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Richard E. (Dick) Fairley PhD is a retired professor of software and systems engineering. He has a consulting company and provides training courses to industry. His education is in electrical engineering and computer science. His specialties are software engineering, systems engineering, and engineering management. Dick has published three textbooks and many professional papers. His most recent book is Systems Engineering for Software-Intensive Systems, published by Wiley. He is a commissioner, team leader, and program evaluator for ABET – the international organization that evaluates academic programs for accreditation.Dick was a part time jazz disc jockey for many years. He is currently preparing the manuscript for a forthcoming book: Keeping Jazz Alive, 1880 to 2020. His avocations are traveling with his wife Mary Jane, skiing, motorcycle riding, reading Shakespeare and other literature, and listening to/reading about/writing about jazz and the blues. Dick and Mary Jane live in the Colorado mountains northwest of Colorado Spring, Colorado, USA, at an altitude of 9000 feet (2743 meters). Their sunroom looks out on a national forest on the north side of 14,115 feet Pikes Peak (4302 meters) in the background.

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Session details: One and two-day tutorials

International Conference on Software Engineering, May 3, 2003

Teams Teamwork Motivation Leadership and Communication

Managing and Leading Software Projects, 2009

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a lea... more If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.-John Quincy Adams [Note to readers: the following is a revised version of Chapter 10 from the book Managing and Leading Software Projects written by me, Richard E. (Dick) Fairley. The book was published by Wiley in 2009. This chapter is focused on managing and leading software projects but much of material is applicable to other kinds of engineering projects, and to other kinds of intellect-based endeavors. Although the text was published in 2009, the topics in Chapter 10 are as relevant in 2024 and in 2009. Some review exercises and references that provide additional information are included; an appendix provides overviews of the text Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2 nd Ed. and the relevant elements of the Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge.]

Teams Teamwork Motivation Leadership and Communication

Managing and Leading Software Project, 2009

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a lea... more If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.-John Quincy Adams [Note to readers: the following is a revised version of Chapter 10 from the book Managing and Leading Software Projects written by me, Richard E. (Dick) Fairley. The book was published by Wiley in 2009. This chapter is focused on managing and leading software projects but much of material is applicable to other kinds of engineering projects, and to other kinds of intellect-based endeavors. Although the text was published in 2009, the topics in Chapter 10 are as relevant in 2024 and in 2009. Some review exercises and references that provide additional information are included; an appendix provides overviews of the text Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2 nd Ed. and the relevant elements of the Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge.]

Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Software engineering

International Conference on Software Engineering, May 15, 1989

Recent Trends in Graduate Software Engineering

This panel will discuss recent trends in graduate software engineering programs, including adopti... more This panel will discuss recent trends in graduate software engineering programs, including adoption of GSwE2009, cooperative programs between schools, increasing use of distance education formats, and specialization of programs for industry partners. Panelists will also discuss the evolving relationship of software engineering to other disciplines, such as computer science and systems engineering.

Report of the Future Software Engineering Curriculum Working Group

Springer eBooks, 1987

This is the presentation made by Dick Fairley, Wang Institute, summarizing the discussions of the... more This is the presentation made by Dick Fairley, Wang Institute, summarizing the discussions of the working group on future software engineering curriculum. This working group was charged with the task of looking 10 years into the future of software engineering to examine the educational needs for the practitioners in the 1990’s.

Making accurate estimates [software development estimation]

IEEE Software, Nov 1, 2002

CSEET Panel Frailey 2013

CSEET13MAIN-ID99-P-14732-SUBMITTED

Managing and Leading Software Projects

Kybernetes, 2010

Systems Engineering and Quality Attributes-SEBoK

Every system has a set of properties that are largely a function of the system as a whole rather ... more Every system has a set of properties that are largely a function of the system as a whole rather than just its constituent parts. There are dozens of these properties such as security, reliability, safety, resistance to electromagnetic interference, usability, and resilience. This Knowledge Area (KA) describes many of the most important such properties and how they are realized. The vocabulary to talk about these properties is not standard. Alternatively, they are called quality attributes, nonfunctional requirements, -ilities, and specialties. In this KA, the term specialty engineering refers to the collective engineering of all quality attributes of a system.

