2.4.3 Evolving Systems Engineering Processes: Moving from “What Systems Engineers Do” to “Engineering Systems“

Companies have documented systems engineering processes for years, in order to describe what the people they call “systems engineers” do to help product development. In an era of integrated processes, however, it becomes apparent that systems engineering is by its nature an integrating process. Therefore, true engineering of systems works better with an integrated set of engineering processes, within which are systems engineering roles. This paper describes why systems engineering processes are evolving in this manner, as well as how to evolve processes that describe what systems engineers do into an integrated set of processes for engineering systems.