Category: Model-Based Systems Engineering

You Were Always on My Mind

Willie Nelson getting ready to perform. Farm Aid 2009. Photo by Larry Philpot www.soundstagephotography.com On April 29 Willie had a birthday. “Maybe I didn’t love you- Quite as often as I could have” sings the just turned 80 year old legend, Willie Nelson, in his classic “You Were Always on …

MBSE Value Proposition

  Recently a LinkedIn MBSE group post posed a fundamental question, “How can we move organizations from a document-centric approach to model-based systems engineering?” This raises a very basic inquiry into the ways to advocate the model-based systems engineering value proposition. There are two questions implied in this inquiry. The …

Finding SOA’s Missing Link

    The critical aim of the service-oriented architecture is to bring services to the business enterprise. In the world of enterprise architecture, the service is defined as a unit of functionality packaged for convenient and consistent use. While this definition is accurate as far as it goes, it leaves …