II. THE PROBLEM
Managing any formal project in today’s world of complexity is challenging.
Managing the development of a system-of-systems can be a daunting task.
The uncertainty associated with the maturation of the key technologies and the separate nature of subordinate systems, combined with sometimes ambiguous and vague requirements and ever present uncertainty add to the challenge.
Structural aspects of the system-of-systems, from the number of components to the detail of interfaces add to this daunting undertaking.
Although the premise of project management is simple,
execution even in single systems development is very difficult.
This basic system-of-systems project management challenge is
no different from those issues found in large development
projects, and is captured in this quote: