1.

Explain why other systems within a systems environment

can have unanticipated effects on the functioning of a
system.
System is the collection of different independent component that work together
to perform the specific task. In a system environment, there are different small
and large components or entities that work together to give the single product.
Because of dependency between different components, there may arise the
problems in the system. If one system gets fail, it can harm to the overall system
output. Basically, in large organization, main system is need to coordinate with
other sub system to complete its task. It may lead to the risk. System in the same
environment interrupts on the execution of other system. It causes the
unanticipated effects on the functioning of system.
2. Explain why specifying a system to be used by emergency
services for disaster management is an inherently wicked
problem.
Disaster management is not a static system because the number of
variables comes into the play. Even the same disaster in two different place may
have different consequences or series of activities that is going to affect the
places. Also same system may not specify all type of the disaster problem in a
single system and no place in earth is totally safe to say this type of disaster may
not happen here depending upon the environment in some cases. So, in such
disaster emergency service of any type has to be enabled not just the specified
type. Hence such specification of the system for the disaster management system
is inherently wicked problems.
3. Explain why it is important to produce an overall
description of a system architecture at an early stage in the
system specification process?
With a pictorial representation of how a system will work, it is easier to
identify what sections of a system will work with other sections, what the layout
of design needs to be, where work needs to be focused on, and can if there are
unnecessary redundancies, can save the developer and customer significant time
and money. The system architecture design can also allow for interfaces to other
systems interoperability with other systems that have been previously designed, in
a manner that does not leave the new system entirely dependent, but merely
operating in parallel with the previous system. This can alleviate the woes of
upgrading core legacy systems by being able to interface with, rather than rely
upon other systems. [10]
4. Explain why legacy systems may be critical to the operation
of the business.

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Legacy systems are systems relying on old or obsolete hardware and software,
and are considered either too expensive, or risky to replace, update, or upgrade
these systems. When systems are developed for a specific purpose, with no
intention of having other systems rely on it, they can be designed in such a
fashion that the entire system can be replaced with no problems. When a system is
a core system however, and other systems are developed relying on the core
system, it begins to become more and more difficult to replace or modify it. When
this system is now integral to all parts concerning it, replacing or modifying it
would likely require modifications to every other system that it supports, which
can keep a business offline for months while upgrades take place.[10]
5. Explain why legacy systems can cause difficulties for
companies that wish to reorganize their business processes?
As stated in the previous question, when systems are inadvertently linked with
other systems that were never designed to interoperate, they become entangled
and if separated, will no longer function. Without appropriate interface
development that can separate systems from one another, this can and more often
than not will happen as a business grows, and their processes become larger and
larger to a point that they are unwieldy, and need to be separated for management.
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