Technical Report
Agile and Lean Systems Engineering: Kanban in Systems Engineering
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Systems Engineering and Systems Management Transformation
Report Number: SERC-2011-TR-022-1
Publication Date: 2011-12-31
Project:
Agile-Lean Software Engineering Evaluating Kanban In SE
Principal Investigators:
Dr. Richard Turner
Co-Principal Investigators:
Dr. Raymond Madachy
This research project evaluates the use of on-demand (pull or kanban) scheduling
approaches in systems engineering. In particular, this initial phase focuses on systems
engineering where rapid response software development projects incrementally evolve
capabilities of existing systems and/or systems of systems. It defines and models a
kanban-based scheduling system and a services approach to systems engineering among
software projects in such an environment. It then reports on simulation of their
performance and those of traditional SE methods to understand if systems engineering
functions are accomplished more effectively and efficiently, and whether the overall
value of the systems of systems over time is increased.