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Foreword
One of the biggest sources of pain in system development is “system integration and test.” is
is frequently where projects sailing along with all-green progress reports and Earned Value
Management System status summaries start to see these indicators increasingly turn to yellow
and then to red. Projects that were thought to be 80 percent complete may be found to still have
another 120 percent to go, increasing the relative costs of integration and test from 20 percent of
the total to 120/200 = 60 percent of the total.
Managers often look at this 60 percent figure and say, “We need to find a way to speed up
integration and tes ...