PLATTEVILLE, Wis. – November 19, 2008 – Esterline AVISTA, the U.S. leader in critical systems software engineering services, has been invited to present at the second Workshop on CMMI High Maturity Measurement and Analysis. The event is presented by the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis (SEMA) team. SEI is a joint venture of Carnegie Mellon University and the Department of Defense to advanced software engineering principles and practices.

One of Esterline AVISTA's process improvement experts, Mark Kelley, is presenting a case study on the cost of quality. Quality is important in software development, and absolutely necessary with safety-critical software used in avionics, medical devices or military systems. The presentation explores the links between early project phase results and later phase results to understand the cost of quality and the impact of quality on a project timeline. By predicting that a project will require a specific number of engineering hours in later phases, teams can plan ahead to bring on more resources to help ensure the project stays on schedule, or adjust the processes to achieve the project objectives within the given budget. Presentation details follow:

WHO:                           Mark Kelley, Software Engineering Manager, Esterline AVISTA

WHAT:                         Cost of Quality: A Case Study on Process Improvement Models

WHEN:                         Friday, November 21, 2008

WHERE:                       Second Workshop on CMMI High Maturity Measurement and Analysis Hyatt Regency Tech Center, Denver, Colorado

About Esterline AVISTA

Esterline AVISTA (AVISTA Incorporated®), a subsidiary of Esterline Corporation, is a full-lifecycle software engineering services company specializing in critical systems software development projects for aerospace, defense and medical electronics applications. Esterline AVISTA fields the strongest, most stable, and most capable DO-178B software development team in the industry. The company has completed more than 1,000 client projects over the last 20 years in systems design, requirements capture and analysis, software design and implementation, and software verification and validation. Esterline AVISTA, headquartered in Platteville, Wisconsin, is a SEI CMMI Maturity Level 5 rated company and an ISO 9001:2000 certified company. http://www.avistainc.com