Tuesday, October 23:

7:30 - 8:30 am
Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:30 - 10:00 am; 10:30 - 12:00 noon
Tutorial
Barry Boehm (USC):
· COCOMO II Update and Extensions

12:00 - 1:00 pm
Lunch

1:00 - 2:30; 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Software Metrics Tutorial
Brad Clark:
· Building Models from Your Software Data
· Albreit Gaffney FP Datatable
· SEL Data

5:00 - 8:00 pm
Affiliates' Dinner and Workshop Kickoff
· USC Faculty Center

Wednesday, October 24:

7:30 - 8:00 am
Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 9:45 am
Defect Reduction Modeling
Vic Basili & Mikael Lindvall (Fraunhofer Center, UMD):
· CeBASE Defect Reduction Workshop Results and Experience Base
Barry Boehm (USC):
· Models for Competing on Schedule, Cost, and Quality
Keun Lee (USC), Sunita Chulani (IBM):
· COQUALMO-ODC Update

10:15 - 11:45 am
System-Level Cost Modeling
Gary Thomas (Raytheon):
· COSYSMO Update
Peter Hantos (Xerox):
· Task-Unit Approach to Software Cost Estimation of Iterative Development
Cheryl Jones (US Army-PSM):
· Practical Software and System Metrics

11:45 - 12:45 pm
Lunch

12:45 - 2:15 pm
Management Applications
Betsy Clark (Software Metrics):
· Financial Applications Management and COCOMO II
Sunita Chulani (IBM):
·Customer Satisfaction Metrics and Models
Sergio Coronado (ETSI-Spain):
· A Software Project Management Method: A3
Dan Ligett (Softstar):
· Techniques for Calibrating Estimating Models

2:45 - 4:45 pm
Special-Issue Models
Chris Abts (USC):
· COCOTS Life Cycle Estimation
Cyrus Fakharzadeh (USC):
· CORADMO update
Lee Fischman, Mike Kimel (Galorath):
· Comparing SLOC to Function Points: Doing Away with Backfiring
Ed Colbert (USC):
· Why you should get a certificate in Software Engineering
Carolyn Suckow (USC):
· USC Certificate Program in Software Engineering

4:45 - 5:15 pm
Tool Previews

5:15 - 7:00 pm
Reception and Tools Fair
(Salvatori, 3rd floor)

Thursday, October 25:

7:30 - 8:00 am
Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 10:00 am
Simulation Modeling
Ray Madachy (C-Bridge):
· Software Schedule Analysis with Process Concurrence
Nancy Eickelmann (Motorola):
· Process Modeling and Simulation Experiments for Software Engineering
Jongmoon Baik (Motorola):
· Applying COCOMO II Effort Multipliers to Simulation Models
Dan Strickland:
· Investigating the Default Behavior of Requirements Evolution in COCOMO II

 

10:30 - 12:00 noon
Management Approaches
Don Reifer (USC-RCI):
· Business Case Analysis
Richard Stutzke (SAIC), Terry Palmer (Davidson), & William Beckett (US Army-AMCOM):
· Estimating the Preparation Effort for Document Peer Reviews
Marilee Wheaton, Rick Hefner (TRW):
· Using Process Improvement and Knowledge Management for Better Predictive Analysis Capability

12:00 - 5:00 pm
Affiliates' Lunch and Working Groups (Salvatori)
Candidates
COSYSMO issues:
· Reifer Outbriefing Workshop
· Valerdi Workshop
COQUALMO issues:
· Working Group Breakout Session
Experience Base Estimation Models Workgroup:
· Workgroup Presentation
· Diagram
· CeBASE Presentation

Friday, October 26:

7:30 - 8:00 am
Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 11:30 am
Working Group briefings & discussion