SYSE.17:1 - Problem Frame

Engineering decisions and descriptions guide realization, operation, maintenance, and modernization Work. The resulting changes can reach Systems outside the project’s influence and formal organization—for example, a downstream resident, future operator, maintenance provider, ecological System, supplier, bystander, competing resource user, or later user. Discover such a bearer from the consequence claim rather than from a stakeholder label.

The engineering problem is to discover enough consequence-bearing Systems, qualify the claims about them, and return unresolved consequences while the receiving engineering decision can still be altered.