Design process error-proofing: Benchmarking the NASA development life-cycle

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 4327-4338

  Chao, Lawrence P ^a   Tumer, Irem ^b   Ishii, Kosuke ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Design review; Error proofing; Life cycle; NASA

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; LIFE CYCLE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

DESIGN REVIEW; ERROR PROOFING; PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33751535782     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2005.1559738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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