TABLE OF CONTENTS This book explains a highly organized but flexible method for defining needed man-made systems in an environment of cooperative work by teams of specialized engineers and analysts. The method described is based on three principal axioms. The first axiom is that the human knowledge base is vastly larger than the maximum individual human capacity to make effective use of that knowledge. That is, humans have limitations that force us to specialize and form organized teams to cover the needed knowledge base to master difficult problems. Second, our complex needs for man-made systems involve difficult problems that must be broken into a series of smaller problems (driven by the limitations of individual knowledge and management span) and the solutions to these smaller problems must be stitched into a larger fabric. Finally, because individual specialized design engineers work on only a small piece of the solution to a large and complex problem, they must first understand the requirements for the target of their creative engineering design genius before executing a design solution. Others are depending on them to solve the agreed-upon problem so that their solution to their part of the whole works with synergism in the whole.
I focus on an organized method for identifying what a system should consist of to satisfy a given customer need and appropriate requirements for the things in a system as a...
