Object Oriented Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges

Rick Gibson is an Associate Professor at the American University in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems. His research has been focused on global software development and software process improvement.Dr. Gibson has over 20 years of software engineering and management experience. He has managed major projects in support of commercial, government and educational organizations for development of computer applications. He has trained project teams around the globe in project management, defect prevention, quality metrics, ISO 9000, and Y2K remediation. Dr. Gibson's background includes system development using structured and object oriented software development methodologies. As a Software Engineering Institute authorized lead evaluator, he conducted software evaluations of over forty different software development organizations. He has extensive experience in the development of process improvement and corrective action plans for evaluated organizations.

Object Oriented Requirements Analysis - its Challenges and Use; Building on Structured Design Techniques in the Object Oriented Environment; Object Oriented Testing in Software Development; Technical and Market Viability of Object Database Technology; Software Reuse and Object Technology; Reuse in Object Oriented Technology - an Empirical Study of Experienced and Novice Analysts; How to Transform Legacy Systems into Object Oriented Systems; Distributed Object Business Engineering - Digital Legos for the Enterprise; What are the Actual Industry Expectations and Needs with Regard to Object Oriented Technologies?; Business Process Reengineering with Object Oriented Technology - Is the Gamble Worth the Risk.