From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f849b,5aa763fe62c20184 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5aa763fe62c20184 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,5aa763fe62c20184 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public From: Jerry Petrey Subject: Re: Pratt & Whitney's Embedded Software - CMM Level 3! Date: 1999/04/20 Message-ID: <371CEE41.5B94AFF8@hercii.mar.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 468877986 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <371B6EC8.36B9C247@pwfl.com> <7fftel$6po@drn.newsguy.com> <371B9A5E.2804AC27@pwfl.com> <7fi9p5$vd7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371CBE96.21277C8A@pwfl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Lockheed Martin Corporation Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime,comp.arch.embedded Date: 1999-04-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > > dennison@telepath.com wrote: > > > > Last I heard they (now part of LMC) were at level 4, shooting for 5. > > > LockMart is shooting for a Level 5? What is it that they are making at > that particular chunk of LockMart? > > There has often been debate on the economics of shooting for anything > above Level 3. There is some belief that 4 and 5 are interesting and > nice work if you can get it, but that money sunk into achieving it does > not translate into money returned on the bottom line. Of course, a lot > of that depends on the kind of software you are busy building, too. Not > all things worth doing are worth doing well. Fortunately for us, our > embedded software is similar enough from one project to the next that it > lends itself to process improvements more so than other types of work. > > -- > Marin David Condic Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems here in Marietta, GA has been at CMM Level 3 for some time and we are moving to Level 4 and working on plans to go to Level 5. I guess they consider it worthwhile. You are right though, it does cost a lot. Jerry -- ===================================================================== = Jerry Petrey - Consultant Software Engineer - Member Team Ada = = Lockheed Martin Member Team Forth = =====================================================================