Have the 1990´s changed the “software surgical team”?

Author

Robb, John H.

Author_Institution

Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Syst., Fort Worth, TX, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

26-30 Oct 1997

Firstpage

1.2

Abstract

Have the 1990´s changed the “software surgical team”? Frederick Brooks proposed the idea of the “software surgical team”; a team organized to quickly respond to the dynamic environment of software development. The software surgical team was also scaleable to large development efforts, making it an organizational concept for any sized software effort. Software development in the 1990´s is different from the IBM 360 era; the 1990´s are characterized by powerful software engineering environments, advanced workstations, and more rigorous processes. Does the software surgical team concept still apply? The results are surprising! We´ll look at our experiences from one of the major military software development efforts of the 1990´s

Keywords

military computing; software development management; military software; organizational concept; rigorous processes; software development; software engineering environments; software surgical team; Aircraft; Computer crashes; Meeting planning; Monitoring; Personnel; Programming; Relays; Software engineering; Surgery; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1997. 16th DASC., AIAA/IEEE

Conference_Location

Irvine, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4150-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.1997.635013

Filename

635013