You look upon the multitude of loose notes, notebooks, electronic documents, digital spreadsheets either piling on your desk or scattered among your hard drive and you think, there must be a better way. Model Based Systems Engineering, at its essence, is built on a coherent source of truth from which you can slice and dice all you want but the truth remains. Why not apply the MBSE approach not only to Systems, those man-made things of steel, electrons and bytes, but to Knowledge itself?

There are many Books of Knowledge out there including the Project Management BOK (PMBOK), Systems Engineering BOK (SEBOK) and the biggest of them all, Wikipedia, however they have some fundamental deficiencies not because of their content but because architecture:

1. Change management and propagation in a networked document is difficult
2. Inevitable inconsistencies between terms and definition (e.g. processes, frameworks, methods)

At Fitzgerald Systems applied systems thinking is at the core of what we do. That's why we are using a model approach to develop a repository for knowledge that is augmented by the different BOK out there and, where these external resources fall short, by this wiki you are now reading. That repository is 'captured' in periodically automatic generated HTMLs which can be viewed here.