Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook: Improve system development by applying proven recipes for effective agile systems engineering, 2nd Edition 2nd ed. Edition

Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass has created a book that Agile and MBSE fans cannot put down. He captures a complete example with using SysML with a popular toolset, and presents it all with very detailed set of process flow.His realistic example will allow you to understand what you get when you model with SysML and as a practitioner and teacher it is not all roses. The language is what it is, and Dr. Douglass embraces it with style and technical skill.Before you start on Agile MBSE journey using SysML you need to read this book and ask yourself the question, “Are we ready, to start this journey, is our organization ready to embrace it.”We at the highwater mark of SysML as we know it. SysML V2 is about to be released and there will be changes and new capabilities that it will bring. This cookbook captures the current state from a Master Chef’s perspective, and it will be used to judge if SysML V2 delivers on the promise.

The book is well written. The first chapter covers the basics of agile systems modeling. It discusses the fundamental agile concepts, expressed as recipes, such as managing your backlog, using metrics effectively, managing project risk, agile planning, work effort estimation and prioritization, starting up projects, creating an initial systems architecture, and organizing your systems engineering models. The next chapter is on the system specification. It covers agile model-based systems requirements – capturing, managing, and analyzing the system specification. One of the powerful tools that MBSE brings to the table is the ability to analyze requirements by developing computable andexecutable models. The third chapter is on developing systems architecture. It focuses on the development of systems architectures. It begins with a way of doing model-based trade studies. The chapter provides recipes for integrating use-case analyses into a systems architecture, applying architectural patterns, allocating requirements into a systems architecture, and creating subsystem-level interfaces.The fourth chapter is on a handoff to downstream engineering. It covers how to hand the information developed in the models off to implementation engineers specializing in software, electronics, or mechanical engineering. This chapter provides detailed recipes for getting ready to do the handoff, creating a federation of models to support the collaborative engineering effort to follow, converting the logical systems engineering interfaces to physical interface schemas, and doing the allocation to the engineering disciplines involved. The final chapter is on the demonstration of meeting needs. It covers recipes for model simulation, model-based testing, computable constraint modeling, adding traceability, how to run effective walkthroughs and reviews, and test-driven modeling.

Love this book a true cook book for agile mbse

(I was provided a copy of this book for review)I currently own a copy of the first edition of this book and was happy with the changes made in the second edition. It's a lengthy text but within the chapters is information any modeler at any stage of their career can benefit from. You'll get the most out of the book if you're starting a system from scratch using MBSE, but many of the concepts outlined still apply even if the model is not being used a system development tool (as is very often the case).I as a lead modeler personally benefited a lot from the recipes which laid out how to specifically apply Agile to a model development program. The book has much, much more to offer and I appreciate that I can keep a copy "on my desk" and keep coming back to it as I need!

Book is quite rich in MBSEincluding SysML and all that but not in Agile MBSE that figures in the title. Set your expectations accordingly. Like most books, there are some worthy content in there but IMHO the book is not worth the money if you are looking for Agile info other than basics. That maybe bcause Agile in itself is a hyped up methodology drummed up by web app developers and is really a rebranded 'Spiral Development' methodology that I used back in the very early 1990s. Sprial Development worked extremely well for a complex system that had a mix of high-tech hardware and software. It met the most some of the most important goals of Agile - customer expectations should drive things and they could change over the course of the execution cycle. It is as simple as that. Common sense really.For me, this book was educational on SysML but not on what I was looking for in terms of sys eng in Agile. Not worth the 50+ bucks.

I read Edition 1 of this book, and can say that Edition 2 is a much improved over the original.1. He cut out the fluff/redundancy of listing things that he's going to talk about and then talking about them right after.2. The tips and tricks callouts are more salient now3. The biggest change: He converted to Cameo Systems Modeler for the examples instead of IBM Rhapsody. This makes the book much easier to digest for the multitude in the MBSE community who use that tool.

This book does what so many technical books fail to do; acts as a introduction/overview of the subject with Chapter 1 and then proceeds to provide a practitioner everything they need to execute a complete systems agile project in MBSE.What really sets this book apart from others is that just about every page has a diagram on it, reinforcing what the text has explained of the process.

It's clearly written and has good general knowledge of MBSE processes. But the overt political philosophy of the website you're referred to for details was inappropriate. I had suggested the author as a potential speaker for a conference, but that stuff turned people off.