Managing Ada projects: the people issues

  • Authors:
  • D. G. Firesmith

  • Affiliations:
  • President, Advanced Software Technology Specialists, 3418 Broadway, Fort Wayne, IN

  • Venue:
  • TRI-Ada '88 Proceedings of the conference on TRI-Ada '88
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

In order to successfully manage the new Ada technology, the software manager must be able to: successfully interact with upper management, negotiate with and educate the contracting agency, user, and Independent Verification and Validation (IV & V) personnel, and lead an often diverse group of developers using new software development methods and tools in addition to a new language. This paper points out problems and offers solutions for dealing with project politics, sociology, and psychology that often have a larger impact on the success of Ada projects than do the technical issues.