The design and operation of complex systems involves the development and coordinated management of complex relationships among a variety of subsystems and components. With these comments in mind, Figure 1 shows the ingredients, processes, and viewpoints that should be included in your systems profile. These factors are shown along the left-most column of Figure 1. The organization should serve the dual role of supporting individual projects, while also work towards the business mission, and meeting stakeholder and customer needs. These concerns are shown on the left-hand side of Figure 1.
System development is also a technical process to be accomplished .
Profiles should describe the roles and responsibilities of the main groups of people within an organization. Profiles should describe the events and scenarios that affect the organization behavior. Profiles should describe operational scenarios for fragments of the engineering system behavior. Profiles should consider the extent to which these viewpoints can be enhanced through the use of technology, sophisticated techniques for modeling system behavior, and optimization and trade-off analysis procedures. The introduction should set the stage for the content to follow, and address some of the big picture issues shown in Figure 1.