Author: Joe Mainardi

Telephone: (520) 794-5935

Email: jdmainardi@west.raytheon.com

Mail: PO Box 11337, Bldg 810, M/S 1, Tucson, AZ 85734-1337

Organization: Electronic Systems – Tucson

As part of the Raytheon Six Sigma goal of process improvement, the Affordable Multi-Missile Manufacturing (AM³) program’s Rapid Product Development (RPD) section contains a goal of modular/reusable software. In order to satisfy that vision, the Tucson Software Center is in the process of developing a strategy to integrate the aforementioned goal into their concept evaluation, demonstration/validation and similar programs. In a white paper produced by the author, an evaluation of an RPD-based program outlined the beginning steps to reach that goal. This presentation will focus on the Software Development Plan (SDP) development and Software Center metrics collection criteria necessary to assist future software programs in achieving the AM³ goal of modular/reusable software. This work is in the beginning stages, and has not yet made any significant innovations, nor are there any concrete project plans/roadmaps. In addition, the funding of any future work will need to come from non-project specific budgets within the Tucson Software Center. The relationship with the theme of PTSN 2000 is that the facilitation of modular/reusable software in RPD programs will be made easier if there is a solid foundation of software development and metrics gathering processes in place for each RPD program.

Joe Mainardi is a Senior Engineer, with more than sixteen years of software development experience, including one year at Raytheon. He has served as the Software Project Manager for the Excalibur (guided projectile) program, assisted in the development of standard procedures to be used throughout the Raytheon Software Center, and is currently involved in proposal development. Joe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Computer Science from UC Irvine, and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from West Coast University. He is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). His technical interests include continuous improvement through proven software project management techniques and data mining.