TRILLIUM Case Study: A Commercial Example of a Software Supplier Capability Assessment Model that Encourages Effective Software Reuse
This study, published in 1993, provides a commercial example in which software reuse was specifically gauged and
encouraged as a means to improve quality, timeliness and life-cycle cost. Funded by DoD, it provides an early example
of "dual use" as an acquisition strategy. Bell Canada's TRILLIUM, a pioneer integrated systems engineering process
capability maturity model, recommended software reuse practices that were based upon over ten years of successful
experience. Reuse was not isolated, but viewed as one of several activities, all of which are needed to ensure software
capability. Further, it provided evidence that suggested that TRILLIUM had been widely adopted by managers and
practitioners throughout Bell's supplier organizations (who had chosen to market TRILLIUM to their customers).
As such, this example appears to provide the right goals, long-term experience base and successful approach for
getting effective software reuse into practice.
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