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The Whole Nine Yards of Systems Engineering: Stakeholders and enabling / realization systems

2018; Wiley; Volume: 28; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/j.2334-5837.2018.00555.x

2334-5837

Richard Beasley, Andrew C Pickard, Iain Cardow, Jon Symons,

Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management

Abstract This paper explores how a Systems Engineer, during the development of a system, needs to convert their focus from considering the stakeholders of the system to becoming a stakeholder themselves. In particular, the paper explores the outflow of derived needs, not only to other elements of the system, but out to the realization or enabling systems. An extension to James Martin's classic 7 Samurai systems is made, adding consideration of a Business Execution system to create and deliver the solution (including engagement with the realization systems), and the layers of Enterprise system management to control multiple projects (and possibly sectors). This leads to identification of 9 systems involved in a system delivery – “the whole nine yards of Systems Engineering”. The implications of the interaction with the realization systems to both Program Management and the modelling are reviewed. In most companies, where there is more than one solution produced the realization systems are shared, and therefore must be considered as a complex, rather than complicated, capability system supporting the solution delivery.