Software Factories in the USA.
BARRY W. BOEHM · IFIP Congress · 1989
Software factory technology and practice -In the USA has recently accelerated rapidly with the boom in the CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) market. Concerns about long-range international competitiveness caused most large USA corporations to focus on corporate restructuring to achieve leaner, more adaptive modes of operation. Concerns with Federal deficits caused similar pressures on USA Government organizations. In the data processing area, this frequently led to. downstaffing and attempts to more effectively capitalize software development and maintenance via personal workstations, improved practices and procedures, and CASE tools. This short survey provides a summary of the primary elements of the USA software factory situation in 1989, and a representative set of software factory lessons learned at TRW.