3 . 5 Its tasks are handled by the overall project management and the individual
4 Though the term architect is quite overstressed.
5 The fi gure shows an organizational chart in the SysML/UML notation. You fi nd more information
on BPM with UML in [33]. The chart is a block defi nition diagram ( bdd ). These diagrams are
described in Section 4.5.
FIGURE 1.3
Positioning systems engineering in an organizational chart.
bdd Organizational chart
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Overall project
management
Systems
engineering
?«reports to?»
?«reports to?»
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development departments. Although the overall project management would be
capable of assuming systems engineering tasks as far as the contents are concerned,
it usually does not have the time available other than for its management
tasks. The development departments communicate only with their direct neighboring
disciplines, to which there are interfaces. Though this widens their view to a
certain extent, it doesn ??™ t give them a holistic system view. This leads to the problems
often observed in practice that the overview of complex systems is easily lost.
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