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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)

Preface

Welcome to Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook! There is a plethora of published material available in relation to agile methods, provided that you want to create software and it is also the case that the system is small, the team is co-located, and it needn't be certified, or safety-critical, or have high reliability.

Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is, of course, none of these things. The output of MBSE isn't software implementation but system specification. It is usually applied to more complex and larger-scale systems. The teams are diverse and often spread out across departments and companies. Much of the time, the systems produced must be certified under various standards, including safety standards. So how do you apply agile methods to such an endeavor?

Most of the work in MBSE can be managed through a set of workflows that produce a set of interrelated work products. Each of these workflows can be described with relatively simple recipes for creating the work products for MBSE, including system requirements, system architecture, system interfaces, and deployment architecture. That's what this book brings to the table and what sets it apart.