Other Useful Resources

If you are interested in discovering more about systems engineering, you may find the following resources useful. We provide a list of the
major INCOSE products including the Systems Engineering Handbook (SEHDBK), major relevant standards, and the principal books on the
topics of systems (and software) engineering; requirements engineering; and verification, validation, and test and evaluation.

INCOSE Products
INCOSE, Systems Engineering Handbook, version 4. San Diego, CA, USA: International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).
INCOSE-TP-2003-002-04, 2015.

BKCASE Editorial Board. 2015. The Guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK), v. 1.5., R.D. Adcock (EIC). Hoboken,
NJ: The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology. www.sebokwiki.org.

M. Ryan and L. Wheatcraft, Guide for Writing Requirements, INCOSE Technical Product INCOSE-TP-2010-006-02, 1 July 2015.

INCOSE, Journal of the International Council on Systems Engineering, Seattle, W.A.: International Council on Systems Engineering.

INCOSE, Proceeding of Annual Conference, Seattle, W.A.: International Council on Systems Engineering.

See also the INCOSE web site: http://www.incose.org/ for other useful products and resources

Standards
ANSI/EIA-632-1998, EIA Standard—Processes for Engineering a System, Arlington, V.A.: Electronic Industries Association, 1999.

IEEE-STD-1220-2005, IEEE Standard for Application and Management of the Systems Engineering Process, New York: IEEE Computer
Society, 2005.
MIL-STD-498, Military Standard: Software Development and Documentation, Washington D.C.: United States of America Department of
Defense, 1994.

MIL-STD-499B, Military Standard—Systems Engineering—Draft, Washington D.C.: United States of America Department of Defense, 1994.

ISO/IEC 15288-2015, Systems and Software Engineering—System Life Cycle Processes, 2015.

ISO/IEC, ISO/IEC 29148, FDIS, Systems and Software Engineering—Life Cycle Processes—Requirements Engineering, 2011.

International Institute for Business Analysis, A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide), Version 2, 2009.

ANSI/AIAA G-043A-2012, Guide for the Preparation of Operational Concept Descriptions, American National Standards Institute, American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (sponsor), 2012.

Books

Books on Systems (and Software) Engineering

Abran, A. and J.W. Moore, (eds), Software Engineering Body of Knowledge: 2004 Version, IEEE Computer Society, 2004.

Aslaksen E.W., Designing Complex Systems: Foundations of Design in the Functional Domain, Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2008.

Aslaksen E.W. and R. Belcher, Systems Engineering, Sydney: Prentice Hall, 1992.

Beam, W., Systems Engineering: Architecture and Design, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1990.

Bellagamba, L., Systems Engineering and Architecting: Creating Formal Requirements, Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2012.

Blanchard, B., Logistics Engineering and Management, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.

Blanchard, B., Systems Engineering Management, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2008.
Blanchard, B. and W. Fabrycky, Systems Engineering and Analysis, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2011.

Buede, D.M., The Engineering Design of Systems: Models and Methods, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

Defense Systems Management College (DSMC), Systems Engineering Management Guide, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1990.

Eisner, H., Essentials of Project and Systems Engineering Management, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

Goode, H.H. and R.E. Machol, Systems Engineering: An Introduction to the Design of Large-scale Systems, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill,
1957.

Grady, J.O., System Management: Planning, Enterprise Identity, and Deployment, Boca Raton, F.L.: CRC Press, 2010.

Grady, J.O., Systems Integration, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1994.

Heap, G., J Stanway, and A. Windsor, A Structured Approach to Systems Development, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1992.

Hitchins, D., Putting Systems to Work, Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, 1992.

Hitchins, D., Advanced Systems Thinking, Engineering, and Management, Norwood, M.A.: Artech House, 2003.

Hitchins, D., Systems Engineering: A 21st Century Systems Methodology, Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

Jenney, J., M. Gangl, R. Kwolek, D. Melton, N. Ridenour, and M. Coe, Modern Methods of Systems Engineering, CreateSpace Independent
Publishing Platform, 2011.

Kamrani, A.K. and M. Azimi, Systems Engineering Tools and Methods, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2011.

Kasser, J.E., A Framework for Understanding Systems Engineering, Cranfield UK: The Right Requirement Ltd, 2007.
Khisty, C.J. and J. Mohammadi, Fundamentals of Systems Engineering With Economics, Probability, and Statistics, Upper Saddle River,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 2001.

