Hughes Aircraft's Widespread Deployment of a Continuously Improving Software Process

Abstract

This report describes the software improvement activities of Hughes Aircraft Company over the last 25 years. The focus is on continuous improvement of the software development process and the deployment of that process from a single organization at Fullerton, California, to virtually all the 5000 software engineers of Hughes Aircraft. For this achievement, the widespread deployment of a continuously improving software process, Hughes Aircraft was awarded the 1997 IEEE Computer Society Software Process Achievement Award.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA358993

Entities

People

  • J. F. Ryskowski
  • M. D. Scott
  • M. I. Johnson
  • R. M. Rova
  • R. R. Willis

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Climate Change
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Engineers
  • Information Systems
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Management Personnel
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Software Development
  • Software Metrics
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Software Engineering.