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Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook

By : Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass
Book Image

Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook

By: Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass

Overview of this book

Agile MBSE can help organizations manage constant change and uncertainty while continuously ensuring system correctness and meeting customers’ needs. But deploying it isn’t easy. Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook is a little different from other MBSE books out there. This book focuses on workflows – or recipes, as the author calls them – that will help MBSE practitioners and team leaders address practical situations that are part of deploying MBSE as part of an agile development process across the enterprise. Written by Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass, a world-renowned expert in MBSE, this book will take you through important systems engineering workflows and show you how they can be performed effectively with an agile and model-based approach. You’ll start with the key concepts of agile methods for systems engineering, but we won’t linger on the theory for too long. Each of the recipes will take you through initiating a project, defining stakeholder needs, defining and analyzing system requirements, designing system architecture, performing model-based engineering trade studies, all the way to handling systems specifications off to downstream engineering. By the end of this MBSE book, you’ll have learned how to implement critical systems engineering workflows and create verifiably correct systems engineering models.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Iteration plan

The iteration plan plans out a specific iteration in more detail, so that the planning horizon is a single iteration. This is typically 1-4 weeks in duration. This is the last chance to adjust the expectations of the iteration before work begins.

Purpose

The purpose of the iteration plan is to ensure that the work allocated to the iteration is achievable, decompose the larger-scale work items (for example, use cases and technical work items) into smaller work items, and plan for completion of the iteration.

Inputs and preconditions

Preconditions include the release plan and the initial iteration backlog.

Outputs and post conditions

Post conditions include the complete work items, generated engineering work products, identified defects, and technical work items (pushed into the product backlog), and uncompleted work items (also pushed back onto the product backlog).

How to do it…

Use cases in the iteration backlog, which may take an...