A second look at Faster, Better, Cheaper

  • Authors:
  • Oussama El-Rawas;Tim Menzies

  • Affiliations:
  • LCSEE Department, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA;LCSEE Department, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

  • Venue:
  • Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

"Faster, Better, Cheaper" (FBC) was a systems development methodology used by NASA in the 1990s. While usually a deprecated practice, we find that, with certain caveats, it is a viable approach. To determine this we utilized a stochastic AI tool to determine the behavior of FBC for several case studies. In these case studies we compare results of using FBC with that of other optimization policies. In our tests, FBC is as advantageous a policy to use with projects as other policies, while avoiding their apparent downfalls.