Objectstream offers a broad range of design and IT-related services, including application development and maintenance, software development consultancy, project management, and business consulting. Our highly skilled software development professionals helped the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with a most challenging development initiative to increase software process maturity.

• Managing and maintaining large and complex systems
• Meeting mission critical needs with zero fault tolerance
• Managing scope and change
• Ability to minimize risk
• Cultivating a repeatable and predictable way of working that spans all aspects of the software development lifecycle
• Maintaining a disciplined yet flexible approach to software development while also maintaining a high level of quality
• Detecting inconsistencies in requirements, designs, and implementations

Objectstream helped lead the intiative as FAA adopted the Rational Unified Process (RUP) as a prescriptive software engineering process aimed to guide their software development improvement initiative. Through tailoring or extending RUP, the FAA could best match its specific needs. The RUP provided a solid solution to the FAA due to its ability to capture software development best practices in a form suitable for a wide range of projects and organizations:

• Develop software iteratively
• Manage requirements
• Use component-based architecture
• Visually model software
• Control changes to software

Objectstream played a pivotal role in helping FAA successfully implement RUP with tangible results like accomplishing a larger volume of work across shorter timeframes and with greater momentum. Due to a skillfully tailored RUP implementation spearheaded by Objectstream staff, FAA continues to meet milestone objectives. Customer-centric focus and collaboration across teams are high without marginalizing any particular sector. In addition to remaining consistently on schedule and under budget, FAA cites improved quality, risk management, uniformity, and predictability as key benefits of implementing the RUP.