Paper #180 Engineering Agile Systems: Creative-Guidance Frameworks for Requirements and Design

Industrial-led research in the early nineties, searching for new competitive paradigms, launched today's interest in agile systems with a study centered at Lehigh University. Subsequent research went on to identify metrics, modalities, and engineering principles observed in systems that exhibited high degrees of adaptability in the face of unpredictable demands and requirements. This paper reviews that research and its findings as applicable to the engineering of agile systems. The confusion of agile systems with rapid-response systems is addressed, as is the confusion of agile-systems engineering with agile systems-engineering. Early framework tools for the engineering of agile systems are reviewed, and two additional framework tools are proposed to improve their use as creative-guidance