Just a note: systems engineering at NASA has it's own internal definition that is closer to a management role than a technical one. Source: am NASA engineer.
Related: MIT OpenCourseWare's 2005 Aircraft Systems Engineering is a lecture series with many of the Space Shuttle's various lead engineers.<p><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-885j-aircraft-systems-engineering-fall-2005/video-lectures/" rel="nofollow">http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-8...</a>
Now that's waterfall design. Show that to your scrum master.<p>Really. This is a manual for waterfall design of large, complex, one-off or small-quantity systems. Bridges and buildings are designed this way. It's slow, but it works. Errors in the requirements are really expensive to fix.
A great resource for systems engineering. I love this.<p>Source: am systems engineer for complex systems that can't go down and are heavily used by millions... but not as cool as NASA.