Webinar
ASoTs, Digital Threads, and Views - Oh My!
Ask a dozen engineers to define digital thread, and you will get a baker's dozen definitions. This is true of many other digital engineering terms, including an authoritative source of truth (ASoT), what constitutes the "content" of an ASoT. Even the more technical terms above have taken on buzzword status within digital engineering, making them difficult to use in formal discussions about digital engineering.
We, as engineers, need to reclaim these terms if we are to leverage them to make meaningful progress in the execution of digital engineering. We must establish clear definitions that convey these terms' roles within programs and enterprises. We must ensure these definitions are concise, supporting many stakeholders to establish a shared understanding of the terms. We need to craft these terms with measurable definitions that create a foundation for establishing requirements that these terms must satisfy. We need to model definitions and architecture for these key terms of digital engineering that we can all share and build upon.
What you will learn:
- An approach for modeling definitions that can be used as the foundation for developing architecture to realize those definitions
- A proposed set of formal definitions for these key terms of digital engineering modeled according to the presented approach
- How the definitions can be transformed into an architecture for digital engineering