6Top Ten Lessons
1. Stovepipes
Sitting on top of the author’s top ten list is the stovepipe issue. There appears to be a strong tendency for systems engineering management to try to integrate all stovepipes and thereby create an integrated system. In principle, we would like such a system, but we must be very careful in this domain. We need to recognize that many of the stovepipes have been developed with different types of software as well as languages. In this important aspect, they may not be integrable without an enormous effort with regard to both time and cost.
Based on this author’s experience, the lesson learned is to back up a few steps and consider, in depth, the possible consequences of attempts at integration. This will require ...
