by Carla E.
In 1982, my second year at Lockheed, I joined a team that was
building a logical model of the entire FBM program. This itself was a ground-breaking
activity.
But when we finished, it was all pen on paper. How on earth could
we publish drawings when no one had yet invented PowerPoint? We didn't even
have a rudimentary word processer in those days.
My first year here I spent supporting the FBM engineering
designers who used CADAM, the Lockheed-created automated design tool. So when
it was time to publish our 550 models of the FBM business, I suggested we get
funding for a team of engineers to come in on two weekends and use CADAM to
draw our models. Then we could print them out on paper and bind them into a
book.
We did just that. My lead presented a copy of our book to the
IBM scientist who organized GUIDE, the international conference on data
relationships. He pronounced it 'elegant'. I was thrilled to have played a part
in pushing the envelope on two different fronts: building the entity model and
figuring out how to publish it.
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