Software Engineering Institute

Agile Software Teams: How they Engage with Systems Engineering on Department of Defense Acquisition Programs

November 24, 2014 • Blog

Eileen Wrubel

Tension and disconnects between software and systems engineering functions are not new. Grady Campbell wrote in 2004 that "systems engineering and software engineering need to overcome a conceptual incompatibility (physical versus informational views of a system)" and that systems engineering decisions can create or contribute to software risk if they "prematurely over-constrain software engineering choices" or "inadequately communicate information, including unknowns and uncertainties, needed for effective software engineering." This tension holds true for Department of...

Read More