Last year I shared with you Layer 1 of planning a holiday feast using a systems approach. We defined our requirements, considers concerns, identified risks, and even started thinking about our architecture at a high level. Let’s quickly review. Here’s what my requirements looked like: After considering concerns and risks, …

One of the reasons I love my job is that I have the opportunity to talk to prospective customers about their project pain points, and I help them develop a system solution to address their needs. As a result of these initial conversations, the topic inevitably turns to a model-based …

Lately I have been assisting a number of customers in developing formal documentation directly from the engineering design repository in CORE™. Use of the Formal Documentation features in CORE is topic of particular interest to users during delivery of the training class. Over my next several blog posts, I will …

For any issue of meaningful complexity where multiple specialists must come together to develop a solution, systems engineers sit at the technical heart of the solution. We strive to fully understand the problem space, fully understand the bounds associated with the possible implementation technologies, and ultimately expand the trade space …