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Dr. Guenther Ruhe
Software Engineering Decision Support Laboratory University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Tel (403) 220 7692 Fax (403)284 4707 Email: ruhe@ucalgary.ca

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Why Partner with The Software Engineering Decision Support Laboratory?

The Software Engineering Decision Support Laboratory at the University of Calgary includes some of the world's leading researchers in software engineering decision support.

The team partners with selected companies involved in software development to collaborate on projects that research and develop higher engineering standards for software development. The laboratory also works with companies to improve their software development process through training and consultancy.

What results can partner companies expect?

• A solution for software development – a solution that meets most of the inherent objectives and constraints, is reasonable to implement, cost-effective and provides for post-mortem impact analysis. Typically, these solutions are hard to find.
• Decision support for optimising product, process, and quality parameters to create maximal value, for example, the impact of factors such as estimation of product quality after inspections, reinspection decisions, buy-or-make decisions.
• Better understanding of the underlying parameters for software product and process design decisions at the various stages of the software lifecycle, including identification of critical components in software projects.
• Understanding the relationship between technical parameters and enterprise value-creation, for example, which set of requirements can be fulfilled with the given budget and time constraints.
  

Interested companies are encouraged to contact Guenther Ruhe to discuss possible scenarios for working with the research group.