There is a brilliant book by John Gall called "Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail"

On the surface it looks like an elaborate Murphy's Law joke, but after a long engineering career I still consider it the most important book on engineering I have ever read.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics

"General Systemantics (retitled to Systemantics in its second edition and The Systems Bible in its third) is a systems engineering treatise by 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 systems are extremely difficult to design correctly despite best intentions and 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."

" The term systemantics is a commentary on prior work by Alfred Korzybski called General Semantics which conjectured that all systems failures could be attributed to a single root cause—a failure to communicate. Dr. Gall observes that, instead, system failure is an intrinsic feature of systems. He thereby derives the term 'General Systemantics' in deference to the notion of a sweeping theory of system failure, but attributed to an intrinsic feature based on laws of system behavior. He observes as a side-note that system antics also playfully captures the concept that systems naturally "act up."

There is a brilliant book by John Gall called "Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail"

On the surface it looks like an elaborate Murphy's Law joke, but after a long engineering career I still consider it the most important book on engineering I have ever read.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics

"General Systemantics (retitled to Systemantics in its second edition and The Systems Bible in its third) is a systems engineering treatise by 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 systems are extremely difficult to design correctly despite best intentions and 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."

" The term systemantics is a commentary on prior work by Alfred Korzybski called General Semantics which conjectured that all systems failures could be attributed to a single root cause—a failure to communicate. Dr. Gall observes that, instead, system failure is an intrinsic feature of systems. He thereby derives the term 'General Systemantics' in deference to the notion of a sweeping theory of system failure, but attributed to an intrinsic feature based on laws of system behavior. He observes as a side-note that system antics also playfully captures the concept that systems naturally "act up."

Maybe this can help you : http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/hts/v73n4/36.pdf

http://sticef.univ-lemans.fr/num/vol2014/19-peraya-epa/sticef_2014_NS_peraya_19p.pdf