Why Reconsider Systems Engineering Methodology?

Key Issues Affecting the Engineering Process Engineering for evolving product families, product and production life cycles Personnel mobility Increasing System Complexity Shorter time to market and reduced design costs Communication between disciplines & blurred boundaries Requirements on Engineering Processes Design reuse supports shorter time to market and engineering for product families. Better system-wide documentation of design process and product supports engineering for production and product lifecycles, system compexity, and personnel mobility. Semi-automated systems for requirements analysis, validation and verification support increasing complexity, engineering for evolving product families, etc., shorter time to market and reduced design cost Emergence of a New Systems Engineering Methodology Software engineering discipline has responded by developing new Systems Engineering methodologies and tools. How can we expand this effort to cover other engineering disciplines and enterprises?