Systems Engineering
System engineering can best be explained as coordinating multiple tasks within the two disciplines of engineering and engineering management. This paper highlights the systems method of coordinated tasks and its relevance concerning current and future business system life cycles: concept, design, planning, testing, optimization, and deployment. It defines the boundaries necessary for a robust life cycle and analysis to occur.
4. Requirements Types
4.15 Flexibility/Adaptability
This is the ability of the system to adapt to new tasks or functions, or different performance levels for the original tasks, than first designed for. Similar requirements come under names like Extension, which is adding new tasks or functions while keeping the original ones, or Agility, which is concerned with how fast the system can adapt. Reconfiguration is the ability to change the arrangement of a system to perform a different function. An example is the Curiosity rover, which had one physical shape and software load to cover travel to and landing on Mars, and a different arrangement of wheels, camera mast, and software for surface operations. The change of state was accomplished by a combination of mechanical design, planned sequence, and new software upload.