Editing Systemantics (section)

{{Short description|Book by John Gall}}
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| name          = General Systemantics 
| image         = File:Systemantics.jpg
| caption       = 1977 edition
| author        = [[John Gall (author)|John Gall]]
| illustrator   = R. O. Blechman
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| language      = English
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| subject       = [[Systems science]]
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| publisher     = General Systemantics Press
| pub_date      = 1975/78, 1986, 2002
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| media_type    = Print
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'''''General Systemantics''''' (retitled to '''''Systemantics''''' in its second edition and '''''The Systems Bible''''' in its third) is a [[systems engineering]] treatise by [[John Gall (author)|John Gall]] in which he offers practical principles of systems design based on experience and anecdotes.

It is offered from the perspective of how ''not'' to design systems, based on system engineering failures. The primary precept of the treatise is that large [[complex system]]s are extremely difficult to design correctly despite best intentions, so care must be taken to design smaller, less-complex systems and to do so with incremental functionality based on close and continual touch with user needs and measures of effectiveness.