Customer Challenge
A major customer needed to scale their engineering team quickly to work on Fly-by-Wire (FBW) systems, replacing conventional manual flight controls with electronic interfaces. They required a significant ramp-up of V&V engineers for their embedded flight control computer software but couldn’t achieve this on their own.
Scope
- Develop a Fly-by-Wire system to replace conventional flight controls
- Rapidly expand the engineering team working on embedded flight control computer software
- Ramp up V&V Engineers to support the existing process
Solution
- 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.
Benefits
- Successfully navigated the complete software development lifecycle for embedded flight control computer software.
- Within a dynamic six-month period, the team flourished from 18 to 50 members, strategically consolidating to 45.
- Emerged as the premier and largest supplier for the program, eventually backfilling key roles that were once held by competitors.
Results
- Rapid team expansion and efficient resource management
- Successful delivery of V&V efforts and embedded flight control software
- Enhanced customer satisfaction with agile response and resource scalability
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