DT FAQ: How are Agile MBSE & Digital Engineering related?

How does Agile MBSE relate to Digital Engineering?

FAQ Variant(s): How does MBSE relate to Digital Twins?

Agile MBSE™ is a hybrid Systems Engineering process that combines the strengths and avoids the weaknesses of both "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. For more information about Agile MBSE, see PivotPoint FAQ: What is Agile MBSE™??

So how does MBSE in general, or Agile MBSE in particular, relate to architecting and designing Digital Twins?

Agile MBSE technologies provide the architecture infrastructure necessary for recursively scaling and simulating Digital Twins. Agile MBSE technologies are the distillation of a quarter century of lessons-learned from Model-Driven Development (MDD), Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), and Agile/Lean Development technologies, and can provide the recursive architecture and design patterns needed to address the fractal Digital Twin System-of-System challenge.