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Agility Problems in Traditional Systems Engineering - A Case Study

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Complex Systems Design & Management

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Well-established systems engineering approaches are becoming more inadequate as today’s systems are becoming more complex, more global, more COTS/re-use based and more evolving. Increased level of outsourcing, significant amount of subcontractors, more integration than development, reduced project cycles, ecosystem like collaborative developments, software product lines and global development are some of the changes in the project life cycle approaches. In this paper, we present the results of an exploratory case study which tries to identify the agility problems in large scale software intensive defense projects. This is the first step of our research in which the overall objective is to improve the agility attributes of the traditional systems engineering approach.

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  1. EADS Deutschland GmbH., Landshuter Str. 26, D-85716, Unterschleissheim, Germany

    Emrah Asan

  2. Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 06800, Ankara, Turkey

    Semih Bilgen

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  3. Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, 91128, France

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Asan, E., Bilgen, S. (2013). Agility Problems in Traditional Systems Engineering - A Case Study. In: Aiguier, M., Caseau, Y., Krob, D., Rauzy, A. (eds) Complex Systems Design & Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34404-6_4

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