Background

The authors have been active in the Endicott Programming Laboratory's Reuse Advisory Board formed in 1990. Patty Stump has been the IBM Endicott site Reuse Champion since 1991, leading the Reuse Board in several approaches to introduce Software Reuse. She's been involved in reuse education, tool evaluation and selection, measurements, local success stories, combining reuse improvement with quality improvement goals and measurements, and exchanging experiences with other IBM Reuse site Champions. Jim Gesacion has been involved as a Reuse Board management representative since 1992 and has lead work groups to define criteria for reusable component candidates, to upgrade the EPL's Reuse Incentives Program, and Reuse advertising, as well as advocating software reuse among the EPL management team.