Challenges of Needs and Requirements Definition and Management for Complex Systems | Lou Wheatcraft | INCOSE Webinar | Ep 151

Defining and managing needs and requirements across the system lifecycle is increasingly challenging when developing today’s complex, software-centric systems – especially for systems that are being contracted out to suppliers. These challenges are a result of increases in: – Complexity – The role software has in the system architecture (software centric systems are the norm) – Dependencies and number of interactions between parts of the system – The interactions between a system and the macro system it is a part – The number of threats across interface boundaries and vulnerabilities to those threats – Dependencies between project management and systems engineering  Dependencies between systems engineering lifecycle process activities and artifacts – Oversight – Competition – The pressure (and need) to reduce development time and time to market – Risks (program/project, development, manufacturing, IV&V, and operational) – The number of projects that are over budget and experiencing schedule slippage During this session, Lou Wheatcraft will address these challenges and propose a methodology that will enable organizations to move from the outdated 20th century practice of systems engineering to a practice of systems engineering better suited to the development of the increasingly complex, software-centric systems typical of the 21st century.