Session details: One and two-day tutorials

international conference on software engineering, May 3, 2003

Software product assurance at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

by Marilyn Bush and Dick Fairley

Information and Software Technology, 1990

Abstract The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible to NASA for conducting scientific investiga... more Abstract The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible to NASA for conducting scientific investigations of the solar system using automated spacecraft. In recognition of the growing dependence of JPL missions on computer software, a new software product assurance (SPA) organization has been created. The paper describes the SPA organization and the novel approach to assuring safety, reliability, and efficiency of software that is being pursued by the SPA group. Activities, results to date, and lessons learned are presented.

Session details: Mini-tutorial

Quality Management-SEBoK

The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your br... more

Software Engineering in the Systems Engineering Life Cycle-SEBoK

This article describes how software engineering (SwE) life cycle processes integrate with the SE ... more This article describes how software engineering (SwE) life cycle processes integrate with the SE life cycle. A joint workshop organized by INCOSE, the Systems Engineering Research Center and the IEEE Computer Society was held to consider this relationship (Pyster et al, 2015). This workshop concluded that: Software is fundamental to the performance, features, and value of most modern engineering systems. It is not merely part of the system, but often shapes the system architecture; drives much of its complexity and emergent behavior; strains its verification; and drives much of the cost and schedule of its development. Given how significant an impact software has on system development and given how complex modern systems are, one would expect the relationship between the disciplines of systems engineering (SE) and software engineering (SWE) to be well defined. However, the relationship is, in fact, not well understood or articulated. In this article we give some of the basic relatio...

Systems Engineering and Specialty Engineering-SEBoK

Every system has a set of properties that are largely a function of the system as a whole rather ... more Every system has a set of properties that are largely a function of the system as a whole rather than just its constituent parts; e.g., security, reliability, cost, and resilience. This KA describes the engineering disciplines that enable the realization of those properties. Collectively, these disciplines are referred to as specialty engineering. Some consider specialty engineering to be a subdiscipline of SE itself; e.g. they consider security engineering, safety engineering, resilience engineering, etc. to be part of SE. Others consider them to be stand-alone disciplines in their own right. Either way, their mastery is important to a system engineer. Moreover, they are usually interdependent; e.g. increasing system reliability often requires using more expensive parts and adding redundant components. Hence, higher reliability often means higher cost to deliver a system – another system property. However, higher reliability might mean lower maintenance cost – another system proper...

CSEET Panel Frailey 2013

Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering

Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering, 1989

Report of the Current Software Engineering Curricula Working Groups

Software Engineering Education, 1987

This is the presentation made by Al Pietrasanta, IBM Corporation, summarizing the discussions of ... more

Session details: One and two-day tutorials

International Conference on Software Engineering, May 3, 2003

Teams Teamwork Motivation Leadership and Communication

Managing and Leading Software Projects, 2009

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a lea... more If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.-John Quincy Adams [Note to readers: the following is a revised version of Chapter 10 from the book Managing and Leading Software Projects written by me, Richard E. (Dick) Fairley. The book was published by Wiley in 2009. This chapter is focused on managing and leading software projects but much of material is applicable to other kinds of engineering projects, and to other kinds of intellect-based endeavors. Although the text was published in 2009, the topics in Chapter 10 are as relevant in 2024 and in 2009. Some review exercises and references that provide additional information are included; an appendix provides overviews of the text Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2 nd Ed. and the relevant elements of the Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge.]

Teams Teamwork Motivation Leadership and Communication

Managing and Leading Software Project, 2009

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a lea... more If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.-John Quincy Adams [Note to readers: the following is a revised version of Chapter 10 from the book Managing and Leading Software Projects written by me, Richard E. (Dick) Fairley. The book was published by Wiley in 2009. This chapter is focused on managing and leading software projects but much of material is applicable to other kinds of engineering projects, and to other kinds of intellect-based endeavors. Although the text was published in 2009, the topics in Chapter 10 are as relevant in 2024 and in 2009. Some review exercises and references that provide additional information are included; an appendix provides overviews of the text Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2 nd Ed. and the relevant elements of the Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge.]

Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Software engineering

International Conference on Software Engineering, May 15, 1989

Recent Trends in Graduate Software Engineering

This panel will discuss recent trends in graduate software engineering programs, including adopti... more This panel will discuss recent trends in graduate software engineering programs, including adoption of GSwE2009, cooperative programs between schools, increasing use of distance education formats, and specialization of programs for industry partners. Panelists will also discuss the evolving relationship of software engineering to other disciplines, such as computer science and systems engineering.

