Due: Wednesday, April 5, 2000 at 11:00 am

Read Chapter 3 of Cockburn

Your employer is a hardware and software systems vendor selling both
applications and one or more operating systems.

Place yourself in the situation of being appointed the manager of a
project that is to demonstrate he effectiveness of object oriented
technology for the development of both systems products and applications
products.

You have been asked to prepare a report that describes a path to
launching projects that are to demonstrate the application of object
oriented technology in both the operating system areas and in the
applications areas.

Your report is to consist of an executive summary of less than one page
(1" margins, 12 point type on 14 point lines, blank lines between
paragraphs) with the following report to be at most 5 pages (10 point
type on 12 point lines, 1" margins, blank lines between paragraphs).

Your report is to describe:

The size and objectives of the projects you propose together with
information about how to scale the results to larger teams and more
complex programs.

Programming languages and supporting tools that you consider appropriate
for the two classes of applications.

Educational requirements for the (quite large) staff.  The staff of the
smaller projects you recommend are to test how well these requirements
are met by the education you propose.

Programming conventions and guidelines for use in the two areas and with
the specific languages you recommend.

What kind of CASE tools would you recommend?  Why?

What kind of development support tools would you recommend? Why?

How would you control the length of compiles when changes to the program
are made?  Why would this work?

You may well want to describe one way of doing things for the initial
projects and use them to inform proposed decisions about the larger
application of the technology.  If you do this, explain what the simple
version helps you learn about the full version.

You should base your paper on the material presented in the reading
supplemented by material from earlier in the book.  (Don't use material
past Chapter 3 yet).

Simply  reciting or paraphrasing material from the text isn't a good
answer to this question.  You'll have to make some selections because
it's not possible to do use everything.