This is a presentation package used as a handout for a seminar talk for NASA engineers on 17 September 1996. The talk was part of a 5-day NASA short course arranged by Mr. Richard Evans, whose consulting company ERI was running this and other training groups for NASA. In the talk, Warfield began with a survey of the origins of the field of "Systems Engineering" described through his own experiences and intellectual development beginning with 1940's Electrical Engineering training, continuing through work with automatic controls in 1950's and his first paper on systems engineering in 1956. He Describes the work of several well-known systems people and organizations, such as Art Hall, Harold Chestnut, ORL, Ramo-Wooldridge, Bell Labs, IEEE-SMC, Lasswell and others. He recalls his own use and development of systems ideas in 1960's. Warfield's work done at Battelle, at UVA, in Mexico and at Ford Motor Company is described. By the end of this talk, in which we are brought to an overview of Warfield's work in the 1990's, he is discussing such ideas as "Behavior Ourcomes Matrix", showing which Laws of Complexity relate strongly to which combinations on the Matrix. He emphasizes the Lasswell concept of a specialized room for group work, and describes a next step which Warfield hopes will materialize - an observer's room or rooms, an "Urban Planetarium".

(Warfield's comment after the talk, was that he had presented his own experiences in the hope that possibly some of the trainees would be able to put two and two together and figure out that they themselves could arrive at new ideas in a similar manner as they moved through their careers, and also he included such a review of systems research origins because he felt that a lot of these young people knew nothing about the history of systems, making them particularly vulnerable to people like Dean Andrew P. Sage, who came along later, writing books on systems engineering, giving little or no references to earlier work, making the trainees believe that Sage himself practically invented the whole thing.) Warfield had also planned to talk about the Options Field methods, but ran out of time There is also a handwritten outline and notes for this talk given on afternoon of 17 Sept. 1996.

LIST OF TRANSPARENCIES PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED AS HANDOUT AT THE TALK: Pages 1-5. Title pages of presentation: 1)Cover page 2)SystemsGate 3)Systems Engineers: Living in Sin 4)Engineering Faculty: Unindicted Co-Conspirators 5)WHAT DID HE KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?; Page 6. "The Hall Activity Matrix"; Page 7. "The Hall Activity Matrix" with shaded blocks; Page 8. "The Most Important Idea is that Complexity will overcome your best efforts"; Page 9. "Behavior--Outcomes Matrix (Understanding the Work Program of Complexity)"; Page 10. "Three Primary Reasons for Poor Intellectual Productivity" quote from Boulding; Pages 11-13. "Basic Propositions for Change in Organizations" this is a text file, not a transparency, but added at end of document, and is part of the presentation package. What follows is a complete list of the transparencies which were shown DURING THE ACTUAL TALK: 1. "The Most Important Idea is that Complexity Will Overcome Your Best Efforts. ; 2. IASIS Goals and Products, 1984-1996, 2 pages; 3.Title pages of presentation,4p. (3 joke titles preceding the actual third one): SystemsGate; Systems Engineers:Living in Sin, Engineering Faculty: Unindicted Co-Conspirators, WHAT DID HE KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?; 4.The Hall Activity Matrix; 5. The Hall Activity Matrix with shaded blocks; 6. AP Problematique; 7. Behaviour-Outcomes Matrix; 8. Figure 4. Individual Participan Voting Patterns-RRM IM Workshop….14; 9. Distribution of Votes Across Problems (Ford PIM Workshop Jan 24, 1994)…; 10. The Alberts Pattern (with 678 problems, Original version for DoD)……; 11. The Alberts Pattern (with 270 Design Options, Systems Education version)…..; 12. "Foucalt Believes That Our Own…"……..(nuw21); 13. Start and Redirection, 3p…………..; 14. Three Primary Reasons for Poor Intellectual Productivity" quote from Boulding. Following Cells were planned to be used, but were not included due to lack of time: Figure 7.24 Options Field for Movie Example; Figure 7.27 Alternative C for Movie Example; Figure 7.25 Alternative A for Movie Example; Figure 7.26 Alternative B for Movie Example; Seven Ways to Portray Complexity….. LIST OF ATTENDEES (or at least most of them, Rose copied their names from an attendee list, but perhaps a few others were there also) From NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. George Albright From Jet Lab in Pasadena, CA Paul Kirchoff From Langley Research Center, near Hampton, VA Frank E. Batts Theodore J. Beiss Dave Cordner Jerry Garcia James Osborne Nvillim? Tomek From Lewis Research Center, in Cleveland Julie Graminer Morton Fokosh Daniel Gauntner …. Sadler Duc Truong …. Walters