INCOSE Enchantment: Establishing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Pipelines for MBSE
INCOSE Enchantment: Establishing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Pipelines for MBSE
Date: 14 January 2025
Time: 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM Mountain Time
Venue: Online via ZOOM
Registration: Zoom link is provided in the meeting invitation; contact enchantment@incose.net to request the meeting invitation
Abstract: ISO/IEC/IEEE 24641:2023 “Methods and Tools for Model-Based Systems and Software Engineering” says that “engineering activities rely on evolving models that serve as the main or major source of knowledge about the system-of-interest and its life cycle processes”. Unsurprisingly, 24641 considers models central and essential to MBSSE and identifies numerous activities related to building and verifying models explicitly.
With the ascension of Digital Engineering, the systems engineering community would do well to embrace and adopt proven best practices from the software engineering community; namely, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) as a key element of modern software-based DevOps (and DevSecOps). CI/CD principles require teams to adopt a repeatable reliable process, leverage automation, exploit modern version control capabilities, while focusing on delivering informative quality metrics.
This presentation will provide an introduction to both 24641 and CI/CD practices for the modern systems engineer. The session will discuss how to leverage modern version control technologies such as GitHub for full lifecycle model development and management. In addition to discussing how to leverage CI/CD tools for better visibility into the MBSE lifecycle, the session will describe how model validation and verification (with meaningful model-based quality metrics) support a fast-paced, yet meticulous, approach to systems engineering.
Speaker: Mr. Chris Armstrong, President/Chief Architect of Armstrong Process Group, Inc. (APG), is an internationally recognized thought leader in business/enterprise architecture, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and agile development. Mr. Armstrong represents APG at the Object Management Group (OMG), INCOSE, The Open Group, and the Business Architecture Guild. Mr. Armstrong is certified in TOGAF, ArchiMate, IT4IT, UML, SysML, and is a Certified Business Architect (CBA). Mr. Armstrong received a B.S. in Astrophysics from the University of Minnesota.