Report of the Future Software Engineering Curriculum Working Group

Springer eBooks, 1987

This is the presentation made by Dick Fairley, Wang Institute, summarizing the discussions of the... more This is the presentation made by Dick Fairley, Wang Institute, summarizing the discussions of the working group on future software engineering curriculum. This working group was charged with the task of looking 10 years into the future of software engineering to examine the educational needs for the practitioners in the 1990’s.

Making accurate estimates [software development estimation]

IEEE Software, Nov 1, 2002

CSEET Panel Frailey 2013

CSEET13MAIN-ID99-P-14732-SUBMITTED

Managing and Leading Software Projects

Kybernetes, 2010

Systems Engineering and Quality Attributes-SEBoK

Every system has a set of properties that are largely a function of the system as a whole rather ... more Every system has a set of properties that are largely a function of the system as a whole rather than just its constituent parts. There are dozens of these properties such as security, reliability, safety, resistance to electromagnetic interference, usability, and resilience. This Knowledge Area (KA) describes many of the most important such properties and how they are realized. The vocabulary to talk about these properties is not standard. Alternatively, they are called quality attributes, nonfunctional requirements, -ilities, and specialties. In this KA, the term specialty engineering refers to the collective engineering of all quality attributes of a system.

Session details: One and two-day tutorials

international conference on software engineering, May 3, 2003

Software product assurance at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

by Marilyn Bush and Dick Fairley

Information and Software Technology, 1990

Abstract The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible to NASA for conducting scientific investiga... more Abstract The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible to NASA for conducting scientific investigations of the solar system using automated spacecraft. In recognition of the growing dependence of JPL missions on computer software, a new software product assurance (SPA) organization has been created. The paper describes the SPA organization and the novel approach to assuring safety, reliability, and efficiency of software that is being pursued by the SPA group. Activities, results to date, and lessons learned are presented.

Session details: Mini-tutorial

Quality Management-SEBoK

The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your br... more

Software Engineering in the Systems Engineering Life Cycle-SEBoK

This article describes how software engineering (SwE) life cycle processes integrate with the SE ... more This article describes how software engineering (SwE) life cycle processes integrate with the SE life cycle. A joint workshop organized by INCOSE, the Systems Engineering Research Center and the IEEE Computer Society was held to consider this relationship (Pyster et al, 2015). This workshop concluded that: Software is fundamental to the performance, features, and value of most modern engineering systems. It is not merely part of the system, but often shapes the system architecture; drives much of its complexity and emergent behavior; strains its verification; and drives much of the cost and schedule of its development. Given how significant an impact software has on system development and given how complex modern systems are, one would expect the relationship between the disciplines of systems engineering (SE) and software engineering (SWE) to be well defined. However, the relationship is, in fact, not well understood or articulated. In this article we give some of the basic relatio...

Systems Engineering and Specialty Engineering-SEBoK

Every system has a set of properties that are largely a function of the system as a whole rather ... more Every system has a set of properties that are largely a function of the system as a whole rather than just its constituent parts; e.g., security, reliability, cost, and resilience. This KA describes the engineering disciplines that enable the realization of those properties. Collectively, these disciplines are referred to as specialty engineering. Some consider specialty engineering to be a subdiscipline of SE itself; e.g. they consider security engineering, safety engineering, resilience engineering, etc. to be part of SE. Others consider them to be stand-alone disciplines in their own right. Either way, their mastery is important to a system engineer. Moreover, they are usually interdependent; e.g. increasing system reliability often requires using more expensive parts and adding redundant components. Hence, higher reliability often means higher cost to deliver a system – another system property. However, higher reliability might mean lower maintenance cost – another system proper...

CSEET Panel Frailey 2013

Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering

Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering, 1989

Report of the Current Software Engineering Curricula Working Groups

Software Engineering Education, 1987

This is the presentation made by Al Pietrasanta, IBM Corporation, summarizing the discussions of ... more

Teams Teamwork Motivation Leadership and Communication

Teams, Teamwork, Motivation, Leadership, and Communication, 2024

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a lea... more If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.-John Quincy Adams [Note to readers: the following is a revised version of Chapter 10 from the book Managing and Leading Software Projects written by me, Richard E. (Dick) Fairley. The book was published by Wiley in 2009. This chapter is focused on managing and leading software projects but much of material is applicable to other kinds of engineering projects, and to other kinds of intellect-based endeavors. Although the text was published in 2009, the topics in Chapter 10 are as relevant in 2024 and in 2009. Some review exercises and references that provide additional information are included; an appendix provides overviews of the text Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2 nd Ed. and the relevant elements of the Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge.]