1. MLM A-Team What? The Model Lifecycle Management Activity Team
Chair: Lonnie VanZandt
INCOSE Connect address:
INCOSE Web page:
Other Web page:
Number of Members: ~55
Number of Members Participating in IW: TBD

2. Charter
Purpose identify the scope of model management and address the concerns of the community.
Goal prioritize issues and establish scenarios and best practices that address the concerns of the community.
Scope all models throughout the complete lifecycle

3. Vision
We see a community of Systems (and discipline-specific) Engineers struggling to persist and to reference the artifacts of engineering over the lifecycle of each enterprise. We see a community of Stakeholders and Decision-makers forced to make decisions irrationally and intuitively due to a lack of access to the defensible argument of both legacy documentary and innovative model-based systems engineering.
We see a day when engineers use distributed systems that automatically persist artifacts in compact, modular form along with the provenance of each modification.
We see a day when engineers can reference the current and the historical representation of both individual artifacts and collections thereof along with the relational graphs between artifacts.
We see a day when stakeholders make rational decisions using the Systems Engineers’ explicit sound dialectical and rhetorical arguments based on the provenance of content and change.
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January 2016

4. Mission
Prioritize the issues and establish scenarios and best practices that address the concerns of the Systems Engineering, Deciding, and Engineering communities.
January 2016

5. Strategy
Strategy: “What we are attempting to accomplish in our mission.”
Meet Bi-Weekly via Webinars
Post Commentary to Wiki Monthly
Hold a Panel at IS2016
Publish a ConOps by IS2016
Publish Papers within and without the Activity Team
Present to Peers
January 2016

6. Tactics Tactics: “How we are going to accomplish our mission goals.”
Provide a forum for collaborative discussion of model management issues
Elicit recurring concepts and concerns from the community
Curate the Observations
Generalize Conclusions
Publish Advice
Draw Persuasive Visualizations of Recommended Solutions
January 2016

7. Published Products
[2014] Whitepaper “Model Lifecycle Management for MBSE”, Fisher et al

8. 2016 IW Outcomes
Team Fortification
Completion of Preparation for the IS 2016 Panel on MLM
Draft more MLM-System Concept of Operations
Draft Agenda for IS 2016 MLM Activity Team activities

9. Wiki Pages (http://www.omgwiki.org/MBSE/doku.php?id=mbse:modelmgt)
Planned Work
Wiki Pages (
Capabilities
Qualitative Analysis
Stakeholders
Operational Analysis
Difficult Questions
Modeled Systems