Accelerating System of Systems Engineering Understanding and Optimization through Lean Enterprise Principles

Minimize process waste. In general, there appears to
be no conscious effort to minimize process waste.
However, the SoSE teams have limited resources and
hence focus on the most value-adding activities to help
guide the evolution of the SoS. This means that they
do not tend to maintain information that is already
maintained by the single systems, they do not develop
comprehensive documentation at the SoS level, and
they only participate in constituent system activities
that are related to SoS capabilities and issues. Rather,
they tend to “pull” the information they need, on
demand, from the constituent systems. SoSE teams
realize that they cannot do everything and must
therefore decide which engineering and management
activities are necessary for the continued success and
evolution of the SoS,