Towards a Systems Engineering Essence
This work addresses the need for a formal approach to systems engineering method description, but it is incremental as it tweaks an existing framework rather than introducing a new paradigm.
The paper tackles the problem of adapting the SEMAT/OMG Essence framework, originally for software development, to describe systems engineering methods by harmonizing it with existing standards, resulting in a modified Kernel for engineering solutions while preserving the Language.
SEMAT/OMG Essence provides a powerful Language and a Kernel for describing software development processes. How can it be tweaked to apply it to systems engineering methods description? We must harmonize Essence and various systems engineering standards in order to provide a more formal system approach to obtaining a Systems Engineering Essence. In this paper, an approach of using Essence for systems engineering is presented. In this approach we partly modified a Kernel only within engineering solution area of concerns and completely preserved Language as an excellent situational method engineering foundation.