Organization

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. DoD standard defining software development lifecycle requirements for defense systems.

Why this matters

DOD-STD-2167A is sediment of waterfall accountability—formal process as moral substitute in coupling.

Focus in observatory

Works

standard

Defense System Software Development

U.S. Department of Defense. DOD-STD-2167A, *Defense System Software Development*. 1988.

Related books

Book

Coupling

Cohesion, Consequence, and the Architecture of Responsibility

A practical framework for seeing where systems are tightly joined, where they drift apart, and how those coupling choices shape accountability over time.