Program Management Perspective

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Program Management Perspective

• Michael J. Buckley [phone]
• mikebuckley54_at_yahoo.com
• DOD
• PMP
• Former Analyst
• Linguist
• Not a Computer Scientist (some of my best
  friend are)?

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Program Management Perspective

• Correct Problem
• Agility
• Open Specification approach
• Systems Engineering
• Benefits
• Example

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Correct Problem

• Chaotic
• Structures, requirements or interchange formats
  varying greatly
• Things traditional RDBS has struggles
• Not for standard XML and schemas

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Agility

• Development is assumed as chaotic
• Planning on changing requirements and
  structures.
• Use inspection (visually) to determine progress

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Open Specification Approach

• Look for the right specifications as a solution
  (W3C RDF)?
• Choose a stack as a best of breed
• Consider open source solutions (good enough for
  google and significantly tested)?

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Systems Engineering

• Effort moves from Computer Science centric to
  systems engineering centric
• Map data and requirements to vocabularies
• Ontology and vocabulary based work
• More than 50 of the effort

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Systems Engineering (concluded)

• Requires an understanding of existing data
• Choose an approach of hosting or accessing
• Data conversion or adapting required
• Need resources knowledgeable with domain

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Benefits

• No neednor any possibility--to model the entire
  world, only target domains of interest
• Bottom up approach
• Ontology construction must only be for specific
  target domains

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One Solution Blackbook

• suited for increasing pace of change to target
  vocabularies
• increases interoperability
• potential to reasonably size resource cost of
  transition from legacy databases
• Open source to government and government use

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Questions????

• Problem Definition
• Program Management
• Systems Engineering
• Use