Agenda
USC-CSE Annual Research Review
Monday, March 11, 2002
Davidson Conference Center, USC
 

7:30 – 8:15      Continental Breakfast

8:15 – 10:00    Spiral, MBASE, and CeBASE Methods 

Barry Boehm, Vic Basili – Applying the CeBASE Method to the Army/DARPA Future Combat System
Dan Port – Empirical Methods for High Dependability Computing: Defect Seeding Revisited
LiGuo Huang – The Schedule-as-Independent-Variable Process Model 

10:00 – 10:30  Break

10:30 – 12:00  Software Knowledge and Experience Bases

Mohammed Al-Said – Model Clash Analysis Experience Base

12:00- 2:00 Lunch and Demonstrations

Agile COCOMO II, COCOTS-alpha, COQUALMO, CORADMO, EWW/Apollo
            MBASE EPG II, e-services Project Experience Base, Architecture tool demos

2:00 – 3:30 Software Architectures

            Marija Rakic, Nenad Medvidovic – Architectures for Mobile Distributed Systems
            Nikunj Mehta – Uses of Connectors in Software Architecture
            Ed Colbert - UML and the SAE Avionics Architecture Description Language

3:30 – 4:00 Break

4:00 – 5:30 COCOMO and Extensions

            Ricardo Valerdi – COSYSMO
            John Powell – COQUALMO Update
            Ray Madachy – New Software Dynamics Models 

5:30 – 8:30 Affiliates’ Steering Group Reception, Dinner, and Meeting

Agenda
USC-CSE Executive Workshop on Agile Methods
March 12 – 14, 2002
Davidson Conference Center, USC

Tuesday, March 12

7:30 – 8:15 Continental Breakfast

 8:15 – 10:00 Agile Methods Overview

            Alistair Cockburn, Humans and Technology – The World of Agile Methods
            Laurie Williams, NC State – Extreme Programming and Pair Programming
            Barry Boehm, USC – Assessment of Agile and Plan-Driven Methods

10:00 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 12:00 Agile Methods Experiences

            Ben Shulman, Tech Gnosis – Agile Methods and Virtual Teams
            Charles Leinbach, Freshwater Partners – Balancing Agile and Plan-Driven Methods for e-Commerce applications
            Andy Lay, Lockheed Martin – Experiences with Lean Development

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00- 2:30 Agile Methods and Plan-Driven Methods

            Walker Royce, Rational – Agile Methods and the Rational Unified Process
            Steve Cross, SEI – Agile Methods and CMM’s
            Dan Port, USC; Vic Basili, UMD – Agile Methods and the CeBASE Method  

2:30 – 3:00 Break

3:00 – 4:30 Special Topics  

            Don Reifer, USC – Agile Methods Survey Results
            Winsor Brown, USC – Agile Quality Management
            Peter Hantos, Xerox – Messrs. Taylor and Drucker: Meet Ken Beck and Alistair Cockburn

4:30 – 5:00 Working Group Formation

5:00 – 7:00 Reception

Wednesday, March 13

7:30 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 12:00 Working Group Sessions (10 – 10:30 break)

12:00 – 2:00 Lunch and Working Group Progress Reports

2:00 –5:30 Working Group Sessions (3:30 – 4 break)

            Candidate Working Groups (Moderator, Scribe)
                  1.      Agile Method Critical Success Factors (Don Reifer, Mohammed Al-Said)
                  2.      Agile Methods and the CMMI (Rich Turner, Apurva Jain)
                  3.      Hybrid Agile/Plan-Driven Method (Winsor Brown, Hasan Kitapci)
                  4.      Needed Research on Agile Methods (Dan Port, LiGuo Huang)

Thursday, March 14

 7:30 – 8:00 Continental Breakfast

 8:00 – 11:00 Working Group Reports (9:20 – 9:40 break)

 11:00 – 11:30 USC-CSE Response and Next Steps

 12:00 – 5:00 COSYSMO Working Group lunch and working session (15 attendees)