AntiPatterns identify those bad design practices that lead to poor-quality software and project failure. AntiPatterns are fun to read and discuss with friends. But get serious! This session is about the truth of software technology and development. In it, you will see what's really happening in technology and on software projects,and what you can do about it. In this session, managers, architects, and developers will learn:
Hays "Skip" McCormick is a lead engineer
in the Emerging Technology Engineering Department at MITRE-Washington.
Skip is currently MITRE's project lead for the National Imagery and Mapping
Agency (NIMA) Interoperable Technology Reification with Objects (NITRO)
project which is the 1997 implementor follow-on from the Data Integration
and Synergistic Collateral Usage Study (DISCUS) project. Having a wide
range of experience in distributed systems both from a security and a software
engineering perspective, and a background in artificial intelligence and
expert systems development, he has published and presented several articles
for various ADPA and AFCEA conferences and symposia, and is currently working
on his next book, "Patterns and AntiPatterns in Configuration Management:
the Lost Disciplines" to be available in March 1999 from J.S. Wiley publishers.
Mr. McCormick holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from
the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.