What are the best ways to balance priorities in systems management?

Balancing priorities in systems management is a constant challenge, but it's crucial for ensuring the smooth operation and success of your systems. Here are some effective ways to achieve this: Define clear goals and objectives: - Align with organizational goals: Understand how your systems contribute to the overall business objectives. This provides a foundation for prioritizing tasks and activities. - Set SMART goals: Break down broad goals into Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound objectives for your systems. - Identify KPIs: Define key performance indicators (KPIs) to track progress and measure the impact of your activities.

Although there is no one-size-fits-all all, in my field and experience, aligning tech advancements with safety standards, prioritizing regulatory compliance, integrating cybersecurity measures, streamlining operations, and fostering a culture of adaptability. In the nuclear energy sector, harmony between innovation, safety, and regulatory adherence is paramount for effective systems management.

Defining the goals and objectives for the system will help eliminate noisy decisions when working on tasks. Having clear goals and objectives can help speed the progress of the project and will also help you prioritize relevant tasks that have the most impact on the system.

Defining clear goals and objectives for what the project is trying to achieve and flowing these down to the system whilst ensuring any systems approach is embedded in your concepts of use. Anything that is not supporting the objectives should be questioned and reprioritised accordingly.

It is extremely critical that KPIs selected are the right KPIs. There have been multiple instances when KPIs or metrics have ended up being not the right thing. As in, prior to setting KPIs validate that the KPIs are the right metrics.

Je parlerai plus d’approche systémique que d’approche systématique. Un faux ami de traduction automatique, sans doute, toutes les activités décrites ne devant pas être systématiquement réalisées selon le produit, le projet et son contexte.

Systems design and development need systemic approach and this can be made more efficient with a well define framework to identify risks, deal with complexity and feasibility, manufacturing and productization merits and demerits; including validation and stage gate reviews along the evolution of the system will yield consistent and quality system with excellent program milestones.

The technical process as SEP should be established at the concept phase. It is actually varying in a different organizations. The approach should be not systematic, rather systemic or system and methodology should reflect the system mission, timing and product design. It is definitely worth it to have a defined framework, but it should reflect the specifics of the product.

Un système implique nécessairement une maintenabilité pérenne. Ce point doit être abordé dés la phase de conception afin d’en limiter les co?ts et aussi augmenter le temps de bon fonctionnement. Il est aussi pertinent de réfléchir aux processus internes susceptibles de compromettre le bon fonctionnement pour éventuellement basculer sur un mode dégradé via un sous-système redondant. La formation des opérateurs de maintenance doit également être évaluée afin de cibler correctement le personnel nécessaire aux opérations. Enfin, l’environnement externe doit aussi être analysé afin d’évaluer les risques pouvant compromettre la solidité du système.

L'approche systémique (erreur de traduction?) doit être suivie par la gestion de projet pour gérer l'ensemble du projet. Mais elle ne doit jamais éluder les détails communiquées par les équipes terrain. Le projet sans aléas n'existe pas, refuser les détail, c'est mettre sous le tapis les aléas qui se transforment en crises.

Objectives are likely to change. A strong network of communication and collaboration can facilitate a smooth change process and minimise the impact of unforeseen circumstances.

Team work is the only clear strategy, this only works if the team has a clear definition of the goals it trying to achieve. Design reviews are essential part of this process laying out a clear road map of the scope of work. All departments need to be on the same page to allow this process to grow. Feed back after initial rollout is essential so that the project can be moved forward in the right direction.

La communication est bien meilleure et efficace lorsque la confiance et la bienveillance sont établies. C'est l'affaire de tous, le management doit être un exemple sur ce sujet. Par exemple en donnant la sienne... ce qui ne doit pas impliquer l'abandon de sa responsabilité! Par exemple aussi en ne transformant pas ces sujets en tabou: il faut en parler !

La comunicación es fundamental, desde el inicio, y en cada etapa de todo proyecto. Es importante, tener al día a clientes, usuarios, stakeholders, desarrolladores, proveedores, sobre los avances del proyecto. Esa comunicación tiene que ser fluída y debe ser algo pactado entre todas las partes, en las etapas de metas y objetivos. Las malas noticias, es mejor darlas a tiempo para poder corregir y resolver los problemas y conflictos, antes que sean mayores.

