Systems Engineering of Software‐Enabled Systems

Fairley, Richard E.

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“…Future work will entail more discussions within the SaSIWG and other INCOSE working groups to clarify and communicate best practices. Fairley (2019) has added considerably to the best practice knowledge base derived from the interviews.…”

Section: Discussion and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The SaSIWG also plans to address problem areas. As a first step toward approaching the expertise key challenge, the SaSIWG conducted a "Book Club" (professional development) webinar series discussing Fairley (2019) and has recorded it for future systems and software engineer education.…”

Section: Discussion and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Researchers still frequently cite Maier's seminal paper on reconciling systems and software architecture (2006). Fairley andWillshire (2011a and2011b) suggest educating each discipline in the other's knowledge base. Sheard (2014), mapping the two disciplines in a Venn diagram, called for increased collaboration.…”

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“…Systems Engineering of Software-Enabled Systems (Fairley 2019) is a new and comprehensive book on the subject. In a discussion with the authors of this paper, Fairley said, "The keys to making my approach work are for hardware, software, and human factor engineers to collaboratively generate system capabilities based on stakeholder requirements, then collaboratively generate the system requirements from the capabilities to develop a Model-Based Engineering (MBE) system architecture model and perhaps the subsystem architectures for large systems, and then incrementally and iteratively replace simulated system elements with real elements as they become available-not as simple as this elevator speech makes it sound, but it is efficient in the overall system development. "…”

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Systems and Software Interface Survey

Muscarella¹,

Osaisai²,

Sheard³

2021

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INCOSE formed the Systems and Software Interface Working Group (SaSIWG) in 2017, responding to the Corporate Advisory Board interest in software and problems identified in the systems and software interface (physical, logical, data, and human). This third SaSIWG paper presents a systems engineers, software engineers, and project managers survey discussing best practices and the priority challenges related to the interface between systems and software. We group and summarize the best practices mentioned by the 31 interviewees then address priority challenges and problems. Systems engineering done well includes an ever‐increasing amount of Model‐Based Systems Engineering. It also includes developing and holding to a vision, managing data, ensuring inter‐disciplinary work, planning systematic verification, and ensuring modularity. Systems engineering must evolve to meet new challenges and, most importantly, systems engineer expertise must include software engineering.

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2021

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“…To address this need, the SaSIWG began weekly remote professional education, fondly known as Book Clubs, the first of which was fortuitously timed to begin immediately before global pandemic lockdowns. After reading Systems Engineering of Software-Enabled Systems (Fairley, 2019), the second book The Unicorn Project (Kim, 2019), became a quick favorite because it described a relevant area that was not part of systems engineers' typical experience.…”

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A Guide for Systems Engineers to Finding Your Role in 21^st‐Century Software‐Dominant Organizations

Sheard

Bouyaud²,

Osaisai

et al. 2021

INCOSE International Symp

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The decision makers in many software‐dominant organizations, such as the FAANGs (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google), evolved quickly from coders and software engineers unfamiliar with the advantage of the big‐picture view of the software and of the organizations developing the software. INCOSE's Systems and Software Interface Working Group (SaSIWG) has been reading a fable of such an organization that found itself in a typical terrible state, unable to respond quickly and effectively to customer needs, because it was tied up in a complex mess of silos, dependencies, management rules, and blame. While the book has garnered praise as the answer to many software organizations’ problems, it quite significantly omits any mention of systems engineering as well as much positive mention of architecture or project management. In response, the SaSIWG has been working on a set of tools to help first ourselves and then INCOSE systems engineers understand several important aspects of such organizations. First, how do such systems engineering‐deficient organizations work? Second, what does their terminology mean at a top level, in a way that doesn't take a computer science degree to understand or a day to look up? Third, how can a systems engineer break into the software engineering conversation and leave it without feeling defeated and overwhelmed by the unfamiliar jargon, but rather knowing they can be and have been useful? Finally, how can systems engineers plan in the long run to assist in engineering the complex system that is the software development enterprise and ecosystem? This is not always acknowledged as a system needing engineering, but it is universally acknowledged as “the problem” when it is not well engineered. This paper provides an overview of the tools that are being developed and outlines the guide that the group is hoping to create.

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