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9.1.4 Two Views of Systems Engineering: Project‐Centric and System Conception
Author(s) -
Ferris Timothy L.J.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2002.tb02481.x
Subject(s) - set (abstract data type) , systems thinking , computer science , system of systems engineering , management science , systems engineering , engineering , systems design , software engineering , artificial intelligence , programming language
Abstract This paper discusses two different approaches to understanding the nature and purpose of Systems Engineering. The two approaches to thinking about Systems Engineering involve, on one side, a project level view in which Systems Engineering is seen as a set of processes by which major, complex projects may be addressed and completed on time and on budget and on performance. The contrasting view centres about the conceptual issues of determination of how we can be confident that our projects are appropriate and useful. This paper exposes the two views of Systems Engineering and discusses the relationship between them. The two views are different, and have different emphases, and so are instructive in different ways, but are different views of the same thing. The two views are not opposed and do not, fundamentally, conflict.