Systems Engineering Competency Assessment Guide

SECAG GLOSSARY

This glossary defines words/phrases in the context of use within the Systems Engineering Competency Assessment Guide (SECAG). Several sources have been provided in some cases to aid explanation.

Where multiple potential definitions exist, the glossary definition is based upon definitions from the following sources, in the priority listed below:

1. INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook (Fourth Edition) (INCOSE 2015).
2. INCOSE Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) (BKCASE Project 2017).
3. INCOSE UK Ltd. Systems Engineering Competencies Framework (Issue 3) (INCOSE UK 2010).
4. Other well‐established internationally recognized sources.
5. INCOSE Competency Working Group.

Glossary Term	Definition
Ability	A term used in human resource management denoting an acquired or natural capacity or talent that enables an individual to perform a particular task successfully (BusinessDictionary.com 2018).
Architecture	(System) fundamental concepts or properties of a system in its environment embodied in its elements, relationships, and in the principles of its design and evolution (INCOSE 2015).
Architecting	Process of conceiving, defining, expressing, documenting, communicating, certifying proper implementation of, maintaining, and improving an architecture throughout a system's life cycle (ISO/IEC/IEEE 2011).The architecting process sometimes involves the use of heuristics to establish the form of architectural options before quantitative analyses can be applied. Heuristics ...