Personnel considered to be experts in requirements engineering and related areas.
Boehm, Barry - Currently the TRW Professor of Software Engineering, Computer Science Department Director, USC Center for Software Engineering. His current research interests include software process modeling, software requirements engineering, software architectures, software metrics
and cost models, software engineering environments, and knowledge-based software engineering. His contributions to the field include the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO), the Spiral Model of the
software process, the Theory W (win-win) approach to software management and requirements determination.
Clements, Paul C - Dr. Clements worked for the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. There, he participated in (and eventually led) the Software Cost Reduction or "A-7" project. SCR produced and validated a methodology for hard-real-time embedded software development for systems with long life-cycles by re-designing and re-implementing the avionics software for the Navys A-7E aircraft. SCR pioneered techniques in modular software design, requirements engineering and specification, software architecture and architectural structures, interface specification and documentation, and real-time performance engineering. He currently works for the SEI at CMU.
Ellen Gottesdiener - Ellen Gottesdiener, Principal of EBG Consulting, Inc., is a consultant, facilitator and trainer helping people to ollaboratively capture and verify business, user and technical requirements. Ellen is an expert in using facilitated workshops for software development
projects. She is a pioneer in business rule-driven requirements workshops. As an independent consultant, she works with project teams to help them explore requirements, shape their development processes and collaboratively plan their work. Ellen presents seminars on requirements, facilitated workshops and peer reviews. She is a frequent speaker at numerous industry conferences and has authored numerous papers on requirements, workshops, methods and modeling. Her book "Requirements by Collaboration" is available from Addison Wesley. Ellen can be reached at ellen@ebgconsulting.com or through her web site, http://www.ebgconsulting.com.
Reifer, Donald J. - Mr. Reifer has over 30 years of progressive experience in both industry and government. Recently, Mr. Reifer managed the DoD Software Initiatives Office under an Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignment with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). As part of this assignment, he also served as the Director of the DoD Software Reuse Initiative and Chief of the Ada Joint Program Office. Mr. Reifer's areas of expertise include
software reuse, Ada, software testing, Cost estimation (COCOMO), and software acquisition.
Royce, Walker - Walker Royce is the vice president of IBM Worldwide Rational Lab Services. He joined Rational in 1994 and served as vice president of professional services from 1997 through the IBM acquisition in 2003. Over the past ten years, he has managed large software engineering projects, consulted with a broad spectrum of IBM Rational clients worldwide, and developed a software management approach based on an iterative development and delivery lifecycle, industry best practices, and architecture-first priorities.
Wiegers, Karl - Karl E. Wiegers is Principal Consultant with Process Impact in Portland, Oregon. He has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software development, management and process improvement. Prior to starting Process Impact in 1997, Karl spent 18 years at Eastman Kodak Company. His responsibilities there included experience as a photographic research scientist, software applications developer, software manager, and software process and quality improvement leader. Karl has led process improvement activities in small application development groups, Kodak's Internet development group, and a division of 500 software engineers developing embedded and host-based digital imaging software products.
Karl is the author of the following books:
Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Microsoft Press, 2007)
More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice (Microsoft Press, 2006)
Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
Creating a Software Engineering Culture (Dorset House Publishing, 1996)
Karl has also written more than 170 articles on many aspects of software, chemistry, and military history. He has served on the Editorial Board of IEEE Software and as a Contributing Editor for Software Development magazine.
Young, Ralph - Young is Director of Engineering Process Improvement in Defense Enterprise Solutions (DES) at Northrop Grumman Information Technology (IT), a leading provider of information technology and systems-based solutions. DES is a Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) Level 5 organization. Dr. Young was a member of the CMMI Level 5 SCAMPI (Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement) Team, and is an avid reader of industry literature. He leads the DES Requirements Working Group of over 50 requirements engineers. He teaches the 10-hour "Requirements Course for Practitioners" and consults frequently about both requirements engineering and process improvement for DES' internal and external customers. Dr. Young offers a commercially-available "Effective Requirements Practices Workshop" to assist organizations and enable organizational improvement.
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