Robert Ferguson

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Key Responsibilities

Consult with customers to provide measurement guidance for process and product. Deliver SEI courseware on engineering measurement and analysis. Participate in research on methods of measurement and analysis of industry results.

Professional Background

Bob Ferguson is a Project Management Professional (PMP). He has 30 years of software development experience in five different industries. For 20 of those years he was a development manager and project manager. He has been actively involved in software measurement since 1992. His experience includes real-time flight simulation, CAD/CAM, instrumentation, telecommunications, MIS applications and decision support systems. He also served as chairman of the Chicago SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) for more than 2 years.

Publications (recent or significant)

• "A Method for Assessing Technical Progress and Quality Throughout the System Life Cycle," Software Engineering Institute Technical Note CMU/SEI-2009-TN-032, November 2009.
• "Measurement for Improvement: Successful Measurement Practices Used in Army Software Acquisition," Software Engineering Institute Technical Note CMU/SEI-2009-TN-008, June 2009.
• "A Project Risk Metric," CrossTalk, April 2004.

Teams

SEMA

Education

• MS, Mathematics, Tulane
• BS, Mathematics, Florida Presbyterian College

Professional Memberships

• Project Management Institute
• IEEE

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