Category: Systems Engineering

Leadership and Systems Thinking

Two commonly confused concepts in our lexicon are management and leadership. We use the terms “manager” and “leader” interchangeably. I am our company’s Professional Services Team Leader, but much of what I do is best described as management. Common usage aside, what does it mean to “lead” as opposed to …

Model Adaptation for Agile DevOps – Part 2: Top-down

Recap from Part 1 of the discussion: I was tasked with building a thread of system features related to the control, guidance, and navigation of a military aircraft.  The end product must show the system’s behavior at different hierarchical levels: system capabilities, system features, and subsystem features.  The model must …

Automating Organization – The Code!

Welcome back! In the last post, I walked you through creating a custom button in GENESYS that moved an entity from its current folder into a new folder named after that entity and moved any descendant entities along with it. This little helper function can make organizing your model organization …

Model Adaptation for Agile DevOps – Part 1: The Challenge

As modern systems become increasingly complex, the need for Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) emerges rapidly from many organizations’ search to understand different design tools and methodologies. MBSE is now popular even outside of Aerospace and Department of Defense programs.  At the same time, software development demands to be quick, agile, …