Agile Systems Engineering

Agile Systems Engineering presents a vision of systems engineering where precise specification of requirements, structure, and behavior meet larger concerns as such as safety, security, reliability, and performance in an agile engineering context.

World-renown author and speaker Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass incorporates agile methods and model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to define the properties of entire systems while avoiding errors that can occur when using traditional textual specifications. Dr. Douglass covers the lifecycle of systems development, including requirements, analysis, design, and the handoff to specific engineering disciplines. Throughout, Dr. Douglass couples agile methods with SysML and MBSE to arm system engineers with the conceptual and methodological tools they need to avoid specification defects and improve system quality while simultaneously reducing the effort and cost of systems engineering.

Identifies how the concepts and techniques of agile methods can be effectively applied in systems engineering contextShows how to perform model-based functional analysis and tie these analyses back to system requirements and stakeholder needs, and forward to system architecture and interface definitionProvides a means by which the quality and correctness of systems engineering data can be assured (before the entire system is built!)Explains agile system architectural specification and allocation of functionality to system componentsDetails how to transition engineering specification data to downstream engineers with no loss of fidelityIncludes detailed examples from across industries taken through their stages, including the "Waldo" industrial exoskeleton as a complex system

1. What is Model-Based Systems Engineering? 2. What are Agile Methods and Why Should I Care? 3. The importance of Agile methods 4. Agile Stakeholder Requirements Engineering 5. Agile Systems Requirements Definition and Analysis 6. System Architectural Analysis and Trade Studies 7. Agile Systems Architectural Design 8. The Handoff to Downstream Engineering

Appendix A. T-Wrecks Stakeholder Requirements B. T-Wrecks System Requirements