As systems become more complex our processes mirror that complexity. As a result, our processes and tools are becoming very complicated and expensive to maintain. As we add more and more perspectives our systems engineering reference books are getting longer and longer. Such a process arms race is not sustainable hence the need for a reset.

For the management of risk in project management, it is known that on the flip side of risk there is opportunity. For systems engineering the flip side of complexity is simplicity. Instead of looking to manage complexity we need to go back to the basic concept of what a system is. That is what the System Genome does through the extraction of System DNA using the
Mc Donnell Framework.

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