Crayon Drawing Is a Vital Engineering Skill

Complex systems are difficult to understand, and such understanding, once obtained, is difficult to communicate to others. Both of these increase the difficulty of learning about the system, and increase the time it takes for new team members to feel comfortable proposing and making changes to such systems.

System overview diagrams are one tool which can be very helpful in mitigating these challenges. This talk will walk through system overview diagrams from different problem domains, and discuss the benefits such diagrams can yield.