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About the Author |
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Other Books by the Author |
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1 When and Where Possible, Go Back to Fundamentals (*) |
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2 Seriously Explore Alternatives, Even If Time Is Short |
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3 Embrace Prototyping as Well as Modeling and Simulation (M & S) |
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4 Cost-Effectiveness Is Still the Preferred Approach |
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Typical MOEs for Communication Systems |
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Selected MOEs for Transportation Systems |
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Limited MOEs for Air Defense Systems |
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5 Do Not Attempt to Integrate All Stovepipes |
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6 A Bit at a Time or All at Once |
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10 Definitely Measure, but Do Not Over-Measure |
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Overall Project Measurement |
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11 Under Promise and Over Deliver |
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12 Try to Improve Overall Systems Engineering Practices |
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14 Understanding the Enterprise |
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16 Industry/Government Interaction |
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Detection and False Alarm Probabilities |
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19 They Were Right: KISS, Simplify, and Reduce Complexity |
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20 Seek a Balanced System Solution; Do Not Try to Optimize or Achieve Perfection (*) |
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Other References to Balance |
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21 Understand the Power, Importance, and Challenge of Functional Decomposition |
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22 Break the Problem into Pieces Using the Reductionist Approach Whenever Possible, and Then Apply Lateral Thinking |
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23 Develop and Try a New Way of Architecting |
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The DoD Procedure for Developing Architecture |
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25 Try to Master New Tools and Use Them as Needed |
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Special Point-of-View Thinking |
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28 New Ideas to Be Explored |
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Rapid Computer-Aided Systems of Systems |
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New Method of Systems Architecting |
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National Aviation System (NAS) Model |
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Systems Engineering and Software Engineering |
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Emergent Properties of Systems |
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29 Building a Highly Productive Systems Engineering Team |
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Project Management and Leadership |
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A Systems Engineering Meeting |
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36 Becoming a Hi-Tech Manager |
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37 Dealing with Your Customer |
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Going to Lunch with Your Customer |
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Issuance of a New Task Order |
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Quick Response Capability |
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39 Hall, Goode, and Machol |
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41 Redundancy is Important and May Be Critical in Certain Systems |
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42 Rechtin's Heuristics Are Brilliant and Need to Be Studied and Followed |
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A Footnote to the IBM - Microsoft Story |
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46 Risk Analysis and Mitigation |
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Take Your Pick of Serial and Parallel Configurations |
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47 Change, Options Open, and Iteration |
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Configuration Control and Management |
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50 Vaillant, Turned into Lessons Considered |
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2 Modeling and Simulation |
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5 Industry Initiatives and Government Support |
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6 The Elders in Systems Engineering |
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7 Functional Decomposition |
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9 Risk Analysis and Mitigation |
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10 The Systems Approach and Systems Thinking |
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Index |
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