System development corporation: a U.S. Factory experiment1
Michael A. Cusumano · 1991
Abstract System Development Corporation ‘s (SOC) attempt in the mid-1970s to establish a software factory proved significant for several reasons. First, this provided the first case in the United States of a company explicitly adopting a factory label and strategy for a software facility. Second, SOC committed several years of research and experimentation in search of tools, methods, and organizational concepts aimed at achieving in soft ware the kind of efficiencies found in factory assembly lines, systematically moving products through design, construction, and testing.