Fit for Purpose – The Choice of View

Zane Scott, Vitech Vice President of Professional Services One of the quandaries regularly presented to systems engineers is which view or combination of views to use when representing the system model to others. In today’s practice, there is a blessing – and a curse – in the sheer number of …

Time to Drop MBSE?

Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) … model-driven development (MDD) … model-based engineering (MBE) … model-centric engineering (MCE) … digital thread … digital tapestry. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare famously wrote “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” In the case of systems engineering and the drive to models, …

Fundamentals: Often Overlooked, but Vital to Success

Zane Scott, Vitech Vice President of Professional Services Often our mistakes do not result from failing to understand the nuances of complex aspects of our problems. Instead, they are a result of becoming too comfortable with the fundamentals of our processes. That is exactly why athletic teams who experience a …