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Home > CrossTalk Apr 2007

CrossTalk - The Journal of Defense Software Engineering
  April 2007  
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Table of Contents Download Entire Issue (0704CrossTalk.pdf PDF 1985KB)
  Agile Development  
  * What Engineering Has in Common With Manufacturing and Why It Matters  (0704Cockburn.pdf PDF 171KB)
by Dr. Alistair Cockburn
This article equates software engineering decsions to manufacturing products. It then picks six lessons from the last 50 years in manufacturing and applies these lessons to software development.
 
  * Collaboration Skills for Agile Teams  (0704Derby.pdf PDF 98KB)
by Esther Derby
In this article, Esther Derby outlines key collaboration skills that help teams maintain productive relationships, avoid destructive conflict, and benefit from everyone’s best ideas.
 
  * Toward Agile Systems Engineering Processes  (0704Turner.pdf PDF 270KB)
by Dr. Richard Turner
This article presents thoughts on agility and systems engineering, looking at how systems engineering can be more agile and how it can support agility in other disciplines, hoping to look at systems engineering through the agile lens and to extend the dialogue between agile and plan-driven software proponents into the systems engineering world.
 
 
  Software Engineering Technology  
  * CMMI Level 5 and the Team Software Process  (0704WebbMilukVanBuren.pdf PDF 705KB)
by David R. Webb, Dr. Gene Miluk, and Jim Van Buren
The 309th Software Maintenance Group’s Team Software Process (TSP) team successfully addressed many issues to complete its Capability Maturity Model Integration Level 5 assessment while adapting their existing TSP process scripts, measures, and forms.
 
  * “OO-OO-OO!” The Sound of a Broken OODA Loop  (0704Ullman.pdf PDF 142KB)
by Dr. David G. Ullman
In this article, the author explores why the Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act Loop gets stuck at the decision step process, and it instructs how to put the D in the loop as a basis for effective action.
 
  * Using Switched Fabrics and Data Distribution Service to Develop High Performance Distributed Data-Critical Systems  (0704Joshi.pdf PDF 197KB)
by Dr. Rajive Joshi
The author describes how the Data Distribution Service data-centric publish-subscribe middleware layer can realize the full potential of a hardware switched fabric network to deliver a complete solution for application developers.
 
 
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Call for Articles (PDF file PDF 167KB)
Letter to the Editor (PDF file PDF 32KB)
SSTC 2007 (PDF file PDF 166KB)
BackTalk (PDF file PDF 51KB)
Back Cover (PDF file PDF 425KB)
 

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