Post #2167669
2026-05-07 07:45 UTC
1/5 I once spent hours meticulously designing the 'perfect' digital voting forms and setups for an INCOSE Automotive group meeting that I was chairing.
I was incredibly proud of this smart-feeling system, only to realise later that I had completely neglected to plan the actual content of what we needed to discuss.
I had fallen into the trap: I obsessed over the tools and completely forgot the aim.
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@alextoth@mastodonapp.uk 2026-05-07 07:45
2/5 Earlier this week I mentioned that Systems Engineers are the ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ holding the universe (the project) together against the expanding force of ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ด๐ (scope creep and stakeholder requirements). But when we zoom in too far, when we obsess over the syntax of a SysML block, the formatting of a document, or the setup of a tool ... .. We stop being the dark matter. We become just another spinning rock.