LEVERAGING INCOSE RESOURCES TO IDENTIFY SYSTEMS ENGINEERING BEST PRACTICES

The ability to leverage best practices from industry, academia, and government programs can save a great deal of time and effort in the development and management of complex systems. Leveraging such knowledge requires easy access to information so technical teams can readily tailor and use these best practices to avoid pitfalls and rework, thereby improving the system development process and its output—the system of interest. The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) provides a wealth of reviewed and refined Systems Engineering best practices, lessons learned, and methods that can be used for this very purpose. The objective of this article is to provide an overview of INCOSE’s resources and how one can leverage them to aid in complex system development to ultimately improve system performance.