The Book Thing
I see that several people have been doing this.
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 23.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
This particular book has a big table on page 23, so there’s little text on the page. However, there is a fifth sentence that starts on page 23 and concludes on the next page:
The Problem Statement (or Mission Element Need Statement in the military) gets the process rolling and identifies a problem for which a solution in the form of a system (new or improved) is needed.
This is from The Engineering Design Of Systems: Models And Methods by Dennis M. Buede. It’s definitely not leisure reading…