SYSE.1:2 - Problem

Project names are chosen early, often before outside use, engineering boundaries, and realization constraints are understood. The first plausible referent then becomes an unstated premise in later decisions. A tool is selected as the project system-of-interest merely because it is purchased; a provider System is selected merely because its people perform the Work; or a desired state is forced into a System because the project is organized around achieving it.

The opposite error is also common: a useful tool, software product, or component is excluded by a slogan even when its own product project legitimately selects it. Compare referents for the current project and keep the choice revisable as understanding of the problem and solution changes together.