THE CHALLENGE
GROW A TEAM OF ENGINEERS OVER SHORT TIME
The customer was looking for a partner:
- To work on Fly-by-wire (FBW) – a system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface.
- To grow a very large engineering team working on an embedded flight control computer software over a short period of time.
- They needed V&V Engineers to ramp up the existing process and the client couldn’t do this on their own.
SOLUTION PROVIDED
- EXB was asked to provide a Team Lead, a Manager and 8 V&V resources for the initial engagement. We grew these resources from 10 to 50.
- There was a major V&V effort that was delayed by client. Our agile response included swiftly onboarding extra resources to successfully fulfill the expanded V&V effort.
- Gave customer realistic engineer ramp-up plan and used EXB TPM’s relationship to remove their Interviews allowing us to pick our own teams and expedite hiring process.
FEATURES
- Full software development lifecycle
- HLR and LLRs – DOORS
- Development – Simulink/Stateflow
- System level test – Python
- Software level test – C/C++
- Flight Control Systems
- Flight Management Systems
- DO-178C
- Agile Scrum
VALUE PROVIDED
- We did full software development lifecycle for embedded flight control computer software.
- Grew team from 18 to 50 over 6 months, reduced to 45 six months after growth to 50.
- Became best & largest supplier on the program, and eventually backfilled some of our competitors’ roles.
- When the customer required additional support in the next phase, we were able to quickly ramp up a team of 12 engineers, with 80% of whom had experience on this project.