Raymond J.
Madachy
Dr. Raymond Madachy is
a Research Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering
Department and Principal of the USC
Center for Systems and Software Engineering. Prior to
full-time research at USC he was Chief Science Officer at Cost Xpert Group. Previously he
was Chief Scientist at C-bridge
Institute, where he led consulting and training in software
methodologies and economic analysis. Before that he was manager
of the Software Engineering Process Group at at Litton Guidance and Control Systems
achieving SEI CMM Level 4 after being the lead for software metrics,
cost estimation and risk management at Litton Data Systems. He
has also served as a Visiting Scientist with the Software Engineering Institute.
He wrote the book Software
Process Dynamics and is a co-author of Software
Cost Estimation with COCOMO II. His consulting clients
have included Chevron,
Northrop-Grumman, Seagate, Motorola, Lucent, USAA, Blue Cross and other
Fortune 500 firms. He has also performed as an expert witness on
software cost, quality and contractual disputes.
He completed his Ph.D. in Industrial
and Systems Engineering at USC in 1994. For his dissertation
research,
he developed a software project dynamics model for process cost,
schedule
and risk assessment. He also has an M.S. in Systems Science from the
University
of California, San Diego and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Dayton. He is a senior member of IEEE, ACM, INCOSE, Tau
Beta
Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, serves on the program committees for the International
Forum on COCOMO and Software Cost Modeling, the SPW/ProSim
workshop, and has served on program committees for several other
conferences. He previously served on the LA
Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) steering committee.
He lives with his wife Nancy
and twin
daughters
in San Diego, CA. Ray enjoys bicycling and hiking up mountains in his
spare
time. 
Classes
CSCI
577B - Software Engineering II (Spring 2006)
CSCI
510 - Software Management and Economics (Fall 2005)
CSCI
577B - Software Engineering II (Spring 2003)
CSCI
577B
- Software Engineering II (Spring 2002) (guest lectures only)
CSCI
577A
- Software Engineering I (Fall 2001) (guest lectures only)
CSCI 599 -
Software Process
Modeling (Fall 1999)
CSCI 577B -
Design and
Construction of Large Software Systems (Spring 1999)
CSCI 577B -
Design and
Construction of Large Software Systems (Spring 1998)
ISE 435 -
Discrete Systems
Simulation (Fall 1996)
Research Projects
Selected Publications
- Madachy R, Simulation in Software Engineering,
Encyclopedia
of Software Engineering, Second Edition, Wiley and Sons, Inc., New
York,
NY, 2001
- Madachy R, New Processes for Rapid Software
Development
(invited
talk), Proceedings of the Fifth World Conference on Systemics,
Cybernetics
and Informatics and the Seventh International Conference on Information
Systems Analysis and Synthesis, IEEE Computer Society, Orlando, FL,
July
2001
- Boehm, B, Abts C, Brown W, Chulani S, Clark B, Horowitz E, Madachy
R, Reifer D, Steece B, Software
Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, August
2000
- Kellner M, Madachy R, Raffo D, Software
Process Simulation Modeling: Why? What? How?, Journal of
Systems
and Software, Spring 1999
- Boehm, B, Egyed A, Kwan J, Port D, Shah A, Madachy R., Using
the WinWin Spiral Model: A Case Study, IEEE Computer, July 1998
- Madachy R, Heuristic
Risk Assessment Using Cost Factors, IEEE Software, May/June 1997
- Madachy R, System Dynamics Modeling of an
Inspection-based Process,
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Software
Engineering,
Berlin, Germany, March 1996
- Madachy R, Modeling Software Processes with System
Dynamics:
Current Developments, Proceedings of the 1996 System Dynamics
Conference,
Cambridge, MA, System Dynamics Society, July 1996
- Madachy R, Measuring Inspections at Litton,
Software
Quality
Assurance, Ridgetop Publishing, Silvertown, OR, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1996 and
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Applications of
Software
Measurement, Orlando, FL, Software Quality Engineering, October 1995
(best
paper award)
- Madachy R, Process improvement analysis of a
corporate
inspection
program, Proceedings of the Seventh Software Engineering Process
Group
Conference, May 1995
Last update 10/12/06
