I know the slogan “Be agile, not fragile” has been used so often it’s become cliché, but I’ve got some new insight. The “agile method of software development”* has become the predominant pattern for software development in the world today, and has found traction outside of the traditional enclave of …

The main purpose of a systems engineering tool is to augment the work of the systems engineer by providing a framework in which to construct a model of the system. This helps in two major ways. It allows the tool to do the record keeping, assuring the consistency and completeness …

We often think about verification as something that is done toward the end of the development phase of a program, which must be concluded just prior to entering the operational phase. While that is true in terms of execution and reporting of the final, formal verification activities, in reality, the …

In the past few months I’ve been writing about how to model basic SysML concepts of behavior using GENESYS. SysML has three largely separate approaches for modeling behavior: activities, interactions, and states. I’ve covered the modeling of behavior using activities and interactions in August (Modeling SysML Activities in GENESYS) and …