Engineering Systems Division (ESD) Working Paper Series: Recent submissions

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    • Institutional Foundations for Cyber Security: Current Responses and New Challenges 

      Choucri, Nazli; Madnick, Stuart E.; Ferwerda, Jeremy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-11)
      Almost everyone recognizes the salience of cyberspace as a fact of daily life. Given its ubiquity, scale, and scope, cyberspace has become a fundamental feature of the world we live in and has created a new reality for ...

    • Using System Dynamics to Analyze the Effect of Funding Fluctuation on Software Development 

      Trammell, Travis; Madnick, Stuart E.; Moulton, Allen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-10)
      Almost everyone understands that budget fluctuations have an impact on software development, but it is difficult to estimate the magnitude of the impact and all the causes. This paper uses System Dynamics modeling to examine ...

    • Agile Project Dynamics: A System Dynamics Investigation of Agile Software Development Methods 

      Glaiel, Firas S.; Moulton, Allen; Madnick, Stuart E. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-10)
      While Agile software development has many advocates, acceptance in the government and defense sectors has been limited. To address questions of meanings to the term “Agile,” we examine a range of Agile methods practiced ...