This working group's mission is to provide a body of fundamental knowledge which enables systems engineering and engineered systems to operate in environments of caprice, uncertainty, risk, variability, and evolution (CURVE). See the full Agile Systems and Systems Engineering charter.

This working group views agility as a sustainable system and process capability under CURVE conditions, enabled and constrained fundamentally by system architecture. This architecture delivers agile capability as reconfiguration, augmentation, and evolution of system and process functionality, during operation throughout the lifecycle. The architecture enables the system or process to respond to new and immediate situational requirements effectively. Effectiveness of response is measured in response time, response cost, response quality, and response scope sufficient to sustain functional intent.

This working group's objective is to focus on fundamentally necessary and sufficient concepts, concept-employment principles, and concepts of operations that enable any system or process to be agile, and to show how these concepts and principles are or might be applied advantageously to a variety of INCOSE-relevant systems and processes of interest, independent of prescriptive interpretation.

Intended Outcomes

• 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.

Leadership

• Chair: Rick Dove, Paradigm Shift International and Stevens Institute of Technology
• Co-Chair: Ron Lyells, Self
• Co-Chair: Larri Rosser, Raytheon
• Co-Chair: Kevin Gunn, MITRE

Webinars
– INCOSE Webinar – Agile 101: Architecture Fundamentals
– INCOSE Webinar – Agile 102: Requirements Fundamentals
– INCOSE Webinar – Agile 103: Design Fundamentals
– INCOSE Webinar – Agile 104: Quality Fundamentals
– INCOSE Webinar – Agile 105: Operational Awareness
– INCOSE Webinar – Agile 106: Risk Management & Mitigation
– WG Town Hall – Agile SE Life Cycle Model Fundamentals Project
– WG Webinar – Natural-System Patterns for SEing of Agile Self Organizing Security
– WG Webinar – System Engineering for Software Intensive Projects Using Agile Methods 
– WG Webinar – Agile WG Projects, Methods, and Collaboration Potential
Products
– SE Handbook Section 9.9: Agile Systems Engineering – Published in July 2015
– Agile Systems Engineering Life Cycle Model Fundamentals (WIP)
INSIGHT Publications
– 2014-Q2, Theme Issue: Agile-Systems Engineering & Agile Systems-Engineering
– 2015-Q2, Article: Needed - Practitioner Attention to Systems Engineering Delivery of Sustainable Value
– 2016-Q2, Theme Issue: Agile Security – Joint project with Agile SE working group
Papers/Panels/Tutorials
2014 Papers/Panels/Tutorials
– IS14 Paper: Systems Engineering for Software Intensive Projects Using Agile Methodologies
– IS14 Paper: Agile-System Engineering
– IS14 Paper: Agile System-Engineering
2015 Papers/Panels/Tutorials
– IW15 Tutorial: Modeling Agile Systems and Agile Systems Modeling
– IS15 Paper: Do Teams Using Agile Methodology Need Modeling
– IS15 Paper: The Role of Requirements in Agile Product Realization
– IS15 Paper: Principles for Agile Development
– IS15 Paper: Adaptive Knowledge Encoding for Agile Cybersecurity Operations
– IS15 Panel: Converging on Agile SE Priorities for INCOSE
– IS15 Tutorial: Designing Agile Systems and Agile SE Processes
2016 Papers/Panels/Tutorials
– IS16 Paper: Introduction to the Agile Systems Engineering Life Cycle MBSE Pattern (Schindel/Dove)
– IS16 Paper: Agile SE Process Features Collective Culture, Consciousness, and Conscience at SSC Pacific Unmanned Systems Group (Dove/Schindel/Scrapper)
– IS16 Paper: Merit of Adaptable Pairing as an Agile Systems Engineering Knowledge Management Practice (Leroux/Dove)
2017 Papers/Panels/Tutorials
– SysCon 2017 Paper: Case Study: Agile Hardware/Firmware/Software Product Line Engineering at Rockwell Collins
– 2017 AIAA Aviation Forum Panel: Incremental/Agile Methods—Fit for Demands of Complex Aerospace Systems?
– IS17 Paper: Case Study: Agile SE Process for Centralized SoS Sustainment at Northrop Grumman

This working group holds workshops every year at the two main INCOSE events: the International Workshop (usually Jan/Feb) and the International Symposium (usually Jun/Jul). All working group members receive schedule and agenda announcements, and all INCOSE members can view the event planning details on the working group web-site. Non-INCOSE members with interest may inquire at the address shown in the Leadership box.

Two Days – Saturday and Monday

 IW18 Agile Systems & SE WG – INSIGHT Article Reviews
Theme: Enabling and Practicing Systems Engineering Agility
Saturday 20-Jan, 10:30-17:00 EST (Florida Time)
Room: TBD -  Globalmeet: https://incose.pgimeet.com/GlobalmeetSeven

10:30 Introductions, Agenda, Review Rules

11:00 Bill Schindel – Effective HW/SW Agile Systems Engineering at SSC-Pac

11:30 Warren Smith, Lymari Castro – Case Study: Infusing an Agile Systems Engineering Requirements Analysis Process in a Department of Defense Acquisition Program

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Harry Koehnemann and Mark Coats – Using Systems Engineering Workshops and MBSE to drive agile development

13:30 Karen Smiley, C. Louis, V. Augustine, S. Sharma, I. Nistor, A. Cordes, O. Becker –
Introducing Agile in Industrial Research

14:00 Rosa Heckle and Dean Wetherby –
Agile Systems Engineering to Maximize Research Innovation

14:30 Greg Howard, A. Markina-Khusid, A. Moulton, J. James, P. Mahoney, S. Ricks  –
Agile Dynamics at Scale

15:00 Break

15:30 Sharon Fairbairn – From Waterfall to Trust Fall

16:00 Cindy Dupree – Collaborative Design Tools Used to inform Agility in a CURVEd World

16:30 Apoorv Meheshwari, A. Raz, D. DeLaurentis – An Analysis Framework to Support SysML-based Agile Systems Engineering

17:00 Adjourn

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IW18 Agile Systems & SE WG Workshop
Monday 22-Jan, 09:00-17:00 EST (Florida Time)
Room: TBD -  Globalmeet: https://incose.pgimeet.com/GlobalmeetSeven

09:00 – Convene: may start a few minutes late as Town Hall session ends at 9:00

• 09:00 – Intros, Agenda, News
• 09:30 – Overview of the WG – Agility Focus/Charter, and Project Status (Rick Dove)

10:00 – Break

• 10:30 – Project Proposal – Helping Agencies Sense And Respond in a VUCA Environment (Shelley Kirkpatrick)
• 11:00 – Project Update – NDIA Agile SE Collaboration (Larri Rosser)
• 11:15 – Project Update – Resilient Systems WG Collaboration (Keith Willett)
• 11:30 – Project Update – Complex/Agile/Open project status (Larri Rosser)
• 11:45 – Project Review – Decision Guidance Project IS18 Paper Submission (Ron Lyells)

12:00 – Lunch

• 13:00 – Project Review – Agile SE Life Cycle Model (ASELCM) case study findings (Rick Dove)
• 13:30 – Project Proposal – Agile Requirements and Architecture (Larri Rosser)
• 14:00 – Project Proposal – Problem Space Characterization (Rick Dove)
• 14:30 – Project Proposal – Agile System Candidate Technologies (Kevin Gunn)

15:00 – Break

• 15:30 – Project Proposal – Laws of Coherency (Rick Dove)
• 16:00 – Small group discussions based on interest with above

17:00 – Adjourn