Diogenes, a process for identifying unintended consequences

  • Authors:
  • A. Terry Bahill

  • Affiliations:
  • Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0020

  • Venue:
  • Systems Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Individuals, companies, and even governments often create procedures, processes, or products that solve a particular problem, only to discover that their solution has created a second problem, worse than the first. These secondary problems are called unintended consequences. Searching for unintended consequences, as a part of the development process, will likely increase safety, reduce financial risk, and improve customer satisfaction. This paper contains the design for a new process, named Diogenes, that will help systems engineers identify unintended, but foreseeable, consequences of a new system that is being designed. It contains the required behavior (functions), use cases, design diagrams, the test procedure, validation, and verification for Diogenes. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Eng © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.