Tightening the Linkage of CSE and Software Systems Engineering

As an analytical framework, Cognitive systems engineering (CSE) is gaining a growing presence in systems engineering. It is continuing to be adopted by more practitioners as a means to analyze complex user work, including team and collaborative work issues. It has also been recognized to be a valuable tool by acquisition agencies for the purpose of evaluating responses to proposals and early design products. In short, there is increasing evidence that the CSE analytic approach, along with user case methods, is being considered as a “method of choice” for accomplishing a work analysis, especially during the conceptual design phase of development.