| USC Center for Software Engineering
Los Angeles
*** Note Irregular Week ***
Wednesday, September
3, 2003 from 5:30 to 8:30 P.M.
"Processes
for COTS-Based Systems"
Speaker: Tricia
Oberndorf, SEI |
LA ACM
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Abstract
The development and maintenance
of software systems composed largely of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products
is significantly different from creating software systems from scratch.
Too many people approach a COTS-based system project as though the same
processes they have used for traditional system development will continue to
work and that the only difference is that they’ll just “get the implementations
from the marketplace” rather than building them.
This misconception has led many projects into disastrous results. There is a tremendous need for the articulation
of a process that can be used to achieve success with the creation of COTS-based
systems. This presentation reveals the
framework for such a process, called the Assembly/Acquisition Process for COTS-based
Systems (A/APCS, pronounced “apex”), that has resulted from extensive work with
real programs, mostly in the DoD. The presentation includes a high-level view
of the overall process framework as well as detailed views of the parts of the
highest level and its more detailed realization as the Evolutionary Process
for Integrating COTS-based systems (EPIC).
Tricia Oberndorf
Tricia Oberndorf is a
Senior Member of the SEI Technical Staff. She
participates in the COTS-Based Systems Initiative, concentrating on the use
of COTS products and the investigation of acquisition, management, and open
system issues. She is co-author of “Managing
Software Acquisition: Open Systems and COTS Products.” She was a principal in the development of a
framework for necessary COTS-based systems activities. Much of her career was spent investigating
integration and open systems questions in the context of computer-aided software
engineering environments. Before coming
to the SEI, she was with the Navy for over 19 years.
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Location: University of Southern
California - Information Sciences Institute
11th
Floor Conference Room, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina Del Rey, CA
| 5:30 to 6:00 Networking -snacks |
7:00 to 7:30 Networking - snacks |
| 6:00 to 7:00 Presentation |
7:30 to 8:30 Presentation cont’d |
LaDonna Pierce, CSE Administrator, at (213)
740-5703 or ladonna@sunset.usc.edu
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