Project Management Using Hypermedia CASE Tools

This paper describes our experience in using a multimedia project management and software engineering environment, Decision-based Hyper-multimedia CASE (DHC), to support the Low-Visibility Landing and Surface Operations (LVLASO) project at the NASA Langley Research Center. The purpose of the LVLASO project is to allow pilots to land and taxi airplanes when visibility is impeded due to adverse weather conditions. NASA is supporting this effort by developing new software and hardware for use on the flight deck. We are utilizing DHC to capture the decisions and documents generated during this project''s life cycle. DHC supports a new Decision-based Systems Development paradigm, which allows the organization of the project by the decisions which shape the end-products and associated documents. The experiences summarized in this paper demonstrate the value of a hyperlinked multimedia project space in developing large, group collaborative projects.