ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses systems and systems engineering from different perspectives because projects are systems and create products which are systems using systems engineering. (Even if they don’t call it systems engineering.) Moreover, the project takes place in an environment or context which is a system. This chapter provides an overview of systems, the system lifecycle (SLC), systems engineering and the system development process (SDP) to help the policymaker, implementer and project manager understand the important aspects of risk management in systems and systems engineering. Specifically, this chapter discusses the nature of systems, properties of systems, hierarchies of systems, supply chains as systems, an introduction to systems engineering, modeling and simulation, the nine-system model and risks in systems and systems engineering.
Policies and projects are systems which are realized using systems engineering and project management working interdependently. Project management is the heart of effecting any change, caused by the implementation of a policy, a large engineering project (LEP) or any type of project. This chapter provided an overview of systems, the SLC, systems engineering and the SDP to help the policymaker, implementer and project manager understand the important aspects of risk management in systems and systems engineering and the interdependency and overlap between risk management in systems engineering and project management.
