System engineering: It's the challenge, it's the fun!

Yesterday I took my twin boys in a cab for the first time, and I got to experience the "Mother's Perspective" of the features I had worked for.

1. Even though it's not a right practice to enable child lock in cabs, I had to do it myself. I wished I had a mother's wand to open the doors from inside, in case of any kind of emergency!

2. The red coloured emergency button was the victim of the naughtiness of my boys. The driver was worried that the police would catch him if the button was pressed. As a mother, at that moment I deeply wanted the feature to not work.

As a System Engineer of these features, I never had envisoned these use cases in my consciousness.

This experience made me realize yet again that System Engineering is the extremely critical piece of the product development cycle. It's the challenge. It's the fun.