Project Management SIG: SysML/UML Modeling for Project Management January 22, 2009

This talk discusses the feasibility of applying the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) to project management.

Project Management is largely concerned with understanding, coordinating and communicating information about a variety of heterogeneous entities and their behavior to achieve a desired outcome. These are substantially the same attributes defining Systems Engineering which manages technical integration across multiple engineering disciplines.

System Engineering is now moving toward a model based approach for rendering system information. This entails placing those artifacts in a database and expressing them, their relationships and behavior in a semantically consistent fashion. The enabling technology for this effort is the recently introduced open specification called the Systems Modeling Language (SysML).

This approach offers several important benefits, including:

1. Maintainability in a volatile environment
2. Consistency across the system
3. Multiple views into the system meeting different stakeholder needs.

In short, all stakeholders have a consistent understanding of the project: who, what, how, why and when. The expectation is that this approach results in systems having fewer errors and shorter development times.

Speaker Bio

Ted Kahn has been involved with software development for a number of years including recently at Taligent/IBM and Portal Software.Currently at NASA he is working on the manned moon/Mars mission looking at applying SysML to various aspects of the program.

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