Outside of teaching and planned consulting, one of the things I get to do at Vitech is answer the methodology questions that come in each day from our customers. One of the more common questions we’ve been fielding lately is “How does interface development work in CORE 9?” CORE 9 …

At its recent International Symposium the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) released its Systems Engineering Vision 2025 report titled aptly “A World In Motion.” This document is a bold and forward-thinking vision of an exciting future. On the surface it appears innocuous enough. However, it is only on close …

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In thinking about systems engineering we often set up a framework in which engineering receives a much stronger emphasis than the system aspects of the discipline. The INCOSE definition of systems engineering sets it apart from other engineering disciplines. In part it calls systems engineering, “. . . an engineering …