Towards Agile Model-based Systems Engineering

Engineering organisations following a traditional development process often suffer from under-specified requirements and from poor responsiveness to changes in those requirements during the course of a project. Furthermore, these organizations need to deliver highly dependable products and decrease time-tomarket. In the software engineering community, Agile methods have been proposed to address similar issues. Pilot projects that apply agile approaches in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) engineering have reported some success. This position paper studies the challenges faced when adopting an agile process to design CPS. These challenges are broken down into their essential components and solutions are proposed, both pertaining to model/simulation management and to processes.