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Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,318 ratings — published 2008
Systems Engineering Principles and Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.60 — 80 ratings — published
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.95 — 668 ratings — published 1975
SysML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Systems Modeling Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.96 — 112 ratings — published 2013
Systems Architecture: Strategy and Product Development for Complex Systems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.38 — 50 ratings — published 2015
Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety (Engineering Systems)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.17 — 88 ratings — published 2012
System Engineering Management (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.89 — 37 ratings — published 1991
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,016 ratings — published 1977
INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook: A Guide for System Life Cycle Processes and Activities (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.68 — 44 ratings — published
A Practical Guide to SysML: The Systems Modeling Language (The MK/OMG Press)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.97 — 58 ratings — published 2008
The Art of Systems Architecting (Systems Engineering)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published
Human Factors in Systems Engineering (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 1996
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 46,886 ratings — published 1988
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,871 ratings — published 1990
Systems Engineering For Dummies (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.30 — 23 ratings — published 2011
Spacecraft Systems Engineering 3rd Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 56 ratings — published 1991
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,264 ratings — published 1994
INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook (Incose Systems Engineering Handbooks)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.87 — 15 ratings — published
Design of Design, The: Essays from a Computer Scientist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.77 — 609 ratings — published 2010
Business Dynamics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.38 — 309 ratings — published 1999
Software Requirements (Developer Best Practices)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 848 ratings — published 1999
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook: NASA/SP-2016-6105 Rev2 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 24 ratings — published
Architecting Spacecraft with SysML: A Model-based Systems Engineering Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.06 — 16 ratings — published
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,476 ratings — published 1996
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.70 — 10,182 ratings — published 2015
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook, Revision 2 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 1995
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (NASA/SP-2007-6105 Rev1)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.94 — 18 ratings — published 2007
Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,458 ratings — published 2009
Systems Engineering and Analysis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.90 — 122 ratings — published 1981
Systems Thinking: Coping with 21st Century Problems (Systems Innovation Book Series)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.85 — 13 ratings — published 2008
Systems Thinking, Systems Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 110 ratings — published 1981
Systems Engineering Principles and Practice (Artech House Professional Development and Technology Management Library)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2001
Tracing Connections: Voices of Systems Thinkers
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Space Mission Analysis and Design (Space Technology Library)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 86 ratings — published 1991
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 782 ratings — published 2021
Systems Engineering Demystified: A practitioner's handbook for developing complex systems using a model-based approach (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (Mcgraw-hill Series in Mechanical Engineering)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 390 ratings — published 2005
General Systems Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 2001
The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.84 — 147 ratings — published 1972
Systems Thinking for Curious Managers: With 40 New Management F-Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 102 ratings — published 2010
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,739 ratings — published 2019
Human Space Flight: Mission Analysis and Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.27 — 15 ratings — published 1999
Principles of Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.47 — 19 ratings — published 1968
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.51 — 16,120 ratings — published 2024
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 81,962 ratings — published 1984
The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs (New Series in NASA History)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 3.62 — 74 ratings — published 2002
Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.44 — 685 ratings — published
The Practice of System and Network Administration (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.43 — 599 ratings — published 2001
Systems Engineering Demystified, Second Edition: Apply modern, model-based systems engineering techniques to build complex systems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
Product Design: Fundamentals and Methods (Product Development: Planning, Design, Engineering)
by (shelved 1 time as systems-engineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1995
“If we want to solve problems effectively...we must keep in mind not only many features but also the influences among them. Complexity is the label we will give to the existence of many interdependent variables in a given system. The more variables and the greater their interdependence, the greater the system's complexity. Great complexity places high demands on a planner's capacity to gather information, integrate findings, and design effective actions. The links between the variables oblige us to attend to a great many features simultaneously, and that, concomitantly, makes it impossible for us to undertake only one action in a complex system.
A system of variables is "interrelated" if an action that affects or meant to affect one part of the system will also affect other parts of it. Interrelatedness guarantees that an action aimed at one variable will have side effects and long-term repercussions. A large number of variables will make it easy to overlook them.
We might think of complexity could be regarded as an objective attribute of systems. We might even think we could assign a numerical value to it, making it, for instance, the product of the number of features times the number of interrelationships. If a system had ten variables and five links between them, then its "complexity quotient", measured in this way would be fifty. If there are no links, its complexity quotient would be zero. Such attempts to measure the complexity of a system have in fact been made.
Complexity is not an objective factor but a subjective one. Supersignals reduce complexity, collapsing a number of features into one. Consequently, complexity must be understood in terms of a specific individual and his or her supply of supersignals. We learn supersignals from experience, and our supply can differ greatly from another individual's. Therefore there can be no objective measure of complexity.”
― The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations
A system of variables is "interrelated" if an action that affects or meant to affect one part of the system will also affect other parts of it. Interrelatedness guarantees that an action aimed at one variable will have side effects and long-term repercussions. A large number of variables will make it easy to overlook them.
We might think of complexity could be regarded as an objective attribute of systems. We might even think we could assign a numerical value to it, making it, for instance, the product of the number of features times the number of interrelationships. If a system had ten variables and five links between them, then its "complexity quotient", measured in this way would be fifty. If there are no links, its complexity quotient would be zero. Such attempts to measure the complexity of a system have in fact been made.
Complexity is not an objective factor but a subjective one. Supersignals reduce complexity, collapsing a number of features into one. Consequently, complexity must be understood in terms of a specific individual and his or her supply of supersignals. We learn supersignals from experience, and our supply can differ greatly from another individual's. Therefore there can be no objective measure of complexity.”
― The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations
“The limits on a growing system may be temporary or permanent. The system may find ways to get around them for a short while or a long while, but eventually there must come some kind of accommodation, the system adjusting to the constraint, or the constraint to the system, or both to each other. In that accommodation come some interesting dynamics.
Whether the constraining balancing loops originate from a renewable or nonrenewable resource makes some difference, not in whether growth can continue forever, but in how growth is likely to end.”
― Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Whether the constraining balancing loops originate from a renewable or nonrenewable resource makes some difference, not in whether growth can continue forever, but in how growth is likely to end.”
― Thinking In Systems: A Primer
