Agile Systems Engineering

by Bruce Powel Douglass

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128021200
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/14/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	452
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Embedded Software Methodologist. Triathlete. Systems engineer. Contributor to UML and SysML specifications. Writer. Black Belt. Neuroscientist. Classical guitarist. High school dropout. Bruce Powel Douglass, who has a doctorate in neurocybernetics from the USD Medical School, has over 35 years of experience developing safety-critical real-time applications in a variety of hard real-time environments. He is the author of over 5700 book pages from a number of technical books including 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. He is the Chief Evangelist at IBM Rational, where he is a thought leader in the systems space and consulting with and mentors IBM customers all over the world. He can be followed on Twitter @BruceDouglass. Papers and presentations are available at his Real-Time UML Yahoo technical group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT-UML) and from his IBM thought leader page (www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/leadership/thought/brucedouglass.html).

Table of Contents

1. What is Model-Based Systems Engineering? 2. What are Agile Methods and Why Should I Care? 3. The importance of Agile methods4. Agile Stakeholder Requirements Engineering5. Agile Systems Requirements Definition and Analysis6. System Architectural Analysis and Trade Studies7. Agile Systems Architectural Design8. The Handoff to Downstream Engineering

AppendixA. T-Wrecks Stakeholder RequirementsB. T-Wrecks System Requirements

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Couples Agile methods with system concepts to help avoid many common specification defects and improve system quality, while reducing the effort and cost of systems engineering