Kossiakoff, A., W.N. Sweet, S.J. Seymour and S.M. Biemer, Systems Engineering Principles and Practice, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley &
Sons, 2011.

Maier, M. and E. Rechtin, The Art of Systems Architecting, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2009.

Martin, J., Systems Engineering Guidebook: A Process for Developing Systems and Products, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1997.

McConnell, S., Software Project Survival Guide, Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press, 1998.

Parnell, G.S., P.J. Driscoll, and D.L. Henderson (eds), Decision Making in Systems Engineering and Management, Hoboken, NJ: John
Wiley & Sons, 2008.

Sage, A. and J. Armstrong, Introduction to Systems Engineering, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Sage, A. and W. Rouse (eds), Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

Stevens, R., P. Brook, K. Jackson, and S. Arnold, Systems Engineering: Coping with Complexity, Hertfordshire, England: Prentice Hall
Europe, 1998.

Sydenham, P.H., Systems Approach to Engineering Design, Norwood, MA: Artech House, 2004.

Wasson, C., System Analysis, Design, and Development, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006.

Weinberg, G.M. and D. Weinberg, General Principles of Systems Design, New York, NY: Dorset House Publishing, 1979.

Weinberg, G.M., An Introduction to General Systems Thinking, New York, NY: Dorset House Publishing, 2001.

Westerman, H., Systems Engineering Principles and Practice, Boston, MA: Artech House, 2001.
Lacy, J., Systems Engineering Management: Achieving Total Quality, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1992.

Books on Requirements Engineering

Adzic, G., Specification by Example, Shelter Island NY: Manning Publications Co., 2011.

Alexander I.F. and L. Beus-Dukic, Discovering Requirements: How to Specify Products and Services, Chichester, England: John Wiley &
Sons, 2007.

Alexander I.F. and R. Stevens, Writing Better Requirements, London: Addison Wesley, 2002.

Andriole, S., Managing Systems Requirements: Methods, Tools and Cases, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.

Aurum, A. and C. Wohlin, (eds), Engineering and Managing Software Requirements, Springer, 2005.

Berenbach, B., D.J. Paulish, J. Kazmeier, and A. Rudorfer, Software and Systems Requirements Engineering in Practice, New York:
McGraw-Hill, 2009.

Bray I.K., An Introduction to Requirements Engineering, Boston, MA: Addison Wesley, 2002.

Cockburn, A., Writing Effective Use Cases, Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2001.

Davis, A.M., Software Requirements: Analysis and Specification, Engelwood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall International, 1990.

Davis, A.M., Software Requirements: Objects, Functions and States, Engelwood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall International, 1993.

Davis, A.M., Just Enough Requirements Management: Where Software Development Meets Marketing, New York, NY: Dorset House
Publishing, 2005.

Dorfman, M. and R.H. Thayer, System and Software Requirements Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1990.

Ferdinandi, P.L., A Requirements Pattern: Succeeding in the Internet Economy, Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2001.
Fitchett, P. and J. Haslam, Writing Engineering Specifications, London, UK: Spon Press, 1988.

Gause, D. and G. Weinberg, Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design, New York: Dorset House Publishing Company Incorporated,
1989.

Gilb, T., Competitive Engineering: A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using
Planguage, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005.

Goldsmith, R.F., Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success, Norwood, M.A: Artech House, 2004.

Gottesdiener, E., Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs, Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 2002.

Grady, J.O., System Requirements Analysis, Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 2006.

Hass, K.B., D.J. Wessels, and K. Brennan, Getting it Right: Business Requirement Analysis Tools and Techniques, Vienna, VA:
Management Concepts, 2008.

Hatley, D.J., P. Hruschka, and I.A. Pirbhai, Process for System Architecture and Requirements Engineering, New York: Dorset House
Publishing Company, 2000.

Hay, D.C., Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.

Hood, C., S. Wiedemann, S. Fichtinger, and U. Pautz, Requirements Management: The Interface Between Requirements Development and
All other Systems Engineering Processes, Oberhaching: Springer, 2008.

Hooks, I.F. and K.A. Farry, Customer-centred Products: Creating Successful Products Through Smart Requirements Management, New
York: AMACOM, 2001.

Hossenlopp, R. and K.B. Hass, Unearthing Business Requirements: Elicitation Tools and Techniques, Vienna, VA: Management Concepts,
2008.

