Technical decisions carry cost and schedule implications which set limits on technical solutions to customer problems. Achieving the proper balance and system integrity is the discipline of systems engineering.
Systems Engineering matters; it is an interdisciplinary approach that ensures achievement of a successful system. As a technical discipline in its own right, it ensures a balance between business and technical considerations and maintains this focus throughout the life of the project. It integrates all the disciplines and specialty groups into a team effort forming a structured development process that proceeds from concept to production to operation. Systems Engineering ensures that all stakeholder needs are fully understood, the requisite system functionality is defined early in the development cycle, requirements are documented, and concept and architecture selection and systems are validated. The result is an on-time, on-budget, and a techically compliant solution.
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