While object-oriented development methods and models have been in use for several years, management and assessment techniques for object-oriented development have not kept pace. Based on extensive experience with object-oriented projects (project assessment coordination and management), this tutorial examines technical and managerial concerns facing practitioners and researchers today. Key lessons learned are outlined and discussed regarding metric adoption, metric selection, metric validation and tuning, results interpretation/reporting -- creating the requisite visibility for successful object-oriented development efforts.

This tutorial serves as an introduction to object-oriented development project and process metrics. Tutorial attendees will learn about:

• key problems and solutions related to the management of object-oriented projects
• effective assessment metrics and techniques for controlling object-oriented projects
• a general approach for project management according to product features and factory goals
• metric-based guidelines useful for managing projects reaching a higher quality with a lower effort

Presenters: Paolo Nesi

Paolo Nesi is Associate Professor at the Department of Systems and Informatics, University of Florence, Italy and holds the scientific responsibility at CESVIT CQ-ware (High-Tech Agency, center for software quality) for object-oriented and HPCN technologies, for TTN (Technology Transfer Node) TETRApc ESPRIT. His current research interests includes object-oriented technology, metrics, project management, real-time systems, quality, testing. He has been General Chair of Objective Quality Symposium 1995, Program Chair of 2nd Euromicro Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering; Program co-Chair of 3rd Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering; He will be the General Chair of the IEEE 2001 International Conference on Software Maintenance, Florence, Italy. He is the author of more than 100 technical papers on international journals and conferences, and Guest Editor of special issues of international journals. He is an editorial board member of Journals and the project coordinator or assessment responsible of several internal and multi-partner ESPRIT projects.