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Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass
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Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass

Overview of this book

Agile MBSE can help organizations manage change while ensuring system correctness and meeting customers’ needs. But deployment challenges have changed since our first edition. The Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook’s second edition focuses on workflows – or recipes – 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. In this 2nd edition, the Cameo MagicDraw Systems Modeler tool – the most popular tool for MBSE – is used in examples (models are downloadable by readers). Written by a world-renowned expert in MBSE, this book will take you through systems engineering workflows in the Cameo Systems Modeler SysML modeling tool and show you how they can be used with an agile and model-based approach. You’ll start with the key concepts of agile methods for systems engineering. Next, each recipe will take you through initiating a project, outlining stakeholder needs, defining and analyzing system requirements, specifying 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 learn how to implement systems engineering workflows and create systems engineering models.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Other Books You May Enjoy
7
Index
Appendix A: The Pegasus Bike Trainer

Preface

Welcome to the Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook! There is a plethora of published material for agile methods, provided that you want to create software. And the system is small. And the team is co-located. And it needn’t be certified. Or safety-critical or high-reliability.

MBSE is 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 thought of as 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, systems architecture, system interfaces, and deployment architectures. That’s what this book brings to the table and what sets it apart.

In this second edition, some new recipes have been added and all the examples and figures have been done using the Cameo Systems Modeler SysML tool.