Making systems
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1: Fundamentals
I System stories
3 Making a simple system
3.1 The request
3.2 Building the cottage
3.3 Retrospective on building
3.4 Adding to the cottage
3.5 Retrospective on addition
3.6 Principles
4 Stories about building systems
4.1 Developing a spacecraft mission without engineering the system
4.2 Marketing and engineering collaboration
4.3 Missing implicit requirements
4.4 Building at a mismatch to purpose
4.5 The persistence of team habits
4.6 Heavyweight, understaffed processes
4.7 Planning the transcontinental railroad
A set of case studies illustrating what can go right and wrong in a project to build a system.