Scenarios
Following are two scenarios to consider. Our lawyers tell us that we have to include
the following statement: This is a work of the imagination depicting organizations
and events that have not happened. Any resemblance to actual companies or persons,
living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Scenario One: Merged Teams
Background: Road Runner Industries is a development organization with products
that contain both custom hardware and software. It mainly produces embedded
software for their primary products and some automatic test equipment software to
test the final product. It does a lot of what it considers to be systems engineering,
including the analysis of customer requirements, total systems design, and verification
and validation activities throughout the development and installation life cycle.
It has a large purchasing group that covers everything from buying paperclips to
buying aircraft to use as test platforms.
Existing Teams: Road Runner Industries has been doing process improvement
with the software CMM for over ten years and it has a classic Software Engineering
Process Group (SEPG) sponsored by the director of embedded software.
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