, is an
organization that produces major systems containing both custom hardware and
software and significant amounts of purchased hardware and software. It produces
a variety of custom software including embedded, information systems, and command
and control applications. It does a lot of what it considers to be systems
engineering including the analysis of systems requirements, specification writing
for components and subsystems, verification and validation activities, and product
integration. A group at corporate headquarters, over 900 miles away, performs most
purchasing activities.
Existing Teams: Wily Coyote Industries has been doing software engineering
process improvement with the CMM for Software for six years and has recently
been assessed at Level 4 against that model. It has a classic SEPG sponsored by the
director of engineering. The SEPG is responsible for all software processes, procedures,
and training. It started a systems engineering process improvement initiative
four years ago and formed a Process Improvement Group (PIG) sponsored by the
senior engineering scientist.
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