42 Advanced Object Project Management

Kenneth Rubin, Secant Technologies, Inc.

Convention Centre
Ballroom B

Software development projects have to be managed properly to obtain the most benefits from object-oriented technology. To meet and exceed project goals, issues surrounding planning and control, team structure, software development environment, methodology, reuse, quality assurance and measurement must be understood and addressed. This tutorial discusses advanced project management aspects related to these issues. The details of a particular shrink-wrapped, software development project will be used as a case study.

Participants will be acquainted with advanced project management issues surrounding software development projects using object technology through the presenter's sharing of real-world, detailed experiences in managing the development of a commercial software product. They will also be provided with useful suggestions and lessons learned.

Attendee Background: Attendees should be project managers or should have an interest in project management. Experience managing on one or more object projects would be helpful.

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.