this context, this paper provides personal observations common across many organizationsbased on the author’s work in SE, project management, organizational development, and teamdevelopment.STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMDespite the formulation and development of Systems Engineering capability assessment andcompetency models, certifications, education and training courses, et al, system developmentprojects continue to exhibit technical performance issues concerning the engineering of systems.Contributing to this overall problem are several contributory performance effecters: 1. Misperceptions that writing specifications, developing designs, performing integration