Preface
Welcome to Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook! There is a plethora of published material available in relation to agile methods, provided that you want to create software and it is also the case that the system is small, the team is co-located, and it needn't be certified, or safety-critical, or have high reliability.
Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is, of course, 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 managed through 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, system architecture, system interfaces, and deployment architecture. That's what this book brings to the table and what sets it apart.
