1. Working Group Meeting Report
USC-CSE Annual Research Review
Los Angeles, CA
March 16, 2004
Working Group Meeting Report
Ricardo Valerdi – USC Center for Software Engineering

2. COSYSMO Workshop Agenda
Morning (8:00 AM – noon)
Brief Overview of COSYSMO and Delphi R2 results
Updates on action items from October 2003 meeting
Open Issues on driver definitions
Preliminary Results from exploratory dataset
Afternoon (1:00 PM – 5:00 PM)
myCOSYSMO update
Sizing revisited
Life cycle extensions of the model
Other open issues & data collection
Action items

3. COSYSMO Introduction
Parametric model to estimate system engineering costs
Includes 4 size & 14 cost drivers
Covers full system engineering lifecycle
Developed with USC-CSE Corporate Affiliate and INCOSE participation
Conceptualize
Operate, Maintain, or
Enhance
Transition to
Operation
Replace or
Dismantle
Oper Test
& Eval
Develop

4. Action Items from October ‘03
Need to develop a better way to count requirements
Follow up with Delphi respondents that were outliers
Normalize the Delphi responses to Nominal # of System Requirements
Update Process Capability driver
Add “Extra High” ratings to the drivers that contain only 3 rating levels
Migration complexity
# and diversity of Installations/Platforms

5. Action Items from Working Group Meeting
Subgroups created to work on
Life cycle extensions (volatility and reuse)
EIA 632 activities included in the model
Insert ISO and CMM/CMMI equivalence (mapping) in the Process Capability Driver
Create a Key Process Areas questionnaire
Need a scope definitions of what an “organization” means
Reduce the Migration Complexity driver from 5 viewpoints to 2
Provide guidance on drivers with multiple viewpoints
Remove the words “shall” and “will” from the # of System Requirements driver; instead use the requirements verification matrix for sizing
Develop a block diagram of the model envisioned architecture
Prepare for Delphi Round 3
Prepare for next working group meeting: July 28th & 29th Keystone, PSM Users’ Group Conference

6. COSYSMO Stakeholders Raytheon BAE Aero Northrop LMCO Gen Dyn Boeing
Organization
Expressed interest
Attended Working Group Meeting
Signed NDA
Filled Out Delphi
Contributed Data
Developed Local Calibration
Uses model as a sanity check
Raytheon
BAE
Aero
Northrop
LMCO
Gen Dyn
Boeing
L-3 

7. USC/Raytheon myCOSYSMO*
*Developed by Gary Thomas at Raytheon Garland

8. Attendees (19) Garry Roedler (Lockheed Martin) John Rieff (Raytheon)
Paul Frenz (General Dynamics)
John Starita (General Dynamics)
Willie Williams (Boeing)
Marilee Wheaton (Aerospace)
Paul Mohlman (Aerospace)
Jesal Bhuta (USC)
Ricardo Valerdi (USC)
Via telecon
Chris Miller (SPC)
Roger Shepherd (Raytheon)
John Rieff (Raytheon)
Gary Thomas (Raytheon)
George Friedman (USC)
Barry Boehm (USC)
Merrill Palmer (BAE Systems)
Cheryl Jones (Army)
Gunter Daley (L-3 Comm)
Don Reifer (USC)
Jo Ann Lane (USC)

9. Questions or Comments? Dr. Barry Boehm boehm@sunset.usc.edu
Ricardo Valerdi
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