Skygazer Consulting
MBSE Coach • INCOSE Fellow • SysML Developer
What Does Skygazer Consulting Do?
I desire to help organizations become more effective by developing and empowering their own internal MBSE/SysML experts, practices, and experience. My preferred relationship to my clients is as a systems modeling coach.
Capturing Systems Engineering Concepts in Models
SysML is designed to represent Systems Engineering concepts in models, where they can be effectively cross-connected, analyzed, and reviewed as a consistent system design baseline. This kind of system model effectively codifies the body of information previously contained in separate engineering documents; user needs, requirements, functional analysis, architecture, analysis plans, trade studies, resulting system design alternatives, integration & testing plans, and deployment strategies.
Assistance in deploying MBSE
Any MBSE deployment must begin by understanding the systems engineering maturity of your organization, suppliers, and customers, and by carefully assessing their readiness to meaningfully employ MBSE, I have helped clients succeed in MBSE deployment and incrementally add value to their systems engineering processes.
Why might you want my help?
I have led the deployment of new processes, tools, and collaboration vehicles in large engineering organizations. I have personally experienced many of the challenges of MBSE deployment. Here are a couple of key lessons:
“Always work with current managers and subject matter experts to ensure they are each positively impacted by any proposed change.”
“Focus engineering process change on areas than can provide incremental value. Ensure each change project has pre-programmed evaluation points and off-ramps.”
“Ensure that simple, familiar artifacts are retained for downstream processes. System engineering process changes in particular usually have a ripple effect on other processes.”
“People don’t resist change. They resist being changed!”