A Case Study in the Design and Deployment of a Process System for a Large Aerospace Operation 
Jerry Berntsen
Senior Staff Engineer
Honeywell Aerospace Software CoE

Introduction:

The Honeywell Aerospace Engineering Software Center of Excellence (SWCOE) is responsible for the definition and deployment of software development processes and software productivity improvements across the Honeywell Aerospace engineering organization.   In 2006, the SWCOE was tasked with designing, developing, and deploying a new software development process (the Software Process System) that could be effectively tailored for use in developing software across the board diversity of software product types and software development missions across Honeywell Aerospace. To accomplish this lofty goal, the SWCOE decided to apply a robust system design methodology and to leverage state-of-the-art process modeling and authoring methodologies that exist in the industry. This presentation will discuss the system design methodology that was utilized, some of the key process design decisions, and the resulting software development process system.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the key requirements for an organizational process system
• Understand the application of a robust system design methodology to develop a process system
• Understand the application of industry standards and off-the-shelf applications to develop a process system
• Understand some of the key design decisions related to an organizational process system

Outline:

• Introduction
  • The Honeywell Aerospace Engineering SWCOE ( Software Center of Excellence)
  • Software Product Development within Honeywell Aerospace
• The Honeywell Aerospace Software Process and Common Language Initiative
• Background
• Initiative Goals and Objectives
• Initiative Timeline for design, development, and deployment
• The Software Process System (SPS)
• Use of a System design methodology
• Key requirements of the process system
• SPS Delivery System functions
• Key design decisions
• Configurability of the SPS
• The Future of the Software Process System (SPS)
• Deployment across Aerospace software engineering
• Migration of the SPS solution to all Aerospace engineering domains

Biography:

Jerry Berntsen holds Honeywell Six Sigma certifications for both Black Belt and Lean Expert. He has worked in the field of software development for 26 years with Honeywell. During the past year, Jerry has been the Lead Engineer for the development of the Honeywell Aerospace Software Process and Common Language (SPCL) project. During the last six years, Jerry has applied lean principles to software development processes within the Honeywell Aerospace organization.