Product Management Should Be a Competency for Software Acquisition
Traditional requirements documentation for software-intensive military systems (e.g., command and control; intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting; and information operations) are insufficient, especially when the usual method of requirements decomposition and analysis takes years. The new Department of Defense (DoD) Software Acquisition Pathway, thankfully, affords most new software systems a ‘pass’ on the traditional requirements definition process (defined through the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System), possibly accelerating this process. If their ...