Mission
The purpose of this working group is to identify and develop a body of knowledge that will inform systems engineering and related processes which require agile system capability. Agile systems of interest to this working group include both systems engineering processes and systems-engineered systems. This working group views agility as a sustainable system capability, enabled and constrained fundamentally by system architecture. This architecture delivers agile capability as reconfiguration, augmentation, and evolution of system functionality; enabling the system to respond to new and immediate situational requirements effectively. Effectiveness of response is measured in response time, response cost, response predictability, and response scope sufficient to sustain the system’s functional intent.
Scope
The primary focus of this WG is on fundamentally necessary and sufficient architectural concepts and concept-employment principles that enable any system or process to be agile, and to show how these architectural concepts and principles are or might be applied advantageously to a variety of INCOSE-relevant systems and processes of interest. These examples will be directed at the application of necessary and sufficient agility-enabling concepts and principles, avoiding prescriptive interpretation and disclosure of organization-specific competitive-advantage differentiation. Application examples will include, for instance, systems engineering and management processes, Quick Reaction Capability, and acquisition processes, to name only a few.
Goals
- Identification and justification of necessary and sufficient fundamental concepts for any system or process to be agile.
- Identification and publication of a relevant body of knowledge appropriate for the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK).
- Development and maintenance of appropriate contributions to the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook that provide fundamental enabling concepts and considerations for engineering agile systems and processes, and for employing agile SE processes.
- Development of generic Agile Systems Engineering Life Cycle Model fundamentals, compatible with IEEE/ISO 15288 and with agile systems engineering processes of all kinds.
- Identification and development of informative examples of fundamental agile-system concepts employed in a variety of relevant system or process applications.
- Socialization of work efforts with papers for INCOSE’s journal of Systems Engineering, papers and tutorials at the International Symposium, INSIGHT theme issues, and educational and tutorial Webinars.