TABLE OF CONTENTS There are currently many models used to accomplish structured analysis of problem spaces. During the development of many military systems over the period 1950 through 1980 government acquisition offices and contractors developed and applied an organized approach commonly called functional analysis. The author has chosen to refer to that technique, with other models linked to it to make it complete, as traditional structured analysis. Figure 3.3-1 illustrates this process that will be explained in Chapters 3.3 through 3.11 of this Part. It is an expansion of block F4113 of Figure 1.2-6. After the process is explained using a particular kind of functional analysis in this chapter, other variations will be covered in Chapter 3.9 that sometimes work better than this first method offered. The person who would understand problem spaces should seek to perfect his or her skills in a range of models because none of them seem to work equally well in all situations. There is an art form as well as sound logic in the use of models and some of us find some of them useful and others not so as a function of the problem space, the nature of the conceptual solution, and, possibly, the way we are wired. Individual system engineers will not know what works for them unless they try different models in their normal work.
This problem space modeling technique works for the author very well on very large problems the solutions...