De mon point de vue, une communication continue, claire et efficace permettent une conscience groupée de l'avancement du projet et surtout une efficacité optimale tout au long du processus de projet.

No situation is like any other you have experienced previously. Resources, time, people and many other key factors change constantly so you need to continuously keep adapting and changing your approach depending on the circumstances.

Je suis tout à fait d'accord, de mon point de vue, tout projet est un NP problème, cultiver la culture de feedback, suivre les actions d'amélioration, adapter et réadapter l'environnement est un ma?tre mot d'évolution continue.

To be a systems engineer oblies you to be always updated. Technology keeps increasing in an unstoppable pace which makes to be an expert almost impossible. Humbly, I think that is much more convenient for a systems manager to be continuously looking for cutting-edge trends than trying to learn all about each new release. Knowing how the world works is essential for unserstanding the risks and weaknesses your project is facing to and the strenghts which may boost it.

How cyclical learning is, regardless of how you look at it if it is a loop or a curve with valleys and edges, something fundamental that makes a good professional, leaving aside the engineering role a little, is how you adapt to different situations, whether technical, labor, language, social The important thing is to draw a clear and concise roadmap in which, whether alone or supported by more people, you can spend much more time on edges than in valleys.

La norme ISO 9001 sert à définir un système d’assurance qualité efficace. Pas besoin de l’adopter intégralement, s’inspirer de ses principes suffit.

I’d flip that opening statement. The only reason a “system” exists is to assist one or more humans in accomplishing a specific task. It’s not “also about human factors”; it’s all about human factors. Like the Hippocratic oath - do no harm, at least not to the humans operating the system or the bystanders. Some of our military systems are clearly designed to do great harm, defensively or proactively, to a very specific set of people, and the more specific the better.

In addition to the “narrow human factors” we also need to consider wider societal factors such as legal, ethical and cultural aspects (constraints) within which the system has to operate.

I would add that all these and other factors should be balanced considering the full system’s life cycle. There are always some concessions to be made related to past commitments and future benefits. For example, it may be a good idea to spend more to improve a system’s reliability during its design and worry less about its maintenance later.

A mon avis le plus important est de créer le bon environnement qui favorise la collaboration, la positivité dans les échanges et surtout la bienveillance en continu dans nos approches de tous les jours de la collaboration.

An additional point in the SDLC is technical debt and since this generates wear and tear in the employee's entire life cycle, generating an organizational and technical culture based on delivering a good product will generate no products with technical debt and in the long run, be able to put all the energy and demand in taking innovation and creativity

In my experience, it is important to use the bottom up approach to review every aspect of design during the initial PDR and FDR phases, but when competing and conflicting priorities arise, using a top down strategy to prioritize work, focus on the critical system elements and keeping a tab on the less critical elements helps better. Ideal world eould be having the time and resources to do everything as mandated by standards and processes. Reality is far from this, and hence this switch in approach will ensure the most critical elements are addressed effectively without impacting the schedule and budget negatively.

I would say: Look at the risk management table and get a clear view of the involved risks and the potential damage if the risk is not handled !. We would call that consequential or collateral damage if not handled well. Hence: RISK = (Probability of occurence) * (Effect,if not handled adequately). The risk matrix would hence be the best, provided that a). everybody of the team is looking at the same risk matrix and b) agrees with the risk matrix and the severity index. This will definitely give an "interesting" team discussion. And in case of doubt on the severity, maybe involve an expert on the hot topic to allow for a second opinion.

Quando os resultados devem alcan?ar o mercado sob a forma de um produto acabado, é importante considerar a quantos padr?es ele será capaz de atender, de forma a melhorar sua competitividade e aceitabilidade por parte do público.

Another offered view for balancing good system engineering, is integrating from day 1 the aspect of validating the system. System (or in broad view, System of Systems) Integration should be consider from the beggining of desiging the system, and by that view, it force the SE role to always think of the integrity and validation of his design.

Un aspect croissant dans la gestion de projet systèmes est la méthode nommée "agile". Sans entrer dans le détail, il vas nous falloir de plus en plus, accépter de laisser travailler les équipes sans retour sur des périodes données et entrecouper ces périodes de réajustement avec les client/fournisseurs. Le second aspect concerne les outils de gestion de version et suivis de projets qui devront être intégrés comme un CRM évolué. Voila en exemple la clée d'une communication réussie.