Managing Ada object-oriented development

Abstract

Many object-oriented methods focus on the technical aspects of constructing Ada software but lack the management controls necessary for mitigating the cost, schedule, and technical risks of a project as a whole. The lack of management control is often attributed to object-oriented development’s “iterative” nature. For object-oriented development to be practical on large-scale projects, it is essential that it reduce the risks of software development. This paper describes specific project management support built into an object-oriented life-cycle methodology that has been successfully used on several Ada efforts. The paper specifies how object-oriented modeling can control complexity and support management in requirements traceability, project planning and tracking, and configuration control.