TABLE OF CONTENTS Technology evolves from the primitive over the complicated to the simple.
( Antoine de Saint-Exup ry)
When you have read this chapter you can answer the following questions: [1]
Why is this book around?
What is systems engineering?
What relation is there between SysML and UML?
How does the content of this book relate to topics like CMMI, V model, or AUTOSAR?
[1]If you can't please write to me and ask me: twe@system-modeling.com.
"Things had been much simpler in the past. You had been able to put something up and get it running with just a handful of people. Today the number of people you need quickly runs up to a hundred to develop a decent system. And even then they don't normally get things right With all those experts from all kinds of disciplines "
I hear such and similar talk increasingly often. As a trainer and consultant, I meet a lot of people from most different industries. But the tone is always the same. What's the reason? Very simple: progress.
We have reached a point where what's needed are complex and distributed systems, but where conventional development methods are not yet ready to make such systems available fast enough and at acceptable cost.
We cannot expect to develop increasingly progressive, larger, and better systems while continue using the same tools. Our approach, the modeling languages we use, and the development environments have to be part of this progress and evolve in line...
