====== Difficult Questions ======
===== What do we mean by "Manage"? =====
===== How do Model Lifecycle Management and Model Lifecycle Management Differ? =====
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===== Objectively, How do we measure Effective Management? =====
===== We Know the Solutions, What are the Problems? =====
===== A Need for Collaborative Modeling Technologies =====
Like most modern engineering organizations, our Activity Team is geographically distributed, temporally distributed, work for independent companies, share only a best-effort public Internet for connectivity, and use a variety of modeling tools.

We need a solution for modeling that:

  * Has a high User Experience quotient. (I call this "fluidity", that is, it just works.)
  * Has a high Artistry quotient. (I call this "the pictures it draws look good".)
  * Offers one or more notations for Enterprise ("Business Motivation") and Systems Engineering
  * Offers change management.
  * Offers "composability" (I call this "an ability to divide a model into pieces, each of which can be evolved contemporaneously offline and can be merged together conveniently to form the unified model".)
  * Accesses information where it originates rather than requiring centralized migration and storage.
  * Is available to charitable organizations at no cost.
  * Plays in a heterogeneous modeling ecosystem.

In the absence of an ideal solution we pragmatically mashup what can be found.