[HN Gopher] Systems Engineering, or "why james gets paid"
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       Systems Engineering, or "why james gets paid"
        
       Author : stephendause
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2022-11-02 16:57 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | 0x445442 wrote:
       | What the author is describing is engineering and thus, orthogonal
       | to 90% of software projects in "The Enterprise" which tend to be
       | more of a Cargo Cult where information exists as Tribal
       | Knowledge.
        
       | stephendause wrote:
       | This is a blog post from a consultant I work with. I found it
       | helpful to get a basic grasp of how to manage the systems
       | engineering process in a way that is lightweight and flexible.
        
         | MilStdJunkie wrote:
         | I'm glad this exists. I've been a gadfly among a dozen or so
         | different "Top Down Systems Engineering Model Based"
         | organizations - circulating maybe a hundred different
         | management fads - and it's telling that the basic rules laid
         | out in the article I've rarely seen followed or even realized.
         | 
         | Except for one time, when the United States Army Aviation
         | Safety Office took the reins and corralled all the panicked
         | cats and dead-eyed MBA drones. The integrator that was in
         | charge is still one of my favorite engineers of all time. "The
         | hell this has forty parameters? It's fuel. Am I outta gas? Yes.
         | No. That's the parameter."
         | 
         |  _tosses paper down table, picks up next paper_.
         | 
         | Hammered out a doc system for that guy on the fly, something
         | that everyone could see without paying 50k in license costs,
         | and worked my ass off but felt better than I had in years. That
         | kind of magic doesn't happen often, but you gotta save it in
         | your mental cabinet of treasures when it does.
        
           | sitzkrieg wrote:
           | people like that put fulltime CAMEO mickey mouse modellers
           | out of business
        
       | Rochus wrote:
       | A look at a relevant systems engineering standard such as IEEE
       | 1220 and related literature (see e.g.
       | https://www.quora.com/Which-one-is-a-good-book-to-learn-Syst...)
       | is recommended. The field and its methods are well defined and
       | even standardized.
        
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