Welcome back to part three of my specification building series of blogs. If you’ve read the preceding blogs then you should be well versed in specification building up to the constraint section of the specification. The goal of this series is to demystify using the System/Segment Specification Report. My hope …

Systems engineers and systems architects have many architectures of which they need to be aware: there’s the architecture of the system-of-interest (or system under design), the architecture of the larger system in which the system-of-interest must operate (the context system), and the architecture of the enabling system (the enterprise or …

Requirements management is made easier when model-based systems engineering is based on a systems metamodel. An MBSE tool with a systems metamodel behind it is thoroughly integrated, allowing us to be more rigorous and deliberate in our systems engineering efforts. Last month, I discussed the process of refining requirements using …

What makes for good systems engineering? We all know how difficult systems engineering is, but how well are we doing? As I think about maturity levels of organizations, I realize that definitions in the community can be rather heavy on process. I maintain that, although formal processes are best, organizations …