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Collaborative Systems Thinking: A Response to the Problems Faced by Systems Engineering's 'Middle Tier'Experienced systems engineers are adept at more than implementing systems engineering processes: they utilize systems thinking to solve complex engineering problems. Within the space industry demographics and economic pressures are reducing the number of experienced systems engineers that will be available in the future. Collaborative systems thinking within systems engineering teams is proposed as a way to integrate systems engineers of various experience levels to handle complex systems engineering challenges. This paper uses the GOES-R Program Systems Engineering team to illustrate the enablers and barriers to team level systems thinking and to identify ways in which performance could be improved. Ways NASA could expand its engineering training to promote team-level systems thinking are proposed.
Document ID
20090016182
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Phfarr, Barbara B. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
So, Maria M. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Lamb, Caroline Twomey (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Rhodes, Donna H. (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2009
Subject Category
Engineering (General)
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Council on Systems Engineering 2009
Country: Singapore
Start Date: July 20, 2009
End Date: July 23, 2009
Sponsors: BAE Systems
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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