MBSE Omega Guide

TeamStorming February 2015

The working group held a "TeamStorming" session during the February 2015 meeting in order to explore the question "What should the new omega guide be about?" The outputs from that session can be found below:

• Omega Guide – TeamStorming Overview
• Omega Guide – User Empathy Map
• Omega Guide – Reviewer ensures appropriate Content scenario
• Omega Guide – Author delivering Practical Guidance Scenario
• Omega Guide – Practical Guidance to User Scenario
• Omega Guide – Publihser delivering Value Scenario

A summary of these outputs, for convenience, is shown below:

Item	Content summary	Relevance to Guide content
TeamStorming Overview	16 pp, mostly photos of what should guide be about (concept map), empathy analysis (hearing, seeing, feeling, seeing) for stakeholders (author, publisher, reviewer, user); storyboards.	yes, at meta-level: content must address scope and objectives, must be usable, inform audience, give practical guidance to deliver value.
User Empathy Map	2 pp	Yes, in some aspects: real-world examples, links to other info/help. Otherwise it is a useful list of characteristics that content should exhibit.
Reviewer ensures appropriate Content scenario	4 pp, reviewer storyboard, beaver / monkey analysis	blah.
Author delivering Practical Guidance Scenario	1 table, 2 figs, author storyboard	blah.
Practical Guidance to User Scenario	1 table, user scenario, spanners and responses to combat spanners.	blah.
Publihser (sic) delivering Value Scenario	storyboard, beavers and spanners	blah.

Status Reports

• 23-06-15

Work in Progress on the 6 question format

Note to reader: This introduced section is an exploration by Julian Johnson of the use of the UK Wiki to elaborate an Omega Guide (aka 'how to do MBSE'), as a complement to the discussions on the MBSE.org Forum.

For more content see the Omega WIP page

Using wiki in support of Omega Guide development

Useful tips for those new to use of a wiki are available in wiki for Omega Guide development.