Cross-Domain Stakeholder-Alignment in Collaborative SoS - Lego® Serious Play® as a Boundary Object

Emerging areas such as Smart Grid, Industry 4.0 or Smart Cities are being challenged by an increasing complexity. In order to establish a sustainable System of Systems (SoS), the constituent systems have to meet their own requirements as well as the requirements of the SoS as a whole. However, to fu...

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Published in2021 16th International Conference of System of Systems Engineering (SoSE) pp. 108 - 113
Main Authors Kohlke, Julia, Hanna, Sebastian, Schutz, Johann
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 14.06.2021
Subjects
Complexity theory
Computer architecture
Knowledge
Lego® Serious Play
Requirements Engineering
Smart cities
Smart grids
Social sciences
Software
Stakeholders
Systems Engineering
Systems of Systems
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Summary:Emerging areas such as Smart Grid, Industry 4.0 or Smart Cities are being challenged by an increasing complexity. In order to establish a sustainable System of Systems (SoS), the constituent systems have to meet their own requirements as well as the requirements of the SoS as a whole. However, to fully grasp the requirements a cross-system, holistic and common perspective between all participants is required. Therefore, a major challenge of SoS Engineering (SoSE) lies in the alignment of all stakeholders and requirements towards a common and holistic perspective. To achieve such as cross-domain stakeholder-alignment, this research preview uses the boundary objects approach, which points out an alternative way in which different and conflicting stakeholders can exchange ideas and agree on common strategies for the development of SoS in project work. As it is well known from a variety of industrial and research projects in the field of Information Systems (IS), the consideration of knowledge boundaries is crucial to understand where difficulties arise in joint and cross-domain projects and to address them by using the boundary object approach. This research preview combines well-known but independent methods from systems engineering and social sciences into a software supported approach which fosters the System of Systems Engineering process throughout the entire life cycle. In particular, this paper proposes Lego® Serious Play® and Reference Architecture Models as boundary objects in order to create shared values for the stakeholders involved in SoS.
DOI:10.1109/SOSE52739.2021.9497469