Fly-by-wire (FBW)

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.

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.

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.

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