Why not SCRUM?

• Author: Tolk, Andreas
• Position: READERS'FORUM

* The May 2010 article, "Without Radical Change, Many More Defense Programs Will End Up Like JSF," looks at JCIDS (joint capabilities integration and developing system) and REF (rapid equipping force) as alternatives, or as if we have to give up the quality of JCIDS to gain the time efficiency using REF.

However, private industry and academia are providing an alternative that may be of even higher interest, as it ensures high quality services allowing agile systems that react almost immediately to changing requirements: SCRUM.

[SCRUM is a framework for project management and agile software development widely used in the software industry.]

While the traditional approach still taught in most systems engineering schools evaluates requirements in the beginning, starting with deriving the system requirements from operational requirements...