SYSE 515 Jesse Ridenour

Addressing Complexity      Hello, and welcome back to my blog. This week I am going to discuss complexity and how I have seen it addressed in my work place.           From the reading in this weeks lesson, complexity can be addressed in multiple ways. I am going to describe how it is addresses where I work.      First of all, I work for a major aircraft company as I have stated before and some of the information I would like to get into detail about is proprietary and there for I will speak in general industry standard terms.      One of the most complex thing we do is to develop a heavy maintenance cost and schedule to present for proposal to our customers. This has a great many constraints, objectives, and time limits presented by the formal customer request for cost and schedule response.      Once we receive this request, we immed...

Provide an original example of the concept that shows its applicability in any context (e.g., work, academia, industry, government, personal life, and society).     The best example I can think of for showing statistics in action is what we use at work. I work for a major aircraft manufacturing and modification company and we do some very large projects. When we do these projects we create a project plan, budget, and schedule. we then take all the data from those three primary variables and create a Earned Value Management (EVM) tool. The best part of EVM is that is show our customers along with our management team where we are with the project. this tool updates real time and asses job closures, time spent on the job, and if the job started and closed on schedule and on budget.      The primary function of EVM is to answer the question as to what have we done, where are we now, where are we going, are we on schedule, and are we on budget.  ...