Software Engineering Practices; are Software Quality and Time to Market Incompatible?

Subtitle: An Interview with Steve Cross

Article type: Research Article

Abstract: Stephen E. Cross is the Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a United States Department of Defense sponsored Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) situated as a college-level unit at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Cross is a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and the past chairman of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology (ISAT) panel. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Cross received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, his M.S.E.E. from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and his B.S.E.E. from the University of Cincinnati. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1994. Dr. Cross was profiled in a Jan. 4, 2002, article titled Gurus of Tomorrows Technology in the online edition of Business Week.

Journal: Information Knowledge Systems Management, vol. 3, no. 2-4, pp. 81-85, 2002/2003