Desirable Government Action for Software Engineering

1
Desirable Government Action for Software
Engineering

• Kouichi Kishida
• SRA-KYL, Inc
• K2_at_sra.co.jp

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My Own Closed Encounterwith Government

• PPDS - 1975-80 (CASE Development)
• SMEF - 1981-85 (Unix Environmet)
• Walking out from SIGMA (1986)
• CMM - Long debate about What is SPI?
• DynC First Experience with MOE

3
What are Government Officials

• No Long-Term Policy
• Ad hoc style of decision making
• Weak interest in technology
• 3 Major Concerns
• Budget
• Chairs in satellite organizations
• Relation with big companys

4
Tentative Strategy in My Hands

• Effective use of budget
• at least 10 for real technology development
• Put some hidden (real) project behind the scene

5
Long Term Strategy

• Needs for Global Perspective
• Do not to be sensitive about international
  competition
• But to target global needs for technology
• Be careful about evolution of social environment

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What We Need Now

• Long term funding for
• - Very fundamental research in software
  engineering for future
• Targeting 5-10 years later
• Technical infrastructure for future society
• Conceptual foundation of software engineering in
  relation to sociology and/or linguitics