The space-time continuum of the product development lifecycle
Imagine if the product development stage were mapped in terms of Time and Space. All the steps, all the artifacts that you develop during the lifecycle are placed spatially (in form of some documents). Their coming into being was through the time. The time that engineers, program managers and all the other stakeholders spent investing their energy and skills to build towards a saleable, marketable and long lasting quality product that their customers would cherish.
Now what happens when something goes south? What happens if requirements aren’t met, the program is not on schedule, or an unfortunate event hampers the performance of your product for which there were no risk mitigation plans? Wouldn’t it be nice to travel back into the time and the space to look at all the artifacts you built through the complete development lifecycle ? Wouldn’t you wish this fabric of space-time continuum bent for you to travel back in time?
Now imagine if all your hard work was captured in models and digital engineering tools, and connected, and managed for configuration and change, this would be your space-time fabric, your digital fabric. This will be a digital fabric where you will be able to travel in time and space both, to achieve the impossible, to reduce the turn-around time, to make fewer mistakes, and get things right the first time, and most importantly manage changes and help build resilient systems!
If you are interested in understanding how to adopt systems engineering and model based systems engineering practices within your organization, reach out to BlueKei Solutions team at info@Blue-Kei.com. We specialize in systems engineering consulting, project executions, process adoptions such as compliance to ISO15288, ARP 4754A, ISO 42020, digital transformations. We can also conduct capability development workshops which are experiential and tailored to your needs. With systems engineering adoption you can address the complexity, manage evolving risks and bring transformation in communication within your organization through digitalization and create the digital thread.