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Managing Ada object-oriented development

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Ada: Moving Towards 2000 (Ada-Europe 1992)

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Many object-oriented methods focus on the technical aspects of constructing Ada software but lack the management controls necessary for mitigating the cost, schedule, and technical risks of a project as a whole. The lack of management control is often attributed to object-oriented development's “iterative” nature. For object-oriented development to be practical on large-scale projects, it is essential that it reduce the risks of software development. This paper describes specific project management support built into an object-oriented life-cycle methodology that has been successfully used on several Ada efforts. The paper specifies how object-oriented modeling can control complexity and support management in requirements traceability, project planning and tracking, and configuration control.

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  1. SYNETICS, 8233 Old Courthouse Road, 22182, Vienna, Virginia, USA

    John A. Anderson

  2. The MITRE Corporation, 7525 Colshire Drive, 22102, McLean, Virginia, USA

    John D. Sheffler

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Anderson, J.A., Sheffler, J.D. (1992). Managing Ada object-oriented development. In: van Katwijk, J. (eds) Ada: Moving Towards 2000. Ada-Europe 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 603. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55585-4_3

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