V‐Model Views. Issue 1 (June 2013) - Scheithauer, Dieter
Abstract: The V‐model is the most popular iconic illustration within systems engineering. Originally derived from the waterfall model to give a notion of a system's architecture, the V‐model today is used widely in systems engineering training, and for communicating systems engineering ideas and concepts in the systems engineering community and beyond. The contemporary understanding of the V‐model is still based on definitions established more than two decades ago. Since then, systems engineering has advanced in directions beyond the systems engineering scenarios of the past. Systems‐of‐systems, value stream thinking in systems engineering, and systems engineering outreach into commercial sectors challenge the current common interpretation of the V‐model. It is the intention of this paper to establish a set of consistent V‐model views integrating central systems engineering concepts and maintaining the central role of the V‐model for communication within the systems engineering community and beyond.