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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)

Traceability

Traceability in a model means that it is possible to navigate among related elements, even if those elements are of different kinds or located in different packages. This is an important part of model verification because it enables you to ensure the consistency of information that may be represented in fundamentally different ways or in different parts of the model; for example:

  • Are the requirements properly represented in the use case functional analysis?
  • Do the design elements properly satisfy the requirements?
  • Is the design consistent with the architectural principles?
  • Do the physical interfaces properly realize the logical interface definitions?

The value of traceability goes well beyond model verification. The primary reasons for providing traceability are to support the following:

  1. Impact analysis: determine the impact of change, such as the following:
    • If I change this requirement or this design element, what are the elements that...