OTUG March 2005 Distinguished Lecture

Date:	March 15, 2005 (third Tuesday)
Time:	5:30 – 7:00 Hors d’oeuvres 7:00 – 8:30 Lecture 8:30 – 8:50 Dessert 8:50 – 10:00 Lecture conclusion
Location:	O'Shaughnessy Education Center Auditorium, University of St Thomas campus [directions]
Topic:	A Distinguished Lecture by Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang Software by Numbers
Resources:	Slides from the lecture

"Software by Numbers"

Incremental Funding Methodology: IFM

Software by Numbers introduces IFM, an ROI-informed approach to software development in which software is developed and delivered in carefully prioritized chunks of customer valued functionality. These chunks are known as Minimum Marketable Features or MMFs.

IFM integrates traditional software engineering activities with financially informed project management strategies. IFM heuristics provide clarity into important metrics such as project level NPV, ROI, initial start-up investment costs, and time needed for a project to reach self-funding status. It enables developers, customers, and business stakeholders to answer critical questions related to the development and delivery of a product and to optimize strategies accordingly.

In short, IFM equips developers and project managers with techniques and principles for increasing the financial returns of a software project and for identifying development schedules that make a project financially feasible.

Speakers

Mark Denne is the Managing Principal for the Utility Computing Practice at VERITAS Software. Prior to this he managed Sun Microsystems' Java Center in New York City, leading a team of Java architects working with financial services, media, and retail clients. Before taking this role, he was Sun's chief architect for Citibank's financial services portal, now Citibank Online, voted the world's best online banking site by both Forbes Magazine and Yahoo Magazine. As Head of Software Research and Development for Computer Automation Europe, he invented the SABRE 4GL and he brought to market the first SABRE compiler for UNIX.

Dr. Jane Cleland-Huang is an Assistant Professor at DePaul University's School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems. Her research interests include Object-Oriented design, Process Models, and Requirements Engineering. As a member of the International Center for Software Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, she published research papers on and developed the EBT prototype for supporting robust requirements traceability. She is a member of the SABRE consortium, the IEEE Computer Society, and the ACM.

Book Web Site:

www.softwarebynumbers.org

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