Chapter 10

Systems Management and Control

As mentioned many times in previous chapters, systems engineering is a well-defined, requirement-driven process that brings systems to life. With increasing levels of complexity, the system design life cycle could last for years, even decades, with hundreds or even thousands of people involved globally. There are many ways in which things could go wrong, as unexpected events occur almost all the time. Dealing with these uncertainties in a dynamic environment puts good planning and management efforts in demand. The systems engineering management plan (SEMP) is such a document that has been developed and widely adopted in complex systems design, to plan, schedule, and control system engineering design ...

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