems operating simultaneously in agile systems engineering, the concept of information debt, and general agile systems engineering response requirements.