colbert@spp1.UUCP (11/15/84)
LA SIGAda* Meeting TOPIC: METHODMAN II SPEAKER: Dr. Bill Riddle DATE: Monday, 17 December 1984 TIME: 6:30 p.m. LOCATION: TRW Building E2 Presentation Room CONTACT: Carol LeDoux at 615-4360 ABSTRACT: The original METHODMAN document established a rationale for Ada-compatible software methodologies. This document included a preliminary set of requirements for these methodologies and a preliminary set of characteristics useful in comparing and contrasting them. Follow-on work, guided by the public commentary on METHODMAN I, has attempted to establish a conceptual basis for comparing methodologies according to their value for Ada-based software projects. This work has included an accounting of the concepts underlying software methodology, a specification of the problems involved in methodology evaluation, and the definition of an extensible framework for organizing the large collection of characteristics critical to evaluating methodologies. These results are reported in the next edition in the continuing series of METHODMAN documents, METHODMAN II, which will be available in early 1985. They will be reviewed in this talk with ample time for audience discussion and commentary. Bill Riddle is an independent consultant specializing in research, development, education and evaluation projects in the software engineering environments area. He has worked on Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems (STARS) projects for two years and has been actively involved in the METHODMAN Project. Before becoming an independent consultant, he directed software design and engineering work at Cray Laboratories, a research and development subsidiary of Cray Research. Prior to that, he was a professor of computer science at the Universities of Michigan and Colorado. His work has emphasized the description and analysis of software designs and the delivery of description and analysis techniques to practitioners through automated software environments. He is a former ACM National Lecturer and is currently chair of ACM SIGSOFT. Note: 1) LA SIGAda will be taking the Dr. Riddle to dinner after the meeting, if your interested in joining us call Ed Colbert, 535-1087 (we may need to make reservations if we have a large group). 2) If you are a member of LA SIGAda and have access to arpanet or uucp, you can receive meeting notices through the electronic mail. To do so, please send either your individual net address or the address of your local bulletin board to Carol LeDoux: ledoux@@aerospace or [<uucp address>!]areo!ledoux. You will continue to receive your meeting notices through the conventional mailing system as well. Future SIGAda Events: Nov 26-30: AdaJUG/SIGAda Meeting, in Arlington Virginia. Jan: LA AdaTEC Meeting March: LA AdaTEC/Orange County ACM Ada PDS June: LA AdaTEC's Ada Fair `85 * Ada is a registered trademark of the U.S. Government -- AJPO