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Integrated Data as the Foundation of SE – Part 4b

Posted on: December 15th, 2016 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

In this second section of part 4, I introduce key concepts from big data including: data governance, information technology, and data management. These are probably new concepts few systems engineers have thought about – let alone addressed in their organization … Read More

Stakeholders! Why can’t they just tell me exactly what they want?

Posted on: December 8th, 2016 by Cheryl Hill No Comments

“It takes less time to do something right than to explain why it was done wrong.” –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  Project teams build software, systems and products for people to use or consume.  So why is it that many project teams … Read More

Integrated Data as the Foundation of SE – Part 4a

Posted on: December 1st, 2016 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

Practicing SE from a data-Centric Perspective This is part 4 of the blog series “Integrated Data as the Foundation of Systems Engineering. In part 3, Systems Engineering: A Data-Centric Perspective, I introduced and defined the concept of practicing SE from … Read More

Integrated Data as the Foundation of SE – Part 3b

Posted on: November 15th, 2016 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

Integrated Data as a Foundation for Systems Engineering This is a continuation of part 3a of this blog series.  In the first section, I discussed the SE work products and underlying data and information that are generated as part of … Read More

Integrated Data as the Foundation of SE – Part 3a

Posted on: November 1st, 2016 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

Systems Engineering: A Data-Centric Perspective This is part 3a of the blog series “Integrated Data as the Foundation of Systems Engineering. In Part 2, The Need for Systems Engineering I addressed the need for SE, challenges associated with increasingly complex … Read More