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What is Agile MBSE™ (Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering™)?

FAQ Variant(s): What is Agile Systems Engineering?

Agile MBSE™: a hybrid Systems Engineering process that combines the strengths, and avoids the weaknesses, of "heavyweight" (a.k.a. "high ceremony", or "obese") Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) processes and "lighweight" (a.k.a., "low ceremony" or "anorexic") Agile processes (e.g., Agile Software Development, Agile Engineering). The resultant "middleweight" Agile MBSE process is inherently more resilient (i.e., robust yet flexible) than either of its constituent processes, and consequently supports highly scaleable and simulatable system architectures.

As you might expect, a bona fide Agile MBSE Process requires a bona fide Agile SysML architecture modeling language to specify both MBSE work artifacts (e.g., System-of-System Architecture Model (SAM), Interface Control Docs) as well as itself (i.e., be self-descriptive). Towards that end PivotPoint has defined AgileML™ (Agile Modeling Language™), a "Lean" (as in Lean manufacturing and methods) subset of the OMG UML2/SysMLarchitecture modeling language standards that is extended for specifying scalable and simulatable Abile MBSE work artifacts.