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Current Position
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger is a senior researcher at the RAND Corporation, a not-for-profit company doing high-quality,
high-impact research in the public interest. At RAND, she works on policy and decision-making issues that help organizations
and government agencies understand whether and how information technology supports their mission and goals.
Experience
From 1982 to 2003, Dr. Pfleeger was president of Systems/Software, Inc., a consultancy specializing in software engineering
and technology. From 1997 to 2000, she was also a visiting professor at the University of Maryland's computer science department.
She was founder and director of Howard University's Center for Research in Evaluating Software Technology (CREST), and was
a visiting scientist at the City University (London) Centre for Software Reliability, principal scientist at MITRE Corporation's
Software Engineering Center, and manager of the measurement program at the Contel Technology Center.
She began her career as a developer and maintainer for real-time, business-critical software systems. Thus, she has experience
both with the practical problems of software development and the theoretical underpinnings of software engineering and computer
science. Pfleeger is well-known for her work in empirical studies of software engineering and for her multi-disciplinary approach
to solving information technology problems.
For several years, Dr. Pfleeger was associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Software, where she edited the Quality Time
column, and then associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. From 1998 to 2002, she was a member
of the editorial board of Prentice Hall's Software Quality Institute series. A member of IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society,
and the Association for Computing Machinery, Pfleeger was elected to the executive committee of the Technical Council on Software
Engineering from 1996 to 2000.
Frequently invited to give keynote presentations and tutorials at conferences, Pfleeger was the general chair of the Second
International Symposium on Software Metrics (in London, England) and the program co-chair of the Fourth International Symposium
on Software Metrics (in Albuquerque, New Mexico). She and Dr. Jarrett Rosenberg (Sun Microsystems) chaired the Workshop on
Empirical Studies of Software Engineering, WESS98. Pfleeger was program co-chair of the International Conference on
Software Maintenance, held in Amsterdam in 2003.
Books
Dr. Pfleeger is the author of many books and articles; she has been named repeatedly by the Journal of Systems and Software
as one of the world's top software engineering researchers. Among her books are:
- Introduction to Discrete Structures (with David Straight; Wiley, 1985)
- Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach (with Norman Fenton; Thomson--Brooks/Cole, 1998). Click here for the book's web site.
- Applying Software Metrics (with Paul Oman; IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997). Click here for the book's web site.
- She is a co-author, with Les Hatton and Chuck Howell, of Solid Software (Prentice Hall PTR, 2001), about how
to manage projects building safety-critical software. Click here for the book's web site.
- Security in Computing, third edition, co-authored with Charles Pfleeger, was published by Prentice Hall in December
2002. Click here for the book's web site.
- Her latest book, Software Engineering: Theory and Practice (third edition, Pretice Hall, 2005) was co-authored
with Joanne Atlee of the University of Waterloo. Click here for the book's web site.
Degrees
BA in mathematics from Harpur College, 1970
MA in mathematics from Penn State, 1971
MS in planning from Penn
State, 1975
PhD in information technology and engineering from George Mason University, 1989
Doctor of Humane Letters
from Binghamton University, 2000
Frequently Requested Information
- Click here to read a description of a typical three-day workshop on decision-making for software engineering.
- "Marketing Technology to Software Practitioners," was published in the January/February 2000 issue of IEEE Software. Click
here to link to the IEEE Software article.
- Click here to access related slides and paper, "Understanding and Improving Technology Transfer in Software Engineering," published
in the Journal of Systems and Software, July 1999.
- And click here to find a related paper published by the Data Analysis Center for Software in Rome, New York.
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