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Agile Systems Engineering
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Agile Systems Engineering

by Bruce Powel Douglass
September 2015
Intermediate to advanced
452 pages
11h 59m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 2

What Are Agile Methods and Why Should I Care?

Chapter 2 introduces agile methods and their application to systems engineering. Although agile methods arose in IT software development, they have begun to be applied——with good success—in other engineering disciplines as well. In order to understand how best to apply them to systems engineering, a good understanding of the basic agile concepts, methods, and approaches is necessary. This chapter outlines the Agile Manifesto and restates it to be more relevant to systems engineering, including identifying the important measure of success—verified engineering data. The benefits of agile approaches are explained with an emphasis on the difference it can make to systems engineers. Key methodological ...

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