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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)

Architectural allocation

The recipes for functionally analyzing use cases have multiple outcomes. The primary outcome is a set of high-quality requirements. The second is identifying a number of system features – system functions, data, and flows. The third outcome is identifying interfaces necessary to support the behavior outlined in the use case. This recipe focuses on allocating the first two of these to the subsystem architecture.

Purpose

The purpose of this recipe is to detail the specification of the subsystems so that we can hand off those specifications to the interdisciplinary subsystem teams for detailed design and development.

Inputs and preconditions

A set of requirements and system features have been identified, and a subsystem architecture has been created so that each subsystem has a defined mission (scope and content).

Outputs and postconditions

The primary outcome of this recipe is a specification for each subsystem. This includes the following...