Fitzgerald Systems

Author: Terry Fitzgerald

  • Project Io

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    Project Io is initiated to capture effort made towards developing a course on UAF – with a scope limited to the exam content for the Model User exam. It is likely that the course would be trialed with a test audience but the intention is to make this course an online and asynchronous course. Syllabus…

  • Project Helios

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    The outcome of Project Helios seeks to disrupt the Systems Engineering professional development experience by radically improving the efficiency of understanding and retaining of key concepts in preparation of the Model User Exam on the OMG United Architectural Framework (UAF). This post seeks to provide an introduction to the project’s main deliverable, provide weekly snapshot…

  • TL;DR SE Newsletter – August 2025

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    The BLUF without the fluff. TL;DR: INCOSE SE Flash Cards The 500+ INCOSE SE Handbook Flash Cards have been live since June and already there’s been great uptake. Check out https://fitzgeraldsystems.com/services/incose-se-handbook-v5-flash-cards/. Sign up to the monthly TL;DR SE Newsletter to get a limited availability promo code for 15% off. Elevating System Architecture Through Functional Failure Mode…

  • TL;DR SE Newsletter – July 2025

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    The BLUF without the fluff. TL;DR: INCOSE SE Flash Cards The 500+ INCOSE SE Handbook Flash Cards have been live since June and already there’s been great uptake. Check out https://fitzgeraldsystems.com/services/incose-se-handbook-v5-flash-cards/. Sign up to the monthly TL;DR SE Newsletter to get a limited availability promo code for 15% off. Air India Flight 171 crash preliminary…

  • General Systems Theory by Ludwig von Bertalanffy – Introduction

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    Rationale for GST Ludwig von Bertalanffy (LvB) (1901-1972) was an Austrian biologist and was one of the founders of General Systems Theory (GST) though such a theory has not yet been articulated. “[LvB] observed that systemic processes recur isomorphically across many disciplines. For instance, systems can be stabilized by means of feedback in the physical…

  • Stigmergy – a strategy to unlock mass collaboration?

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    TL;DR: The article explores how the concept of stigmergy—a self-organizing principle observed in ants—can be applied to enable large-scale human collaboration. By leaving visible traces of work and inviting others to build upon them, a 25-person group project was successfully completed without centralized control. This decentralized, trace-based approach led to a more creative and inclusive…

  • Combating New World Screwworm: Innovative Sterile Insect Technique Explained

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    Increase the number of flies to decrease the number of screwworms?? I’ve been reading an unhealthy amount into the plague that is the New World Screwworm (NWS) after I saw articles introducing the strategy to stop the spread of this live-flesh eating larva, which devastates livestock, is to air drop billions upon billions of these…

  • TL;DR SE Newsletter – June 2025

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    The BLUF without the fluff. TL;DR: INCOSE SE Handbook Study Group The March 2025 cohort is quickly coming to a close and the July 2025 (July 7th) is just around the corner. Fitzgerald Systems is committed to the Study Group format because it delivers results: providing a systematic way to crush the handbook whilst giving…

  • Project Gordon

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    The outcome of Project Gordon seeks to disrupt the Systems Engineering professional development experience by radically improving the efficiency of understanding and retaining of key concepts from the INCOSE SE Handbook v5. This post seeks to provide an introduction to the project’s main deliverable, provide weekly snapshot to the project status as well as share…

  • TL;DR SE Newsletter – Mar 2025

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    The BLUF without the fluff. TL;DR: 2nd INCOSE SE Handbook Study Group Cohort of 2025 is underway March 24th saw the kick off of the second cohort of 2025 and this time I’m joined by a group as geographically diverse as Japan and Washington State! Presently we’re just about to tackle Organizational Project-Enabling Processes and…