Date: 14 May 2015

Issue: 2015-3

In This Issue

Creativity and Problem Solving Part 1: The Forgotten Phase

Zane Scott, Vitech Vice President of Professional Services

Creativity and problem solving follow a track that moves from the identification and definition of the problem through a relatively rapid generation of alternatives into a deliberative consideration of the merits of a subset of those alternatives and finally to a selection and definition of the solution. This process occurs in one form or another with the quality of the outcome riding on how intentionally each stage is executed and supported.  Read More.

4 Myths and Misconceptions of MBSE

David Long, Vitech President, INCOSE President

Over the last nine years, many engineering organizations and countless systems practitioners have invested significant time and energy into the transition from document-centric to model-centric systems engineering. During this time, we have made notable progress. Unfortunately, we have also contributed to – if not created – several myths and misconceptions which serve neither the transition nor the greater practice of systems engineering. Read More.

Announcing the New Customer Resource Center

Bethany Maddox, Vitech Customer Support Specialist

The Vitech Customer Care team is very pleased to announce our new Customer Resource Center on our website, built with user feedback and designed to provide you the resources you need regardless of your level of experience with Vitech software and methodology. Read More.

The Three Systems Engineering Apporaches: Top-down, Middle-out, and Bottom Up

Sara Sumner, Vitech Applications Engineer

A part of my work as an Applications Engineer at Vitech is to meet with prospective and current clients and discuss how Vitech’s model-based systems engineering solution can assist them with their engineering efforts. I have the opportunity to learn about each client’s unique situation and assist the team in diagnosing the problem and then finally prescribing a solution. A common discovery, is that while each client has a unique and challenging systems engineering problem, teams often do not optimize on the best approach for solving that problem. Read More. 

Choosing Between a Use Case and Threads / Scenarios

Ron Kratzke, Vitech Principal Systems Engineer

As a systems engineer, I have found that when working with complex projects, it is critically important to capture the relationships between the product and the functional work allocation. Capturing these relationships can help manage the uncertainty of impacts on the project when inevitable changes are introduced throughout the lifecycle and assist with the balance of resources needed to design and implement the system. Read More.