About Us
Elizabeth K. Clark, PhD
Betsy Clark has been involved in the practical application of measurement for predicting, controlling and improving software process and product quality since 1979. She is the President of Software Metrics, Inc, a consulting company she co-founded in 1983. Dr. Clark is a primary contributor to Practical Software Measurement: A Guide to Objective Program Insight. She is a certified PSM instructor and had conducted numerous PSM training classes and workshops within the United States and Australia. Dr. Clark was also a principle contributor to the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) core measures.
Through her affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analyses, Dr. Clark has extensive experience in performing independent cost analyses for government clients. Her experience covers a range of weapons platforms as well as large information systems. Dr. Clark is currently working with Dr. Barry Boehm and Chris Abts to develop and calibrate a cost estimation model for COTS-intensive systems (COCOTS), under sponsorship of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Dr. Clark received her B.A. from Stanford University and her Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley.
Bradford K. Clark, PhD
Dr. Brad Clark is Vice-President of Software Metrics Inc. – a Virginia based consulting company. He area of expertise is in software cost and schedule data collection, analysis and modeling. He also works with clients to setup their own estimation capability for use in planning and managing. He has also helped clients with software cost and schedule feasibility analysis and cost estimation training.
Dr. Clark received his Master’s in Software Engineering in 1995 and Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1997 from the University of Southern California. He is a co-author of the most widely used Software Cost Estimation model in the world, COCOMO II. This model estimates the effort and duration required to complete a software development project
Brad is a former US Navy A-6 Intruder pilot.