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Attributes of Agile Model-Based PDF
Worried about the growing complexity of systems in your organization? Manage it with recipes for applying agile methodologies and techniques in model-based systems engineering (MBSE) Agile Model-Based PDF
Key Features
Learn how Agile and MBSE can work iteratively and collaborate to overcome system complexity
Develop essential systems engineering products and achieve crucial enterprise objectives with easy-to-follow recipes
Build efficient system engineering models using tried and trusted best practices
Book Description
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.
What you will learn
Apply agile methods to develop systems engineering specifications
Perform functional analysis with SysML
Derive and model systems architectures from key requirements
Model crucial engineering data to clarify systems requirements
Communicate decisions with downstream subsystem implementation teams
Verify specifications with model reviews and simulations
Ensure the accuracy of systems models through model-based testing
Who this book is for
If you are a systems engineer who wants to pursue model-based systems engineering in an agile setting, this book will show you how you can do that without breaking a sweat. Fundamental knowledge of SysML is necessary; the book will teach you the rest.
Table of Contents
Basics of Agile Systems Modeling
System Specification
Developing System Architectures
Handoff to Downstream Engineering
Demonstration of Meeting Needs – Verification and Validation Recipes
Appendix A – The Pegasus Bike Trainer
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The Writers
Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass, Ph.D. has deep and broad expertise as a result of over 40 years’ experience designing safety-critical real-time systems in a variety of hard real-time environments. He is one of the authors of both the UML and SysML standards, and author to over 6000 book pages from a number of technical books including The Harmony aMBSE Deskbook, Agile Systems Engineering, Real-Time UML, Real-Time UML Workshop for Embedded Systems, Real-Time Design Patterns, Doing Hard Time, Real-Time Agility, and Design Patterns for Embedded Systems in C. Many presentations, papers, models, designs, and more can be found on his website. He is currently the Senior Principal Agile Systems Engineer at the MITRE Corporation.
Proportions of Agile Model-Based PDF
- Publisher : Packt Publishing (March 31, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 646 pages
International Standard Book Number-10 : 1838985832
International Standard Book Number-13 : 978-1838985837
Item Weight : 2.41 pounds
Dimensions : 7.5 x 1.46 x 9.25 inches - Agile Model-Based PDF
Reviews From Customers
Moshe C.
Very useful book for modern MBSE practitioners, highly recommended.
April 13, 2021
Many books cover Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), but this one extends the scope of MBSE to other areas that most MBSE practitioners probably don’t touch, such as (the elephant in many rooms) deploying MBSE as part of an Agile development process across the enterprise, or leveraging the system models to drive early verification and validation. More on this later.
I found it easy to use the book for practical situations, primarily because it is focused on workflows, or as the author calls them – recipes. Each workflow starts with its purpose and then defines its inputs and outputs, how to do it and – where applicable – an actual example. I liked it because it allowed me to focus right away on the workflows where I needed clarity, where other workflows can wait. And in case you want to go deeper, you can even download the example models. I didn’t have a need for this (yet) as the examples are well explained throughout the book, with plenty of screenshots. And as the author has a deep experience with the IBM MBSE tool, and the reviewer has a deep experience with the Dassault MBSE tool, the book is useful regardless of your favorite MBSE tool!
I also liked the fact that the book addresses the needs of several types of engineers (or, as often is the case – engineers wearing multiple hats). It covers the application of Agile across the enterprise as an integral part of MBSE, from managing backlogs, to Agile planning, to prioritization, to release planning, product roadmaps and even effective reviews and walk-throughs. These are topics that many systems engineers, especially in industries such as A&D and Automotive, never learned back in Engineering school.
I found the chapter on Functional analysis, or what some may call Logical models, very interesting. The workflows in the book lead you to modeling that is an elaboration on the requirements with scenarios, activities, state machines or even user stories, resulting in models that while they are design independent, they are also executable. This allows you to analyze the requirements for their correctness, completeness, safety and security.
Other workflows address the more common aspects of Systems Engineering, such as Architectural Design going down to Detailed Design, leveraging patterns, abstraction layers, etc. However, the book does not assume that a System always ends up in software (like in a SysML to UML transition). It addresses the workflows for the creation of a deployment architecture and interdisciplinary interfaces that enable a handoff to downstream engineering in multiple domains, such as electrical, mechanical, etc. in addition to software.
Another set of workflows that describe “cool ideas” that only now are starting to be deployed as part of MBSE around leveraging MBSE for early Verification and Validation on one hand, and on the other hand to be used as a reference, and on the other other hand as a test driver for the actual product. The book takes you through all the steps, from identifying the system under test (aka SUT), to the test architecture, test cases, test coverage and even test-driven modeling. These too are subjects that many of us did not learn back at school, and if we did, it was nothing more than just being mentioned in class. The screenshots in the book make all of these concepts very concrete.
And if you are a cyclist, you are already ahead of those who aren’t, because the example used throughout the book is a Pegasus bike trainer… actually, a very cool example, easy to understand, not too complex, but not trivial either.
I highly recommend this book, especially if you are an MBSE practitioner, or managing teams of MBSE practitioners.
jim hopper
No access to examples for Cameo Users
April 2, 2021
I have upped my rating after reading a decent part of the book. It is very well written and informative. I was seriously unhappy that examples are only provided in IBM formats. When you show one of the Cameo Engineers as a reviewer, it does seriously imply access for users of his tools! Even if you are not going to make the examples work in Cameo, I think it would behoove you to at least run them through the Rhapsody->Cameo translator and post those and let the community make them work.
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