This paper describes ten steps to applying Model Driven Development (MDD) to your design process and shows that the process is neither alien to current thinking, nor impossibly expensive to implement.

MDD is more than just a good idea. It actually helps improve productivity in the design process. It makes it possible to use models all the way down the flow, automatically generating parts of the design and thus improving the design’s quality by bringing in repeatability and standards compliance. It enables actions such as eliminating physical prototypes from the process, by instead simulating digital and analog elements working together and with the control software operating the system. It can also eliminate or significantly reduce the paper trail. MDD has had a hard time achieving widespread adoption and respect as the most effective way to drive a design process.