The document presents a webinar on performing model-based reviews (MBR), highlighting its advantages such as simplifying the review process, enabling in-process reviews, and providing traceability throughout the project lifecycle. It details the steps involved in conducting MBR, including criteria capture, documenting processes, and using digital tools for collaboration and feedback. Ultimately, the MBR approach aims to reduce review time and costs while enhancing overall quality and accessibility of review results.

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How to Perform Model-Based
Reviews
STEVEN H. DAM, PH.D., ESEP
MARCH 28, 2019

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Asks Us Questions
Ask Us Your Questions
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• This presentation is being
recorded and will be made
available to you.
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Meet Your Host
• President and Founder of SPEC
Innovations
• Participated in the development of
C4ISR and the DoDAF
• Expert Systems Engineering
Professionals Certificate
• steven.dam@specinnovations.com
• @stevenhdam
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Agenda
• What is a Model-Based Review (MBR)?
• Why MBR?
• Capture the Criteria
• Add the Document Content
• Review the Models
• Cross Project Collaboration/Redaction
• Adding Artifact Workflow
• Collaboration
• Live Demo
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What is a Model-Based Review?
• To develop documentation in a human-readable form that enables
linkages directly to the live diagrams and other aspects of the
database
• an interactive medium for reviews as well as development of the
design information
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Why MBR?
• Simplifies the review process significantly
• Enables more of an “in-process review” approach
• Provides traceability through the lifecycle
• Pathway to Digital Engineering
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Capture the Criteria
• identifying the review criteria used by the customer
• copying the document names shown and copying them to a MS
Word document or directly into Innoslate’s Import Analyzer
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Import Analyzer
• Create your digital
document
o Requirements document
o Test plans
o CONOPS
o And more
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Add Additional Documentation
• Add the specific documents that
must be created to meet the
criteria
• Use bolding, italics, underline,
subscripts, and superscripts, as
well as adding tables and other
information
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Use Modeling Functionality
• The OV-1 is an asset diagram
from Innoslate
• establish a hyperlink
between the image and the
diagram by using the URL of
the diagram
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Full Digital Traceability
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• The real benefit comes from being able to link between these
Statements and other aspects of the database, including Risk and
Decision entities.

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Baseline Your Documentation
• track any changes between
the original pre-MS-A
document and post
• Note that this action cannot
be undone, as organizations
will use this as part of a legal
process to ensure its
integrity
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Reviewing the Models
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Provide Access to the Reviewers
• We recommend sharing the project as “read only” with reviewers
• Reviewers can navigate the models and post comments in the
diagram views or directly in the individual entity views
• Reviewers can also use the chat functionality
• You can always un-share with people who you don’t want to have
access to the database
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Cross Project Collaboration
• CPC allows for
redacted views
• Hide propriety or even
classified information
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Quick Review Process
• Developers can
receive and respond
instantly
• Develop an
interaction between
the review team
and the developers
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Create a Comment Summary
• Database View > Comment Report.
• The output of that report is a tabbed spreadsheet with all the
entities, their descriptions, and comments
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Not only are the comments and answers in one simple place, but it is also accessible directly in the database as well.

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Adding Artifact Workflow
• We want to
control the
approval cycle of
the document at
the Artifact level,
rather than
requirement by
requirement
• Create this model
using the State
Machine Diagram
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Edit the Schema
• Add a Status attribute to the Artifact class
o Schema Editor>Artifact class>Add Property
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Add the Transitions
• Workflow>Add Transitions
• We will identify
o who we want to be able to make the transition from one state to another
(Permissions)
o who is to be notified when such a transition occurs
o if we want to lock the entity after the transition
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Complete Configuration Control
• If you make the changes
to the Status of the
Artifact of interest in
conjunction with
baselining the Artifact in
Document View, then you
can have complete
configuration control
over your review
documentation
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Live Demo

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Summary
• Taking this approach to reviews will reduce the time and cost of
reviews and increase the quality of the results of the reviews
• The results of all the previous reviews will be accessible to
everyone who needs access
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Questions and Answers
PLEASE USE THE PANEL ON THE LEFT TO
SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS.
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What?
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When?
Tuesday, June 6th at 11:00 am EDT
Where?
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