John Bergey

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Key Responsibilities

Key member of the Business and Acquisition Guidelines (BAG) team for transitioning SEI technologies into DoD acquisition practice Personally assist DoD acquisition programs in proactively developing system acquisition strategies to adopt Product Line Systems technologies such as the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis MethodSM (ATAMSM) and Quality Attribute WorkshopSM (QAWSM) technologies to reduce software acquisition risk Co-developer of Options Analysis for ReengineeringSM (OARSM), a unique decision making method for estimating the cost, effort, difficulty and risk of reusing legacy software

Professional Background

John joined the SEI in 1993 as a visiting scientist and has since become a full time member of the technical staff. As a member of the Product Line Systems Program he proactively assists DoD programs in applying and transitioning SEI technologies such as product line practices, the ATAM, and the QAW to improve their acquisition practices and reduce software acquisition risk. Before coming to the SEI, John had a 25 year career with the U.S. Naval Air Development Center (NADC) where he served as a software division manager responsible for the life cycle support of the avionics software for the Navys major antisubmarine warfare patrol and attack aircraft. In this capacity, John was instrumental in applying total quality management principles and commercial technologies to make substantial improvements in the Navys software development and acquisition practices.

Publications (recent or significant)

Software Product Line Acquisition: A Companion to A Framework for Software Product Line Practice Version 3 (Co-author); April 2004
Software Product Line Experiences from the Sixth DoD Software Product Line Workshop, CMU/SEI-2004-TN-011
Application of Options Analysis for Reengineering (OAR) in a Lead System Integrator (LSI) Environment, CMU/SEI-2003-TN-009
An Application of an Iterative Approach to DoD Software Migration Planning, CMU/SEI-2002-TN-027
Use of the Architecture Analysis and Tradeoff Method (ATAM) in Source Selection of Software Intensive Systems, CMU/SEI-2002-TN-010

Teams

Product Line Systems Business and Acquisition Guidelines (BAG) Product Line Technical Probe (PLTP) teams for DoD program offices Options Analysis for Reengineering (OAR) Development Team Future Combat System (FCS) Reuse of Legacy Assets IRAD Common Link Integration Processing (CLIP) joint service program