Bruce Powel Douglass - Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook: Improve system development by applying proven recipes for effective agile systems engineering

Improve system development by applying proven recipes for effective agile systems engineering

Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass, Ph.D.

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Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass, Ph.D.

Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass was raised by wolves in the Oregon wilderness. He taught himself to read at age 3 and calculus before age 12. He dropped out of school when he was 14 and traveled around the US for a few years before entering the University of Oregon as a mathematics major. He eventually received his MS in exercise physiology from the University of Oregon and his Ph.D. in neurocybernetics from the USD Medical School.

Bruce has worked as a software developer and systems engineer in safety-critical real-time embedded systems for almost 40 years and is a well-known speaker, author, and consultant in the area of real-time embedded systems, UML, and SysML. He is a coauthor of the UML and SysML standards. He develops and teaches courses as well as consulting in real-time systems and software design and project management and has done so for many years. He has authored articles for many journals and periodicals, especially in the real-time domain. He worked at I-Logix, Telelogic, and IBM on the Rhapsody modeling tool. He is currently a senior principal agile systems engineer at MITRE, and the principal at A-Priori Systems (www.bruce-douglass.com).

He is the author of several other books on systems and software development, including Doing Hard Time: Developing Real-Time Systems with UML,

Objects, Frameworks and Patterns (Addison-Wesley, 1999), Real-Time Design Patterns:

Robust Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Systems (Addison-Wesley, 2002), Real-Time

UML 3rd Edition: Advances in the UML for Real-Time Systems (Addison-Wesley, 2004),

Real-Time Agility (Addison-Wesley, 2009), Design Patterns for Embedded Systems in C

(Elsevier, 2011), Real-Time UML Workshop for Embedded Systems (Elsevier, 2014), Agile

Systems Engineering (Elsevier, 2016), and several others, including a short textbook on table tennis.

Bruce is an active Ironman triathlete and competitive ultra-marathon cyclist.

Saulius Pavalkis spent 18 years at Dassault Systems (No Magic) in model-based solutions and the core R&D team. Currently, he is working as an MBSE transformation leader. He is an expert in systems modeling, simulation, the MBSE ecosystem, interfaces and integrations, traceability, and queries.

He has won the INCOSE CSEP, OMG OCSMP, and No Magic lifetime modeling and simulation excellence awards and is a community author for the largest SysML simulation channel (youtube.com/c/MBSEExecution) and an MBSE success cases blog, (blog.nomagic.com).

He is also the author of multiple papers on MBSE at INCOSE and NDIA. In 2020, he acquired a $20 million budget for the implementation of the V&V paper. He is also a representative at INCOSE CAB and supports MBSE adoption in A&D, T&M, and other domains. His major clients are P&W, Boeing, NASA, BAE Systems, Raytheon Technologies, NGC, and Ford.