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Understanding the Opportunity

In: Managing Project Complexity and Risk with Systems Engineering

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  • Robert F. Bordley

    (University of Michigan, Systems Engineering and Design Program, Industrial and Operations Engineering Department, College of Engineering)

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The systems engineering process begins with sponsors providing a team with the resources to address some problem. To fully understand the problem, the team must know why the sponsors initiated the project. The space program would, at one point, consume five percent of the Federal budget. These resources might have been used to fund social programs, defense programs, research grants, health care, education, cuts taxes, reduce the deficit, etc. The President’s decision to pursue the Moonshot was an implicit decision not to do any of these other alternatives.

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  • Robert F. Bordley, 2026. "Understanding the Opportunity," Springer Books, in: Managing Project Complexity and Risk with Systems Engineering, chapter 0, pages 7-20, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-032-08901-4_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-08901-4_2
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