CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering. Volume 20, Number 8, August 2007
Abstract
This month we start with a story of successful change in Iraq. In "Good News From Iraq," CAPT Steven Lucks (Ret.) discusses changing the infrastructure of Iraq with the help of developing a data control system that requires software, computers, supporting electronics, and participation from multiple organizations in multiple countries. Next, Nelson Perez and Earnest Ambrose relate their story of successful software process improvement in "Lessons Learned in Using Agile Methods for Process Improvement." We conclude our theme article section with Deb Jacobs' ideas for controlling change in "Controlling Organizational Change: Beyond the Nightmare." In her article, she proposes several out-of-the-box ideas to implement change. As we move to our supporting sections, Harvey Reed and COL Fred Stein (Ret.) introduce net-centric conversations as a way to track agility information among software systems in "Net-Centric Conversations: the Enterprise Unit of Work." In "A Unified Service Description for the Global Information Grid," Dr. Yun-Tung Lau identifies linkages between existing service description standards used within the Global Information Grid (GIG) and Department of Defense frameworks with the intent to provide an end-to-end picture of a service module and its role in a GIG enterprise. Next, Joe Schofield discusses a process to estimate the number of latent defects remaining in software. His discussion in "Beyond Defect Removal: Latent Defect Estimation With Capture-Recapture Method" can be leveraged to decide how to proceed with a software product, including planning for rework.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA487053