3SL Reference

This section of the website is intended to provide a useful technical reference about Systems Engineering. It is to be aimed at a broad range of users so it will be very useful for systems engineering students and accomplished engineers alike.

This guide is independent from 3SL's products and services and is aimed at everyone with an interest in engineering principles and techniques.

• Systems Engineering
• Process
• Modelling
• Project
• Assumptions
• Definitions
• Delivery
• Documentation
• Personnel
• Problems
• Purpose
• Scope
• Requirements
• Audits
• Capture
• Definitions
• Development
• Engineering
• Interfaces
• Operational
• Performance
• Security
• Socio-Political
• Risks
• Cancellation
• Costings
• Feature Creep
• Management
• Measurements
• Metrics
• Productivity
• Quality
• Schedules
• Summary
• Diagrams
• Activity Diagram (ACD)
• Architecture Interconnect Diagram (AID)
• Behaviour Diagram (BD/FFBD)
• Class Diagram (CD)
• Collaboration Diagram (COD)
• Component Diagram (CPD)
• Document Structure Diagram (DCD)
• Data Flow Diagram (DFD)
• Deployment Diagram (DPD)
• Data Structure Diagram (DSD)
• Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)
• IDEF0 (IDF)
• Physical Architecture Diagram (PAD)
• Package Diagram (PD)
• Process Flow Diagram (PFD)
• State Chart Diagram (SCD)
• Sequence Diagram (SQD)
• Structure Chart (STC)
• State Transition Diagram (STD)
• Use Case Diagram (UCD)