Matthew Hause is a Principal Engineer at SSI, a chair of the UAF group and a member of the OMG SysML V2 specification team. He was a member of the OMG Architecture Board for 10 years. He has been developing multi-national complex systems for over 45 years. He worked in the power systems industry for 20 years developing and commissioning Energy Management Systems throughout the world. He has experience in military command and control systems, process control, manufacturing, factory automation, communications, SCADA, distributed control, office automation and many other areas of technical and real-time systems. His roles have varied from project manager to developer. His role at SSI includes mentoring, sales presentations, standards development, presentations at conferences, specification of the UAF profile and developing and presenting training courses. He has written over 100 technical papers on architectural modeling, project management, systems engineering, model-based engineering, human factors, safety critical systems development, virtual team management, product line engineering, systems of systems, systems and software development with UML, SysML and Architectural Frameworks such as DoDAF, MODAF, and UAF. He has been a regular presenter at INCOSE, the IEEE, BCS, the IET, the OMG, AIAA, NDIA, DoD Enterprise Architecture, Embedded Systems Conference and many other conferences. He was recently a keynote speaker at the Model-based Systems Engineering Symposium at the DSTO in Australia, JCOSE in Japan, and the MBSE Spectacular in England. Matthew studied Electrical Engineering at the University of New Mexico and Computer Science at the University of Houston, Texas. In his spare time, he is a church organist and a grandfather to 5 mischievous children. He is the proud recipient of the INCOSE MBSE Propellor Hat Award.
Adopting, developing, and integrating Digital Engineering (DE) into an organization is complex, labor intensive, and difficult. As with all things, there are many more ways to do things wrong than right. Organizations that have adopted Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) soon come to realize the MBSE is just one part of DE and the Digital Engineering Thread (DET), albeit an essential one. Due to the complexities and diversity of systems and systems engineering organizations, there is no “One Size Fits All” process for systems engineering. The “Right” process for building systems will depend on the system, scale, environment, lifecycle, lifespan, etc. of the systems being developed. In the same way, there is no “Right” way to adopt DE. Add to that the lack of publicized evidence on Return on Investment (ROI) and the natural resistance to DE can become insurmountable. This presentation will start with a description of DE and the DET. It will then highlight a list of practical Do’s and Don’ts when adopting DE as listed below in no particular order. • People, Process, System, and Tool • Get Expert Training and Mentoring • Encourage and Enable Collaboration • Engage with Professional and Standards Organizations • Integrate Rather than Adopt a Process • Make Digital Engineering “HOW” Systems are Developed, Not Extra Work • Orchestrate Configuration Management Across the Digital Engineering Thread • Stay Informed of and Influence Best Practice • Integrate Metrics into your Process • Leverage Model-Based and Digital Reviews • Constantly Evolve the Process • Prototype Your Process for Each Project • Ensure that Project Deliverables can be Generated • Remove “Air Gaps” from the Digital Thread • Adopt Open and Commonly Used Standards – MOSA • Don’t Duplicate Paper-based Processes with Tools • Get the Right Tool for the Right Job • Don’t Abuse Lean and Agile Development • Evaluate Tools How You Will Actually Use Them • Plan, Encourage and Execute Reuse • Adopt Product Line Engineering where Appropriate • Ensure that In-House Tools Can Go the Distance.
Learn the benefits of digital engineering and the digital thread
Provide practical advice on the adoption of digital engineering in an enterprise
