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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)

Preparation for handoff

Once the system's model has all the data necessary for the downstream engineering teams to work, it is necessary to manipulate it for the transition from systems engineering. This recipe prepares the model for this transition process to begin

Purpose

The purpose of this recipe is to facilitate the handoff from systems engineering to downstream engineering. This will consist of a review of the handoff specifications for adequacy and organizing the information to facilitate the handoff activities. Ideally, each subsystem team needs to access system model information in specific and well-defined locations and they only see information that is necessary in order for them to perform their work.

Inputs and preconditions

The precondition for this recipe is that the architecture is defined well enough to be handed off to subsystem teams for design and development. This means that the following preconditions are necessary:

  1. The system requirements...