ABSTRACT

Industry, government, and academic efforts to create a generalized systems engineering process have repeatedly fallen short. The outcome? Systems engineering failures that produce losses like the September 1999 destruction of the Mars Climate Orbiter. A simple information transfer error between teams motivated far-reaching managerial and technical

chapter chapter 1|6 pages

Introduction

chapter chapter 2|6 pages

Literature Search and Rationale for this Book

chapter chapter 3|12 pages

System Development Framework (SDF) Overview

chapter chapter 4|16 pages

The Rework Cycle

chapter chapter 5|52 pages

System Development Framework — Technical

chapter chapter 6|12 pages

The System Development Framework — Managerial

chapter chapter 7|6 pages

A Potpourri of SDF-Derived Principles