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resources, skills, and limitations. A specific plan and set of procedures will
be written to discuss project management given the constraints of project
scope, task schedules, task budgets, and available (and planned) skills.
Further, the customer and enterprise resources that are to be made available
will be allocated to the tasks. Milestones, reviews, and schedules for the
same will be proposed along with reporting and documentation requirements. Project metrics will be reflective of the enterprise metrics and tailored
to meet the specific needs of the project (and the customer).
Metrics are not about trade-offs between what best to do versus what is
expedient. Metrics are used to represent that state of being, the determinant
of “how is it going?” both in the minds of the integrators and that of the systems engineer(s) and project management. Metrics are about the shared
value of what the common goal needs to be. Never losing sight of that common goal is enlivening for customers, users, and the project team (the business or the enterprise).
General Nature of Objects
Capturing the full measure of actions that are enacted by the objects in economics, sociology, management, systems engineering, physics, and other
disciplines requires that the properties are delineated, the traits are identified, and the attributes are settled on early in the analysis for either building
a product or service or analyzing and evaluating an existing system. The
binding of the objects with their traits (conditions) and modifiers (attributes)
describe objects and interactions within the natural and human-built constructs; the determination of what is important to interactions (and therefore
integrations) between objects must be broadened beyond the sending of
energy and matter for the sake of only energy and matter, to include systems
for matters involving human and social issues. Social interactions, knowledge, and information are the primary elements of exchange (Burgin 2003).
Both material wealth (value) and information (patterns) are bounded (or constrained) by energy and matter, yet distinguishable from the energy and
matter that carry the value and patterns for social interactions. The transfer
of knowledge and information are enacted through physical matter and
energy constructs, as well as representing material wealth. For economic
transactions, material wealth is a primary element of exchange, with energy,
matter, and information concomitantly involved. The embodiment of material wealth is likewise through physical and energy constructs.
For “forces” other than physical, various disciplines have developed constructs similar in nature to those most familiar in physics and engineering
as being the impetus for change. Information processing acts as an economic force (Shaw 1990), the role of heads of families acts as a social force
Engineering Systems Integration
resources, skills, and limitations. A specific plan and set of procedures will
be written to discuss project management given the constraints of project
scope, task schedules, task budgets, and available (and planned) skills.
Further, the customer and enterprise resources that are to be made available
will be allocated to the tasks. Milestones, reviews, and schedules for the
same will be proposed along with reporting and documentation requirements. Project metrics will be reflective of the enterprise metrics and tailored
to meet the specific needs of the project (and the customer).
Metrics are not about trade-offs between what best to do versus what is
expedient. Metrics are used to represent that state of being, the determinant
of “how is it going?” both in the minds of the integrators and that of the systems engineer(s) and project management. Metrics are about the shared
value of what the common goal needs to be. Never losing sight of that common goal is enlivening for customers, users, and the project team (the business or the enterprise).
General Nature of Objects
Capturing the full measure of actions that are enacted by the objects in economics, sociology, management, systems engineering, physics, and other
disciplines requires that the properties are delineated, the traits are identified, and the attributes are settled on early in the analysis for either building
a product or service or analyzing and evaluating an existing system. The
binding of the objects with their traits (conditions) and modifiers (attributes)
describe objects and interactions within the natural and human-built constructs; the determination of what is important to interactions (and therefore
integrations) between objects must be broadened beyond the sending of
energy and matter for the sake of only energy and matter, to include systems
for matters involving human and social issues. Social interactions, knowledge, and information are the primary elements of exchange (Burgin 2003).
Both material wealth (value) and information (patterns) are bounded (or constrained) by energy and matter, yet distinguishable from the energy and
matter that carry the value and patterns for social interactions. The transfer
of knowledge and information are enacted through physical matter and
energy constructs, as well as representing material wealth. For economic
transactions, material wealth is a primary element of exchange, with energy,
matter, and information concomitantly involved. The embodiment of material wealth is likewise through physical and energy constructs.
For “forces” other than physical, various disciplines have developed constructs similar in nature to those most familiar in physics and engineering
as being the impetus for change. Information processing acts as an economic force (Shaw 1990), the role of heads of families acts as a social force