The Systems Engineering Started in the Middle Process: A Consensus of Systems Engineers and Project Managers

The systems engineering process often begins somewhere in the middle of a project. Naturally, the systems engineering process should be different for a project where systems engineering starts in the middle versus a project where it starts at the beginning of the project. This article presents a consensus of senior systems engineers and project managers at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and Raytheon Missile Systems about how systems engineering is done when it starts in the middle of a project. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Syst Eng 4: 156–167, 2001