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 …