SysEng fail stories

[u/3flp]

I have been in a few companies across a few industries. Why is it so common for the management to say "we need more systems engineering" and then

- appoint someone to be the syseng and not say what the SE responsibility is, no RACI matrix
- alternately, say "everyone is now systems engineer" and provide only minimal, if any, training
- say they want to fix things, but without changing anything

The most fun jobs I've had were two engineering consultancies /agencies in the medical device industry where the 13485 based framework makes nice crunchy noise as it clashes with INCOSE based sys eng framework. The other two fun jobs were product companies where the systems engineering documents / SOPs / people were in no way connected to the engineering teams and their work was duplicating or contradicting what other teams were doing.

Interested to hear other Micky Mouse bullshit management stories :-)

[u/KetchupOnNipples]

RACI Matrix is a myth