Any system that is engineered, cannot live forever! Breaking its life into stages will help address the needs of the system in a better way.

Systems Thinking is Step-1 of Problem Solving, though it is only about 'Thinking', and not about 'Doing'. Systems Thinking is crucial to SE.

First, determine if you really need to use Systems Engineering before actually beginning to use it.

Examples of applying the four checks (proposed in our previous article) to determine whether something can be called a ‘system’ or not.

Being clear about the word ‘system’ in ‘systems engineering’ (SE) is fundamental to the discipline of SE.