Hull, M.E.C., K. Jackson, and A.J.J. Dick, Requirements Engineering, London: Springer, 2011.
Jackson, M., Software Requirements and Specifications: A Lexicon of Software Practice, Principles and Prejudices, Reading, MA: Addison
Wesley, 1995.

Jonasson, H., Determining Project Requirements: Mastering the BABOK® and the CBAP® Exam, Boca Raton, FL: Auerbach Publications,
2012.

Kotonya, G. and I. Sommerville, Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques, Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Kulak, D. and E. Guiney, Use Cases: Requirements in Context, Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2004.

Laplante, P.A., Requirements Engineering for Software and Systems, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2009.

Larson, E. and R. Larson, Practitioner’s Guide to Requirements Engineering—Part 1: Requirements Planning, Minneapolis, MN: Watermark
Learning Publications, 2009.

Leffingwell, D. and D. Widrig, Managing Software Requirements: A Unified Approach, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2000.

Leffingwell, D., Agile Software Requirements: Lean requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise, Reading, MA:
Addison-Wesley, 2011.

Loucopoulos, P. and V. Karakostas, System Requirements Engineering, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Lutowski, R., Software Requirements: Encapsulation, Quality, and Reuse, Boca Raton, FL: Taylor and Francis, 2005.

Macaulay, L., Requirements Engineering, London, England: Springer, 1996.

Mate, J.L. and A. Silva (editors), Requirements Engineering for Sociotechnical Systems, Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing,
2005.

Pohl, K. and C. Rupp, Requirements Engineering Fundamentals, Santa Barbara CA: Rocky Nook, 2011.

Pohl, K., Requirements Engineering: Fundamentals, Principles, and Techniques, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2010.
Purdy, D., A Guide to Writing Successful Engineering Specifications, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.

Rinzler, B., Telling Stories: A Short Path to Writing Better Software Requirements, Wiley, 2009.

Robertson S., and J. Robertson, Requirements-led Project Management: Discovering David’s Slingshot, Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2005.

Robertson S., and J. Robertson, Mastering the Requirements Process, Harlow, England: Addison-Wesley, 2013.

Sommerville, I., and P. Sawyer, Requirements Engineering, Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Thayer, R.H. and M. Dorfman (editors), Software Requirements Engineering, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997.

van Lamsweerde, A., Requirements Engineering: From System Goals to UML Models to Software Specifications, Chichester, England:
John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

Wiegers, K.E., Software Requirements, Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 2003.

Wieringa, R., Requirements Engineering: Frameworks for Understanding, Wiley, 1996.

Wiley, W., Essential System Requirements: A Practical Guide to Event-Driven Methods, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2000.

Withall, S., Software Requirements Patterns (Best Practices), Redmond, MA: Microsoft Press, 2007.

Young, R., Effective Requirements Practices, Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2001.

Young, R., The Requirements Engineering Handbook, Norwood, M.A: Artech House, 2004.

Young, R., Project Requirements: A Guide to Best Practices, Vienna VA: Management Concepts, 2006.

Verification and Validation / Test and Evaluation

Freedman, D.P. and G.M. Weinberg, Walkthroughs, Inspections, and Technical Reviews: Evaluating Programs, Projects, and Products,
New York, N.Y.: Dorset House Publishing, 1990.

Engel, A., Verification, Validation, and Testing of Engineered Systems, Hoboken, NJ (US): Wiley, 2010.

Giadrosich, D.L., Operations Research and Analysis in Test and Evaluation, Washington, D.C.: AIAA, 1995.

Grady, J.O., System Verification: Proving the Design Solution Satisfies the Requirements, Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 2007.

Hubbard, D.W., How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business, Wiley, 2010.

National Research Council, Statistics, Testing and Defense Acquisition: New Approaches and Methodological Improvements, Cohen, M.L.,
J.E. Rolph, and D.L. Steffey (eds), Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1998.

Rakitin, S.R., Software Verification and Validation for Practitioners and Managers, Norwood, MA: Artech House, 2001.

Reynolds, M.T., Test and Evaluation of Complex Systems, Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1996.

Roache, P.J., Fundamentals of Verification and Validation, Socorro, NM: Hermosa Publishers, 2009.

Rodriguez, E., Engineering Test Principles for Operational Suitability, Hampton, V.A.: A. Deepak Publishing, 1992.

Stevens, R.T., Operational Test & Evaluation: A Systems Engineering Process, Malibar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 1986.