Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures

The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures (MFESA) is a method engineering framework based on situational method engineering, which provides a method for developing appropriate, project-specific system architecture engineering methods. It is primarily developed by Donald Firesmith and first published in 2008.^[1]

MFESA is a four-part method framework consisting of the MFESA:

• Ontology defining the key concepts of system architecture engineering and their relationships
• Metamodel defining the foundational abstract supertypes of method components for engineering system architectures including architectural:^[2]
  • Work products including architectures and architectural representations such as models and documents
  • Work units including activities, tasks, and techniques for producing the work products
  • Producers including system architects, architecture teams, and architecture tools that perform the work units to produce the work products
• Repository of free, open-source, reusable method components for creating situation-specific system architecture engineering methods
• Metamethod for creating situation-specific system architecture engineering methods by selecting appropriate method components from the repository, tailoring them as appropriate, and integrating them to form the new architecture engineering method

References

1. Donald Firesmith et al. (2008). The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures. ISBN 978-1-4200-8575-4
2. Kul Bhasin (2008). "Architecting Large Families of Space Systems and Networks". NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Retrieved August 13, 2012.

External links

• The OPEN Process Framework Repository Organization The MFESA tasks have been incorporated into the OPFRO repository of reusable method components.