MBSE Ecosystem Overview

Lonnie VanZandt, Enterprise Architect, Sodius
TIMLM Working Group co-Chair

What we seek in a
"Modern, better, Systems Engineering"
ecosystem

MLM Vision: Purgatory

We see:

“a community of Systems (and discipline-specific) Engineers struggling to persist and to reference the artifacts of engineering over the lifecycle of each enterprise;

a community of Stakeholders and Decision-makers forced to make decisions irrationally and intuitively due to
a lack of access to the defensible arguments
that both legacy documentary and innovative
model-based systems engineering
should provide."

Doré, Gustave, 1868, Dante purgatorio

MLM Vision: Paradise

We see:

"a day when engineers use distributed systems that automatically persist artifacts in compact, modular form along with the provenance of each modification;

a day when engineers can reference the current and the historical representation of both individual artifacts and collections thereof along with the relational graphs
between artifacts;

a day when stakeholders make rational
decisions using the Systems Engineers’
explicit sound dialectical and rhetorical
arguments based on the provenance of
content and change.”

Doré, Gustave, 1868, Dante e Beatrice

Paraphrasing Charlton and Adras, management is a process by which managers reflectively model and share a representation of their own processes to enable themselves to perform their eponymous information-processing activities of monitoring, evaluating, predicting, and controlling their enterprise and its systems. [@Charlton2003]

Furthermore, managers manage for particular purposes. Purpose-driven, they acquire systems to address the needs of the enterprise and they manage their stakeholders, engineering lifecycle tools, and artifacts during the acquisition processes to attain certain goals. [@VanZandt2016]

Management?

  In “Mob Programming, A Whole Team Approach”, the authors describe, “mob programming”, an evolution of pair programming as, “all the brilliant minds working together on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer” [@Zuill2016].

  The TIMLMWG intends the term "Collaborative Engineering" to be a variation of this mob programming concept. Blending in Sun Microsystems’ John Gage’s marketing campaign that “the network is the computer” and allowing the “same space” to be the “same virtual space”, the TIMLMWG describes collaborative engineering as: ...

Collaboration?

"All the brilliant minds working together on the same thing, at the same time, in the same virtual space, and on the same worldwide network."

[@VanZandt2016]

Collaboration

Lifecycle Management

Intention

Decisions

Provenance

Governance

Identity

Identification

Trust

Roles

Rights

Access-Control

Incrementalism

Partial Information

Open-World

Inferences

Implication

Fine-Grained State Updates

Diff / Merge

Ideation

Concept Maps

Business Vocabularies

Ontologies

Subjectivity

Curation

Illustration

Graphics

Diff / Merge

Presentation Documents

Verifications

Simulations

Argumentation

Interoperability

Integration

Composability

Export / Transform / Load

Sync

Semantic Translation

Grammar Evolution

Inspiration!

Innovation!

Now we Need Some:

and Implementations.

Presenter Info

• Enterprise Architect, Sodius
• (ex) Chief Architect, No Magic
• (ex) UPDM Co-chair
• INCOSE Tools WG Co-chair
• OMG BPMN2 Certified
• OSLC Developer
• IBM Jazz CLM Integration Partner
• PTC Windchill Integration Partner
• Tasktop Sync Partner
• ~30 years Software and Systems Engineering
• 17 years Consulting
• Hobby Ontologist