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# Getting Started

- [Get Started with BERT](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/readme.md)
- [Starting Your First Analysis](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/creating-your-first-system.md)
- [Step 1: Starting a New Project](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/creating-your-first-system/step-1-starting-a-new-project.md)
- [Step 2: Define Your System of Interest](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/creating-your-first-system/step-2-define-your-system-of-interest.md)
- [Step 3: Identify Primary Output](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/creating-your-first-system/step-3-identify-primary-output.md)
- [Step 4: Define Output Interface](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/creating-your-first-system/step-4-define-output-interface.md)
- [Step 5: Add Output Receiver](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/creating-your-first-system/step-5-add-customer-sink.md)
- [Step 6: Add a Waste Output](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/creating-your-first-system/step-6-add-a-waste-output.md)
- [Step 7: Identify Primary Inputs](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/creating-your-first-system/step-7-identify-primary-inputs.md)
- [Step 8: Traverse The Boundary](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/creating-your-first-system/step-8-traverse-the-boundary.md)
- [Step 9: Add Boundary Handlers](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/creating-your-first-system/step-9-add-boundary-subsystems.md)
- [Step 10: Add Internal Processors](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/creating-your-first-system/step-10-adding-internal-flows.md)
- [Step 11: Go Deeper with Recursive Analysis](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/creating-your-first-system/step-11-system-decomposition.md)
- [Controls and Interface](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/controls-and-interface.md)
- [Glossary](https://bert.gitbook.io/bert-documentation/getting-started/glossary.md)
