The talk will focus on a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II effort that is developing product line and supplier management practices for insertion into the processes that organizations are using to develop/acquire software and systems. These practices are becoming increasingly important as organizations try to figure out how to implement changes to their business practices that have been fostered by the increased use of COTS, outsourcing and open systems.

This SBIR's aim is to make product line, architecture and software reuse concepts a natural part of the processes organizations like yours use to develop systems and software according to the Systems, Software and Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Models (SE-CMM, SW-CMM and SA-CMM). The talk will start by providing background on the SBIR effort, its motivation and what it has accomplished to date. It will then summarize its Phase I findings, conclusions and recommendations and its Phase II plans. Finally, the talk will describe the best processes/practices that RCI is developing based upon these results and inputs from a market survey and six recently completed process assessments. The talk will conclude with a stimulating question and answer session.

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