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Engineering Systems Integration
The sources for best practices come from any place where successful methods and techniques are discovered and used (INCOSE 2007).
Best practices are determined to be what is necessary to be successful.
Moreover, best practices are generally based on principles. For example, the
systems theory principle that systems can be conceptualized as self-reliant
entities that are simultaneously wholes and parts (Koestler 1968) is applied to
an issue for managing the project’s use of random access memory (RAM)
inside computers. By treating RAM as an integral part of the systems engineering process (reviewed at milestones and discussed in status meetings),
the reliability of a subsystem can be calculated based on architecting varying
degrees of parallel and series processing to manage the reliability of various
components in a computer or network. These allocations and reliability calculations assist the systems engineer to determine the real implications of
various allotments of memory. Further, the allocation and testing of RAM
can be coordinated across the development team and across the phases of
development. Since the context for RAM is often performance for products
and services, integration is particularly impacted should the allocation be
insufficient to buffer the required amount of data (i.e., may reduce performance) or is in excess of the needs for optimum data transfer (i.e., increases
costs and does not impact performance). In either case, the reliability of the
transfer process may be affetced because of throttling or overflow conditions
(Government 2005). For integration, the architecture is the essential guidepost—the roadmap for what is connected to what and how those connections facilitate or squash various system behaviors.
The imposition of following best practices as a dominant view in systems
engineer should make systems thinker wary. The reason for standards and
best practices is to create an environment of greater predictability in product and service developments that, while new in many aspects, push individual intellectualism to the edges of knowledge. Such projects are the
most daunting. New technologies may be immature at the beginning of
work and never rise to a level of predictability that endows it to be included
in the development effort. Integration of the outcomes of imperfect intellectualism or snarling, untameable technology is difficult and doomed.
That systems engineering is sometimes effective in delivering needed performance is often shadowed by costly overrun budgets and schedule slippages (Table 3.1).
Similar to a generalized framework for functions and physical entities,
processes are formulated as activities (and primal acts). Processes result in
decisions about what to do (in contrast to functions that are the behaviors
that the user wants to perform as a consequence of the product). Processes
describe the intentions of the architecture. As a process, integration is the
combining of a systematic series of actions that take place in a definite manner, directed to bring about a particular interaction between objects and sets
of objects.
Engineering Systems Integration
The sources for best practices come from any place where successful methods and techniques are discovered and used (INCOSE 2007).
Best practices are determined to be what is necessary to be successful.
Moreover, best practices are generally based on principles. For example, the
systems theory principle that systems can be conceptualized as self-reliant
entities that are simultaneously wholes and parts (Koestler 1968) is applied to
an issue for managing the project’s use of random access memory (RAM)
inside computers. By treating RAM as an integral part of the systems engineering process (reviewed at milestones and discussed in status meetings),
the reliability of a subsystem can be calculated based on architecting varying
degrees of parallel and series processing to manage the reliability of various
components in a computer or network. These allocations and reliability calculations assist the systems engineer to determine the real implications of
various allotments of memory. Further, the allocation and testing of RAM
can be coordinated across the development team and across the phases of
development. Since the context for RAM is often performance for products
and services, integration is particularly impacted should the allocation be
insufficient to buffer the required amount of data (i.e., may reduce performance) or is in excess of the needs for optimum data transfer (i.e., increases
costs and does not impact performance). In either case, the reliability of the
transfer process may be affetced because of throttling or overflow conditions
(Government 2005). For integration, the architecture is the essential guidepost—the roadmap for what is connected to what and how those connections facilitate or squash various system behaviors.
The imposition of following best practices as a dominant view in systems
engineer should make systems thinker wary. The reason for standards and
best practices is to create an environment of greater predictability in product and service developments that, while new in many aspects, push individual intellectualism to the edges of knowledge. Such projects are the
most daunting. New technologies may be immature at the beginning of
work and never rise to a level of predictability that endows it to be included
in the development effort. Integration of the outcomes of imperfect intellectualism or snarling, untameable technology is difficult and doomed.
That systems engineering is sometimes effective in delivering needed performance is often shadowed by costly overrun budgets and schedule slippages (Table 3.1).
Similar to a generalized framework for functions and physical entities,
processes are formulated as activities (and primal acts). Processes result in
decisions about what to do (in contrast to functions that are the behaviors
that the user wants to perform as a consequence of the product). Processes
describe the intentions of the architecture. As a process, integration is the
combining of a systematic series of actions that take place in a definite manner, directed to bring about a particular interaction between objects and sets
of objects.