TUTORIAL SESSION

Mr. Donald Firesmith
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
dgf@sei.cmu.edu

Qualifications of the Instructor(s)

Donald Firesmith is a senior member of the technical staff at the SEI, working in the acquisition support program where he helps the US Department of Defense acquire large complex software-intensive systems. With over 25 years of industry experience, he has published 5 software engineering books, primarily in the areas of process and object orientation. He is currently finishing the manuscript of a book, on which this course is built. He is the founding chair of the OPEN Process Framework (OPF) Repository organization, which provides the world's largest free open-source website documenting over 1,100 reusable method components. He has a regular column on requirements engineering in the Journal of Object Technology (JOT). He has published dozens of articles (see www.donald-firesmith.com/Firesmith/Articles.html), spoken at numerous conferences, and has been the program chair or on the program committee of several conferences. He has taught several hundred courses in industry and many tutorials at conferences.