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The presentation by Doug Whall will identify the key factors that affect the appropriateness of a software project manager's choice of new software development technologies. Software development technologies include the various methodologies and computer aided software engineering (CASE) tools that can be used on the manager's project. The presentation will outline the organizational, environmental, and project specific factors that influence the success (or more often the failure) of organizations' efforts to increase the productivity or quality of their software development efforts. The discussion will be based on a software development interdependencies model that organizations can use to ensure that all key factors influencing their decisions about new methods and tools are considered. The model can be used to estimate the productivity and quality impacts resulting from the introduction of selected new or modified software development methodologies and tools.
Doug Whall has been a senior member of the technical staff at TASC, Inc in Reston Va since 1993. He has been actively involved with several large software development projects that have been trying to introduce new software development methodologies and tools. For the six years prior to TASC, Doug was the managing consultant for the company that developed and sold the CASE tool "Software Through Pictures". In that capacity, Doug worked with over 200 projects that were adopting new methods and tools. Most of the projects were at fortune 500 firms such as AT∓T, Motorola, Bendix, etc. Doug is currently working on his Phd. dissertation at George Mason University. His dissertation research will evaluate and quantify the factors that lead large projects to success or failure in their efforts to modify their software development methods and tools. |