Category: INCOSE

Notable Systems Engineer Jim Long Receives Pioneer Award

The Vitech team was proud to learn Monday at the International Council of Systems Engineering’s International Symposium in Washington, D.C. that Jim Long, influential mentor and longtime leader at Vitech, was honored with the Posthumous Pioneer Award. The award recognizes an individual who has made an outsize contribution to the …

A Twelve-Step Program for Systems Engineers

According to Psychology Today, “Addiction is a condition in which a person engages in use of a substance or in a behavior for which the rewarding effects provide a compelling incentive to repeatedly pursue the behavior despite detrimental consequences.” Addictions operate to block our view of reality as we focus …

5 Standards for Choosing a Tool and Approach

Complexity is nothing new to systems engineers and managers. The discipline of systems engineering evolved to improve our ability to deal with scale, interdependency, and complexity in systems development. Few systems engineers would doubt that complexity is increasing every year. The rate of change, the increasing interdependence and adaptability of …