Integrating Loss-Driven Systems Engineering Activities

Loss-driven systems engineering activities are key to realizing successful systems. At the same time, loss-driven systems engineering assessments are, in most cases, complex. In real life projects, integrating loss-driven systems engineering activities in the system development activities might be difficult. In some cases, there is a lack of understanding the activities’ importance and sometimes there are organizational barriers. To overcome those barriers, we propose an approach based on widely accepted standards. The difficulty is most existing systems engineering standards poorly describe loss-driven systems engineering activities and how they integrate with traditional engineering activities. This paper provides an approach to successfully accomplish this integration. It is extremely important to involve loss-driven systems engineers in every life cycle phase. At the same time, achieving a common integrated approach understanding is necessary. © 2020 by David Endler. Published and used by INCOSE with permission.