Systems Engineering
"Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems". [INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook]
Systems Engineering is all about creating and sustaining successful, purposeful, systems
- Relates to the development and delivery of goods and services
- Delivers real benefits to the suppliers, customers, and society
- Works with all technical domains, and all business functions
The practice of Systems Engineering is a balance between Systemic and Systematic aspects:
- Systemic - thinking about the whole system, its context and stakeholders
- Systematic - following a structured approach to the realisation of the system
Systems engineers are the glue that enables a complex project to succeed
- “T-shaped people"
- Broad understanding across domains/disciplines
- Deep specialist competence in systems approaches
- May also have secondary disciplines
- MOST systems engineers are interesting, and inquisitive people open to new ideas