Starting Scenario



MCIL is a well-established Level 3 organization, with a phased development process, institutionalized formal reviews, automated defect tracking, and a long history of pioneering state-of-the-art software tools and technologies.

In order to initiate the PIE, we selected a project from our Digital Radio development group as the baseline project, on which the PIE would run.
The project selected is TETRA - Trans European Trunked RAdio - a new all-European digital radio system which integrates, in a single subscriber unit, Cellular and Dispatch (two-way) communication, as well as short paging messages.

The project has more than one release and we used one for determining the reference line and a consecutive one to measure the improvements caused by the PIE.
Selecting a multi-generation project, with two releases, rather than two distinct projects, helped neutralize the effects of several important variables, which could have otherwise distorted the findings.
Thus we ensured commonality with respect to : development environment, application domain, work culture, working methods, engineering team and tools.
 

Starting scenario
Project description
 Plans & expected outcome