What is "Boeing Agile Software Process?" [closed]

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I was surfing the web, and I came across the term "Boeing Agile Software Process," but I was unable to find a definition or any details. Presumably, this is the software process used at Boeing and it's Agile, but could anyone explain what the Boeing Agile Software process is/was?

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You can read the first several pages of the paper:

"A Tail of Two Projects: How 'Agile' Methods Succeeded After 'Traditional' Methods Had Failed in a Critical System-Development Project"

that Robert Bedoll wrote about agile methods at Boeing and published for XP/Agile Universe 2003 here, on Google Books. Here's a summary:

We adopted the following principles:

• Rapid prototyping of designs, with immediate customer feedback
• Continuous involvement of the customer Weekly production releases:
  Follow our standard development cycle (requirements - design – code – test - release) but compress it from formal releases every three months to formal releases every week.
• Start simple and keep it simple
• Evolve the tool to follow the evolving business process
• Provide a one to three week cycle time for new feature introduction
• Maintain a small development team
• Produce abbreviated versions of our standard design documents.Let the prototyping drive the design documentation.
• Retain our SEI (Software Engineering Institute) Level 2 rating.

It looks like there's a draft "not yet been formally approved by Boeing for publication" in .doc format here, that explains the principles in more detail. I'm not not a lawyer and don't know if there are legal implications if one were to read that draft. You can buy the whole published paper as a .pdf here and probably other places.