Will we finally get interactive specifications?
Machine-readable specifications can also be designed interactively, which is often done with the right arm of the V-model.
Interview with Maik Pfingsten on the German SE community
Anyone who does systems engineering and enjoys listening to podcasts will certainly be familiar with Maik Pfingsten's Zukunftsarchitekten. This is just one of the many activities with which he is helping to build up the systems engineering community in Germany. Maik started his career as a troubleshooter in SE and is now an author, speaker and mentor. Maik has also...
From the requirement to the model
An important discipline of systems engineering is the analysis of requirements. There are enough studies to prove that solving a problem in the requirements phase is orders of magnitude cheaper than in later phases. Requirements analysis is therefore of particular importance. In this article, I present a method to go from requirements to a solid model...
Why we need to distinguish between reading and writing when modeling
Systems engineering often involves modeling. And that means that the stakeholders have to learn the modeling language. This often involves training. But it can be a big mistake to give all stakeholders the same training. Why? Because reading and writing models are drastically different. Modeling is hard... Modeling is hard. First of all, the...
Five trends in systems engineering
The Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey has a beautiful view of the New York skyline. It also has a program in Systems Engineering. There is a white paper from Stevens Institute of Technology on the Five Trends Transforming Systems Engineering, which I comment on below: 1. Systems Engineering is becoming a career path for...
