Richard Daley Associates

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Richard has always been involved with software, starting on real-time systems before experiencing the delights of commercial systems, mainframes, etc. Today, Richard is an experienced software engineering consultant able to contribute both technical and management skills to software development projects.

As a member of the British Computer Society (BCS) he was involved with the BCS CASE Specialist Group since its inception, and has served on its committee. The University of North London has, in the past, called on his services as an external advisor for the validation of courses on Software Engineering.

He is involved in the running of two businesses. Richard is a partner in Richard Daley Associates (RDA) which he formed in 1987, and a founding director of Lattice Limited which was formed in 1993. Since then Lattice Limited has been renamed Matrice. For the story behind this change please visit the Matrice web site. Richard acts as an independent consultant for both companies and provides training in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design using the UML.

Recent development work has been bidding, winning and development of a source-code static analyser (MCA) for which Richard acted as Project Manager and Architect. The product was well received by the client and the client has advocated its use on all new projects.

Prior to 1988 Richard worked on complex software-intensive systems for fifteen years in the telecommunications industry for ITT and then Alcatel.

Richard has been in demand as a lecturer and independent consultant since 1988. His advice and guidance on software development is requested by many companies. He has knowledge and experience of both Object-Oriented and Structured methods. His object-oriented experience is comprehensive, with in-depth experience in the Unified Modelling Language (UML) and Rumbaugh's Object Modelling Technique (OMT).

Richard has been involved in the application and use of UML since the publication of version in late 1995, with training delivered in UML from 1996. Richard was responsible for the development of Lattice's OMT course. He has applied and taught OMT since 1993. Structured method experience includes Hatley-Pirbhai and Ward-Mellor for real-time systems, Chen and others for data modelling. These methods have been used with CASE tools including Rational's Rose, Select's Enterprise Modeller, Aonix's Software through Pictures and others.

Through Lattice and now Matrice, Richard has been providing training and consulting in Object-Orientation since 1993, including consulting and training (OOAD, OOD and Smalltalk) to possibly the largest OO project in Europe, if not the world.

Research activities have involved three EU funded projects in which Lattice was a partner. The projects covered: the animation of state models used in analysis and design methods and tools; a project to assess the value of new object-oriented techniques and tools to support the development of Client-Server systems based around Relational databases; and the assessment of the productivity and quality benefits of integrating two methodologies for embedded real-time projects.

Richard has also been heavily involved in the application of software metrics and software process improvement on software projects. He has contributed to the development of the ISO international standard (SPICE) for software process assessment and improvement. He was responsible for the development of Lattice's software process assessment technique and acted as the assessor for Lattice's European projects.

Prior to starting his own business in 1987, Richard's responsibilities had included managing project teams up to forty people in size and controlling a financial budget in excess of two million pounds per annum.

Currently his management skills are used in the development of both RDA and Matrice.

Since becoming an independent consultant in 1987, Richard's clients for RDA, Lattice and Matrice have included: ABB Offshore Systems, Alcatel Telecom, Aonix, BAeSEMA, Bang & Olufsen, Blackwell Science, BP, BT, Compaq, Detica, Ericsson Telecom, Euroclear, ICL Enterprises, Knowledge Support Systems, Knowledgepool, Mott Macdonald, Roke Manor Research, Rolfe & Nolan, Siemens Metering, Teradyne.

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