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Loss‐Driven Systems Engineering and Siloism
Author(s) -
Jackson Scott
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
insight
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-4868
pISSN - 2156-485X
DOI - 10.1002/inst.12318
Subject(s) - process (computing) , process management , product (mathematics) , knowledge management , systems engineering , engineering , work (physics) , engineering management , organizational structure , new product development , computer science , risk analysis (engineering) , business , management , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , marketing , economics , operating system
This article discusses the siloism concept in LDSE and the use of the integrated product team (IPT) concept to mitigate it. Siloism is any project team member's unwillingness to share information especially to mitigate conflicts and overlaps among project specialties. Failure to mitigate siloism potentially reduces the entire project's effectiveness. A recognized siloism mitigation method is employing the IPT concept. This concept uses organizational structure and rigorous management combined to encourage spcialty information sharing. Aligning the organizational project structure to the physical system architecture seeks close specialty cooperation. IPTs are part of the larger concept called Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) described in INCOSE's work (2015, 199‐203).