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Software Process Improvement
  • Knowledge Evolution’s principal, Dr. Sidney Bailin, is a world-recognized leader in the field of software reuse, and was one of the inventors of object-oriented analysis. We have contributed to software process and development methodology and have helped customers apply the methods most appropriate to their circumstances.

    Today, we are strong advocates of the Agile Scrum methodology as a frequently useful approach. However, we believe that each organization and project has unique needs, and the software process must be adapted accordingly.

  • We performed a review of the NRC’s software reuse policy as it relates to power plant safety issues.
  • Customer: DARPA, Application: Design Rationale Capture
  • We led a project addressing the modeling of design decisions and rationale. The resulting technology, called Formal Alternatives Management, is applicable to IT system development/evolution as well as other knowledge intensive enterprises.
  • Through a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project with NASA/Kennedy Space Center, we developed a multi-modal (speech and gesture recognition) rationale capture capability that allows knowledge workers to document and comment their work products non-intrusively as they develop them.

    This technology was refined by a subsequent project by students at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, overseen by Knowledge Evolution. The technology was written up as a NASA Tech Brief, and an improvement of it is now patented.

  • Customer: DARPA, Application: Software Reuse through Organizational Learning
  • The LIBRA methodology (Learning and Inquiry-Based Reuse Adoption) was developed originally through the DARPA Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems (STARS) Program, but it is more generally applicable to knowledge reuse in any enterprise.

    LIBRA focuses on identifying and bridging the disconnects in beliefs, vocabulary, and values of team members, thereby overcoming obstacles such as the “Not Invented Here Syndrome” and similar barriers to effective knowledge sharing.

    A book describing LIBRA, co-authored by Knowledge Evolution’s principal, was published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

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