Systems Engineering Guide

Did you ever wonder if your work needs to be enabled to support an international community? Have you anticipated that the security features of your engineering will have to interoperate with other federal agencies or organizations in the same department? Do performance characteristics of capabilities beyond your control impact the performance of your endeavor?
"Enterprises" are interwoven sets of mission and business endeavors that need to coexist in a rapidly changing and evolving world. MITRE systems engineers (SEs) are expected to bring an enterprise perspective to their activities at whatever scale of the enterprise they operate: subsystem, system, system of system, or enterprise. SEs should take a comprehensive viewpoint across technical and nontechnical aspects of the problem space and use systems thinking to ask probing questions and trace the implications of potential answers across the enterprise. SEs work with ambiguous issues and partial information to frame the essence of the problem, to create strategies that consider all aspects of the problems and needs of the sponsor and beyond, and to engineer scalable, adaptable, and evolvable enterprise solutions that consider the larger stakeholder community.