Title: Mesh Model (MeMo): A Systematic Approach to Agile System Engineering,
Abstract: Innovation and entrepreneurship have a very special role to play in creating
sustainable development in the world. Engineering design plays a major role in
innovation. These are not new facts. However this added to the fact that in
current time knowledge seem to increase at an exponential rate, growing twice
every few months. This creates a need to have newer methods to innovate with
very little scope to fall short of the expectations from customers. In terms of
reliable designing, system design tools and methodologies have been very
helpful and have been in use in most engineering industries for decades now.
But traditional system design is rigorous and rigid. As we can see, we need an
innovation system that should be rigorous and flexible at the same time. We
take our inspiration from biosphere, where some of the most rugged yet flexible
plants are creepers which grow to create mesh. In this thematic paper we shall
explain our approach to system engineering which we call the MeMo (Mesh Model)
that fuses the rigor of system engineering with the flexibility of agile
methods to create a scheme that can give rise to reliable innovation in the
high risk market of today.