TY - JOUR
T1 - Systems Engineers' Effectiveness in an Organization
T2 - Text and Visual Analytics Approach
AU - Zavala, Araceli
AU - Soneji, Shikha
AU - Kothari, Suchita
AU - Ramirez-Marquez, Jose Emmanuel
AU - Tao, Hoong Yan See
AU - Hutchison, Nicole
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - The Helix project is a multiyear longitudinal research study focus on understanding what makes systems engineers effective. The Helix team gathered data through interviews, site visits, and surveys with individuals who are doing systems engineering (SE) work on programs, supervising systems engineers, using products from systems engineers, and are knowledgeable about SE. The responses provided by the participants were documented and analyzed using text mining techniques, such as topic modeling and word similarity. To interpret the results, the team developed several visualizations from three scenarios, full corpus, by organization type, and by domain. The visuals show the common language among systems engineers within topics and the relationship between words from the three scenarios mentioned above. Also, the article provides insights into what enables systems engineers to be proficient or effective in their organizations.
AB - The Helix project is a multiyear longitudinal research study focus on understanding what makes systems engineers effective. The Helix team gathered data through interviews, site visits, and surveys with individuals who are doing systems engineering (SE) work on programs, supervising systems engineers, using products from systems engineers, and are knowledgeable about SE. The responses provided by the participants were documented and analyzed using text mining techniques, such as topic modeling and word similarity. To interpret the results, the team developed several visualizations from three scenarios, full corpus, by organization type, and by domain. The visuals show the common language among systems engineers within topics and the relationship between words from the three scenarios mentioned above. Also, the article provides insights into what enables systems engineers to be proficient or effective in their organizations.
KW - Effectiveness
KW - systems engineering (SE)
KW - text mining
KW - topic modeling
KW - visualization
KW - word similarity
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U2 - 10.1109/JSYST.2020.2969359
DO - 10.1109/JSYST.2020.2969359
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097091027
SN - 1932-8184
VL - 14
SP - 5049
EP - 5060
JO - IEEE Systems Journal
JF - IEEE Systems Journal
IS - 4
M1 - 9001119
ER -