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    • Zen in the Art of Cost Estimation 

      Valerdi, Ricardo (2008)
      Engineering cannot wait until all phenomena are explained. Engineers may work effectively, often for centuries, with heuristics. This paper provides over thirty heuristics that have been inspired by the development and ...

    • Cultural Barriers to the Adoption of Systems Engineering Research 

      Valerdi, Ricardo (2008)
      An extensive amount of time and money is spent on developing methodologies and tools to improve the systems engineering process but much less is spent on addressing the organizational factors that can facilitate or hinder ...

    • Collaborative Systems Thinking Research: Exploring Systems Thinking within Teams 

      Lamb, Caroline T.; Rhodes, Donna H. (2008)
      This paper describes ongoing research that seeks to develop an empirical basis for collaborative systems thinking, defined as “an emergent behavior of teams resulting from the interactions of team members and utilizing ...