Title
Using structured benchmarking to fast-track CMM process improvement
Abstract
Sikorsky Aircraft designs and manufactures helicopters. In today's environment of glass cockpits, fly-by-wire control systems, and special missions, we are also in the integration business-which, from this article's perspective, translates into embedded software. We develop large systems in-house, such as the Comanche Mission Equipment Package, comprising hundreds of thousands of lines of code, and we are deeply involved in enhancing large legacy systems for our Black Hawk and Seahawk platforms. Sikorsky Aircraft in pursuit of a Capability Maturity Model rating, determined that software benchmarking would help its process improvement and assessment effort. The article describes how Sikorsky prepared for benchmarking trips, structured its questionnaire, aggregated results and evaluated lessons learned
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1109/52.951494
Software, IEEE
Keywords
Field
DocType
aerospace computing,aerospace industry,embedded systems,helicopters,software performance evaluation,software process improvement,CMM,Capability Maturity Model,Comanche Mission Equipment Package,Sikorsky Aircraft,embedded software,helicopter manufacturing,legacy systems,software benchmarking,software process improvement,structured benchmarking
Software Engineering Process Group,Avionics software,Personal software process,Systems engineering,Software engineering,Computer science,Package development process,Software system,Benchmarking,Software development,Software sizing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
5
0740-7459
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.94
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gareth C. Thomas170.94
Howard R. Smith270.94