28 Object Transition Management

Kenneth Rubin, Secant Technologies, Inc.

Convention Centre
Room 13

Attempting to adopt object technology in an ad hoc manner is a prescription for failure. The successful introduction of object technology into an organization must be handled in a planned, incremental fashion. Transition management is a rigorous process for adopting object-oriented technology into an organization. The appropriate transition management strategy for one organization may not be suitable for another. This tutorial presents a methodology for developing a transition management strategy. Descriptions are provided of critical transition projects such as selecting a process model, establishing a reuse business model, defining team structures, establishing a training program, adopting a measurement strategy, and selecting development methodologies. Special emphasis is placed on the pitfalls that attend object transition strategies, and specific examples/recommendations based on the presenter's experience introducing object technology into many organizations are presented.

Participants will leave with a good foundation for developing their own transition management strategy.

Attendee Background: Participants should be preparing to introduce object technology into their organization, or in the process of adopting the technology. In addition, participants should be interested in the broad, interwoven set of managerial and organizational issues that influence a successful adoption of an advanced technology to meet business needs.

Mr. Rubin is Chief Operating Officer of Secant Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise object application server computing technologies for assembling, deploying and managing large, business-critical, distributed object systems. Mr. Rubin has over thirteen years experience working on and managing software development projects using object-oriented technology. He is the co-author, along with Adele Goldberg, of the book "Succeeding with Objects: Decision Frameworks for Project Management," and the author of over 30 publications on the topics of managing object-oriented projects, object-oriented analysis and design, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. Mr. Rubin received his BS. in Information and Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his MS. in Computer Science from Stanford University.