Survey of Agile Systems Engineering Methods, Practices and Tools

Survey:  If you meet the stated criteria listed below, please complete the survey by clicking on the following link:

AGILE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SURVEY

Many system engineering programs are facing an increased emphasis on rapidly developing products and services to meet immediate, mission-critical needs. As a result, development cycles are more often being measured in months or weeks. Traditional system engineering approaches are being pressed into service to address these challenges, but the fit is not always good. Unfortunately, there has so far been only limited research into the unique challenges of these environments and the “agile” system engineering approaches that can address them. To address this need, the Systems Engineering Research Center is gathering preliminary data on system engineering methods, processes, and tools that are being successfully used in such environments.

• The product development environment has an emphasis on quick-reaction to stakeholder needs or short/critical time-to-market cycles.

• Requirements are often unstable because of changes in the operating environment.

• Capabilities delivered to stakeholders are dependent on other existing deployed systems.

• The developed capabilities will be deployed in a wide range of operating environments.

• The product development environment often operates independently of other product development efforts within the organization.

• Changes in requirements for system upgrades are common once the initial capability is delivered to the stakeholder.

Attribution
The survey is non-attributional -- Your answers will not be released individually, only as collected data across all surveys. If you choose to provide your email address, we will add you to a list of people interested in agile systems engineering that will be sent out when the survey closes.

Benefits of Participation
For your participation in this survey, we will share with you the final summarized results of all the survey respondents. We expect this will be an interesting and thought-provoking collection of successful practices from members of the workforce pushing the envelope in response to these challenges. We will also provide a list of organizations who took part in the survey.

Note: This is an invitation-only survey and is password protected. If you are interested in participating and have not received an invitation with the password, please request one by sending an email to Dr. Richard Turner, Distinguished Service Professor, at rturner@stevens.edu.