Practical Software Measurement --
A Guide to Objective Program Insight
* Friday, February 19, 1999 * (3rd Friday)
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
McDonnell Douglas Auditorium
University of California, Irvine
There is a $15.00 charge for non-sponsors.
Checks should be made payable to UC Regents.
No reservations required.
Featured Speaker: Leia White, Senior Process Improvement
Engineer,
Software Productivity Consortium (SPC),
white@software.org
This presentation describes the Practical Software Measurement (PSM)
approach. PSM is sponsored by the Office of Undersecretary of Defense
for Acquisition & Technology (OUSD A&T). The goal of the project is to
provide program managers with the objective information needed to
successfully meet cost, schedule, and technical objectives.
The PSM process
- is based on actual software measurement experience on DoD, Government,
and industry programs
- treats measurement as a flexible process not a pre-defined list of
graphs or reports
- integrates the measurement requirements into the developers process
- defines an issue-driven analysis approach which helps the program
manager make informed decisions
- supports the current software acquisition and measurement
policy and provides a basis for enterprise level software measurement.
The PSM team produced and deployed a guidebook, training, tools,
workshops, and a cooperative transition approach that is currently
being used by DoD, Government and industry.
Biography:
Leia White joined the Software Productivity Consortium (SPC) in
November 1998. Previously, she has worked for Logicon Advanced
Technology, Aerojet ElectroSystems and was a co-founder and a
principal of the Computing Experience Corporation (CEC). She is a
Senior Process Improvement Engineer specializing in assessments,
process definition and improvement, technology transition and
organization management. Her career covers more than 20 years of
experience as a software project team leader, software engineer,
lecturer, consultant, and system developer. She is a voting member
of the Software Engineering Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society.
Coordinator: Leitha Purcell, Project Manager, Software Process Improvement Inititative,
Northrop Grumman Corporation,
purcele@mail.northgrum.com
UCI Maps and Directions to meeting are available.
Next Meeting:
Date: Friday, March 26, 1999
Topic:
Successes in Achieving High SEI Maturity Levels
Speakers: Pete Puchalski and Linda A. Abelson, The Boeing Company
Leitha Purcell, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Coordinator: Karen Chan, The Boeing Company, karen.chan@west.boeing.com
The Irvine Research Unit in Software wishes to thank its
corporate sponsors:
Sustaining:
The Boeing Company * IBM * Microsoft Corporation * Northrop Grumman Corporation
Raytheon Company * Sun Microsystems Laboratories * TRW
Supporting:
Beckman Coulter * FileNet Corporation * Printronix, Inc.*
Continuus Software Corporation * Hewlett Packard
For further information on
SPIN or
IRUS,
contact Debra Brodbeck
at (949) 824-2260,
brodbeck@ics.uci.edu
Irvine Research Unit in Software
Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3425