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Systems and the SLC Session 1 (COSE Lesson 26)

Module 4. Systems and the SLC

This module notes that situations arise in systems, products and processes are both systems and that systems development passes through several states of the SLCs known as the systems development process (SDP) or sometimes as the systems engineering process.

Contents

  1. The nature of systems
  2. Basic system behaviour
  3. Emergence
  4. Hierarchies of systems
  5. Functional view of a system
  6. A little-known template for a system which reduces complexity and simplifies system creation and operation
  7. How to successfully optimize systems and avoid the systems optimization paradox
  8. Ways of creating systems for managing complexity
  9. The system lifecycle

Notes

  • 0401-1 Introduction to systems and the systems lifecycle (Version 3.4.6)

Reading

  • 0402 Kasser J.E., Holistic Thinking: Chapter 7, The nature of systems, Createspace, 2015

References