Back in 1999 I co-authored this paper with Darren Burrowes a colleague of mine on the ADI Minehunter project to capture some of what we’d learned about emergent design attributes and their management on that project. Darren got to present the paper at INCOSE’s International Symposium in Brighton England 1999.
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Managing the Emergent Properties of Design
Posted in Emergent attributes, tagged emergent attributes, management, systems engineering, TPM on 11/07/2011 | Leave a Comment »
I tend towards the integrative rather than reductionist view of engineering and science. I'm interested in emergence, networks, relationships and interfaces as they apply to safety.what are the facts?
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