PRELIMINARY AGENDA

USC-CSE Executive Workshop on Rapid Application Development (RAD)

Davidson Conference Center, USC Campus

Wednesday, March 11, 1998

 

 

Last June, we had a technical Focused Workshop on RAD, which confirmed its high level of importance for our Affiliate organizations. The workshop identified a number of technical opportunity areas to improve RAD such as reuse, architecture, process models, and estimation models; we are addressing these in our USC-CSE research program. In addition, though, a number of RAD critical success factors were identified as upper management issues, such as up-front investments in RAD enablers, staff motivation and incentives, and approaches for achieving RAD without compromising quality. The executive-level Affiliate panelists indicated below will initiate discussion of these and related issues, Asterisks indicate panelists who are invited but not yet confirmed.

 

 

7:30 - 8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

8:15 - 8:30 am

Welcome: Leonard Silverman, USC Dean of Engineering

8:30 - 10:00 am

USC-CSE RAD Perspectives:

 

Barry Boehm—RAD Opportunity Tree Perspectives

 

Dave Wile—Architecture Technology for RAD

 

Dan Port—RAD in Small Organizations

10:00 - 10:30 am

Break

10:30 - 12:00 pm

RAD and Government Software Acquisition:

 

Walt Scacchi, Chair

 

Invited Panelists: Steve Cross, SEI; Gary Hafen, Lockheed Martin; Tony Jordano, SAIC; *Terry Snyder, Hughes/Raytheon

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 pm

RAD and Commercial Software Development:

 

Larry Bernstein, Chair

 

Invited Panelists: Dennis Weiss, Lucent; *Don Andres, TRW, Arnold Pittler, Motorola; *Marie Silverthorn, TI; *Mike Sweeney, EDS

2:30 - 3:00 pm

Break

3:00 - 4:00 pm

RAD Technology Accelerators:

 

Barry Boehm, Chair

 

Invited Panelists: John McRary, MCC; Rami Razouk, Aerospace; Tony Wasserman, Software Methods & Tools; TBD, Sun