Simple SysML for Beginners: Using Sparx Enterprise Architect

As a new program manager, I found this book essential to learning how to do my job. I am just getting into Model-Based Systems Engineering and this book has helped me learn how to leverage the capabilities of Enterprise Architect much faster than I would have been able to on my own.

Good book in general, but It would be nice to have it available as a paperback or hardcover book too. In the Kindle version, some figures are so tiny that makes them illegible (see snapshot). The ancillary files are sometimes helpful to reconstruct what's going on in one of those figures. However, the ancillary files contain the finalized version of the diagram or process or whatever the author is trying to illustrate, but you do not always know how to get there. The step by step process of how to get there is illustrated by a sequence of figures, which are supposed to be legible to effectively guide you (at least, that is the author's main premise from the very beginning).

I purchased this book when my boss started talking about MBSE, Cameo, and SysML. Because I was a novice. I picked this book with "beginners" in the title. It was not a good choice for me. It is basic but did not have enough examples of real applications for me to translate to my business. I recommend the Delligatti book as a starting point for learning SysML. Of course, this is just my preference of teaching methods. This book is for beginners, but I prefer a different teaching method.

I found this book unhelpful. As an example, the discussion of requirements models has on the most superficial discussion of the fundamental attributes of a simple requirement, states that there are six different type of relationship among requirements, and pints you to several books to learn more. There is no relationship diagram or model of any value without sufficient definition of relationships.

This book has been an incredibly valuable resource for deploying SysML and Enterprise Architect across our organization. We're a medical device startup working to integrate teams of engineers, optical scientists and biochemists to develop new diagnostic tools. The products we are developing are inherently complex and multidisciplinary, and integrating Model Based Systems Engineering is what is allowing us to move fast towards a product.The examples in the book are great - they provide context that was relatable for my team in a way that they could understand the concepts without having to think too hard about what is being described.I would highly recommend this book as a way to introduce a team to the core concepts of SysML and some of the quirks of modeling SysML in Enterprise Architect. That said I'd also recommend having some of the other books by Deligatti and Friedenthal available as well as a resource when it comes time to dive deep into one or more of the topics that relate to whatever you are working on.

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Very very happy to find this.I did a SysML & Enterprise Architect (EA) course a few years back, and bought "A Pratical Guide to SysML" by Sanford Friedenthal et al., as I have been enthusiatic about Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) for some time. However, partly due to the lack of widescale adoption in the contracts I have working on, it has been really hard to get going with MBSE using EA and SysML, even after I bought a personal copy of EA14. I had found EA is just unintuitive and it has been difficult to create diagrams, so I often resorted to Visio to express what I needed to express and often gave up on modelling.Finally, I spotted this e-book on Amazon and was overjoyed. I looked at it and realised that it was exactly what I needed. David Hetherington has clearly spotted that many system engineers are in the situation and has created a simple guide for learning SySML in EA and getting to grips with the basics of MBSE in a way that is straightforward and digestible.I have been working through the e-book, with Kindle open on my right-hand screen and Enterprise Architect open on my left hand screen. I felt confident that I am imbibing MBSE and how to do it in EA with SysML, with simple, practical exercises and scenarios; very much learning by doing with broader system engineering explanations and perspectives included. The Quick Start chapter is a real confidence booster, before delving into further details in the following chapters.Absolutely brilliant.I will also be able to make full use of "A Pratical Guide to SysML" by Sanford Friedenthal et al, which is a fantastic book, now that my basic understanding of MBSE is re-inforced and I am being proficient in EA.Thank you David. Fantastic e-book.

Chapter 5 example doesn't work on EA v15.0, so couldn't progress, so that about killed it for the rest of the book. Explanations are thin; at times you are creating this and setting that, with little to no explanation why, or all the various actions and blocks and signals and blocks in a bdd, or ibd, or linked or instance...not put into adequate context to facilitate understanding.

Great book if you want to get started using SysML in EA! The step by step description with screenshots are really great and will get you acquinted with EA in no-time! Definitely recommend.