Dr. Tarek K. Abdel-Hamid is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Naval Postgraduate School. Before joining NPS, he spent two and a half years at the Stanford Research Institute. He is an advisor to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (since 1988) on the development of computer-based tools for software project management. He received the B.S. degree in aeronautical engineering from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1972, and the Ph.D. in management information systems from MIT in 1984. His research interests focus on software project management, software reuse, and system dynamics. He has authored or coauthored more than 30 papers on these topics and is the coauthor of Software Project Dynamics: An Integrated Approach (Prentice-Hall, 1991). Dr. Abdel-Hamid is a member of the ACM, SIM, IEEE-CS, and the System Dynamics Society.