
| 作者简介 HOWARD EISNER, DSc, has managed and carried out research and development programs in systems and software engineering for more than forty-five years, in both industrial and academic environments. He served as executive vice president of ORI, Inc. and vice president of Atlantic Research Corporation (ARC). Currently, he is Professor at The George Washington University. Dr. Eisner has given tutorials for INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering), has over 100 papers to his credit and has had many of his articles published in the Washington Business Journal. |
| 1 Systems and Thinking 1.1 Building and Managing Complex Systems 1.2 Some Results of Thinking Outside the Box 1.3 Thinking in Relation to Specific Issues 1.4 Conclusion References 2 Building and Managing Systems 2.1 Some Basics of Systems Engineering 2.2 Some Basics of Project Management 2.3 Complex Systems 2.4 System of Systems Engineering 2.5 Summary References 3 Problems to Ponder 3.1 Problem Areas: Systems 3.2 Problem Areas: People 3.3 Problem Areas: Software 3.4 Problem Areas: Management 3.5 Summary References 4 The Inventive Mind 4.1 Management Thinking 4.2 Scientific and Technical Thinking 4.3 Not Everyone Is an Einstein(Or Needs To Be) 4.4 The Next Nine Chapters References 5 Perspective 1: Broaden and Generalize 5.1 Architecting a Complex System 5.2 Using Functional Decomposition to Explore Strategies 5.3 System of Systems Engineering 5.4 IBM's View of the World 5.5 Haloid's Bold Steps 5.6 From PERT to GERT to Stochastic Networks 5.7 Reinventing Yourself 5.8 Summary: A Meeting References 6 Perspective 2: Crossover 6.1 Peoplesoft 6.2 Software Reuse 6.3 Developer Off-the-Shelf Systems 6.4 Accounting Firm Consultation 6.5 Building and Managing New Systems 6.6 Summary: A Meeting References 7 Perspective 3: Question Conventional Wisdom 7.1 Large and Complex Government Systems 7.2 Conventional Wisdom Changes with the Times 7.3 More ChaUengeable Conventional Wisdom 7.4 Summary: Two Meetings References 8 Perspective 4: Back of the 8.1 What Can Fit on the Back of an Envelope? 8.2 Some Examples of Back-of-the-Envelope Results 8.3 Constructing What's on the Back of the Envelope 8.4 What Does It All Mean? 8.5 Summary: A Meeting References 9 Perspective 5: Expanding the Demensions 10 Perspective 6: Obversity 11 Perspective 7: Remove Constraints 12 Perspective 8: Thinking with Pictures 13 Perspective 9: The Systems Approach 14 Thinking in Groups 15 Widening the Circle 16 Final Thoughts and a Test Index |
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