systems also known as systems of systems (SoS) have faced obstacles adopting agile methodologies. According to
recent studies5,8 major obstacles for agile development in an SoS environment include a lack of visibility of
capability status at the top levels of the SoS organization and a lack of insights into issues preventing the completion
of SoS capabilities. As a result, a Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) research team conceptualized an
approach based on lean principles, the Kanban-based scheduling system (KSS), to address these challenges. This
research8 proposed to use a multi-tiered Kanban-based process for these interdependent enterprise-wide systems or
SoS. In order to further evolve and mature this concept and evaluate the potential effectiveness of the proposed
Kanban-based scheduling system, the University of Southern California (USC) Center for Systems and Software
Engineering (CSSE) developed a KSS simulation model. This paper describes the KSS concepts, the proposed KSS
simulation model to evaluate potential KSS performance, and early results from the KSS simulator.