- Science determines what IS…
- Component engineering determines what CAN BE…
- Systems engineering determines what SHOULD BE.
Systems Engineering is a holistic, product oriented engineering discipline whose responsibility is to create and execute an interdisciplinary process to ensure that customer and stakeholder needs are satisfied in a high quality, trustworthy, cost efficient and schedule compliant manner throughout a system’s life cycle.
Much of the agile world can learn from how Systems Engineering is applied to software intensive products in domains outside the internal IT development shop.
