Things I Think I Know

This is the foundation page for Things I Think I Know

The definitions and explanations contained herein are intended exactly as the title suggests: they are things I think I know. They should, therefore, not be taken as authoritative: I am no Granddaddy, and neither is this web site. Many are gleaned from my collection of System Engineering manuals collected over the years, the earliest of can be dated only as “pre-1980”. Some of the manuals are variants of the Defense Systems Management College textbooks, while others are specific to individual companies or authors.

Some items in the list are a bit speculative, but have worked well for me in the past and proven portable from one project to another. A few of the items are really just stress-relievers. Apparently, I cannot help myself in that regard1.

I have, to the best of my ability, linked between definitions/explanations to mitigate the redundancy that would otherwise have eventuated. The necessary consequence of that linking is that the reader will skip around in the site in order to gain a complete picture for many of the basic concepts2.

Unlike prior (printed) editions, the web version is searchable and contains crude categorizations to group items by topic.

Footnotes
  1.   For which no apology is forth-coming.[]
  2.   For which no apology is forth-coming either.[]