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SYSE.20:1 - Problem Frame

Engineering does not normally proceed as one total sequence. Modeling can overlap implementation, evidence review can begin before a test finishes, and provider Work can restore a service while project Work continues. At the same time, some dependencies are real: a test uses a released rig configuration; a simulation result refers to a particular model and solver configuration; a release decision waits for admitted evidence.

Several structures can therefore matter to one decision. Common examples are:

  • a Method structure showing composition or an unfolding;
  • a Work structure showing parthood, overlap, and required order;
  • a subject structure showing the engineered System and enabling Systems;
  • a representation-use structure showing which models and evidence refer to which configuration; and
  • provider, capability-development, or cultural-change structures when they change the decision.

Select structures that expose a decision-relevant relation or conflict, using these examples as starting points. Their descriptions can correspond without lining up one-for-one.