ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the use of GroupSystems in the army across more than a twenty year period. The significant use of GroupSystems within the army came when the approach was used to support the Program Manager Installation Support Modules (PM ISM). Colonel (COL) Wayne Bird as PM ISM was charged with developing common application modules to be used at all army installations around the world. GroupSystems provided Department of Defense (DoD) with the same type of productivity improvements seen by PM ISM. The DoD was trying to accomplish on a department wide level the same type of requirement analysis that COL Bird had done for the army at the installation level. General Gordon Sullivan, Chief of Staff of the army, initiated a project called the Louisiana Maneuvers (LAM). LAM was named after a series of field exercises the army held in Louisiana when the Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall became alarmed by Nazi Germany's Blitzkrieg victory in France.
