June Verner
Senior Principal Research Scientist
Australian Technology Park, Sydney
Biography — Professor June Verner
Previous Positions
Prior to joining NICTA in 2003 as Principal Research Scientist in the ESE research program, Professor Verner was Professor of IS at the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, USA, from 1997 to 2003. Between 1993 and 1997, she held the positions of Senior Lecturer, Reader, and Professor at City University, Hong Kong in the Department of Information Systems. From 1990 to 1993 Dr. Verner was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Systems at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Professor Verner has also spent time as a sabbatical visitor to the London Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine’s Management School, to work with the MERMAID (Metrication and Resource Modelling AID) ESPRIT funded project. She has worked in New Zealand’s Massey University as a junior lecturer in the Computer Science Department; a lecturer in Computer Science and Information Systems, School of Mathematical and Information Sciences (formerly Computer Science Department); and a Programmer-Analyst, in the Computer Science Department.
Qualifications
In 1977, Professor Verner was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. She completed a Graduate Diploma in Social Science (Computer Science) in 1979. She was awarded her Masters of Business Studies in Management Information Systems with First Class Honours in 1982, and a PhD in Software Engineering in 1989, with a thesis entitled A Generic Software Size Estimation Model Based on Component Partitioning. All qualifications were completed at Massey University, New Zealand.
Research Interests
Professor Verner’s research interests include software project management and its effect on project success, software risk particularly with outsoured projects, software measurement, and requirements engineering.
NICTA Projects
Professor Verner is leader of the NICTA RESA project which is investigating requriements engineering for strategic alignment
Collaborations
Professor Verner retains ongoing collaborative research relationship with Dr Narciso Cerpa, University of Talca, chile, Professor Martin Shepperd, Brunel University, UK, and Dr Drew Procaccino at Rider University, Princeton, USA.
Awards
Professor Verner received the award for Best Paper at the Computer Aided Software Engineeering Conference (CASE) in London in 1989, and in 2004 at the Australian Workshop in Requirements Engineering (AWRE).
Appointments
Professor Verner is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Systems and Software and Information and Software Technology.
Professional Memberships: Professor Verner is a member of BCS, and the IEEE.
Selected Publications
J. Drew Procaccino and June M Verner “Software Developers’ Views of End-Users and Project Success” accepted for CACM, Jan, 2007
Ali-Babar, M., Verner, J. M. and Nguyen, P.T., “Establishing and Maintaining Trust in Software Outsourcing Relationships: An Empirical Investigation”, Journal of Systems and Software, accepted Oct 2006.
Karl A. Cox, Steven J. Bleistein, June M. Verner, Alan M. Davis, [2007] Editorial: REBNITA’05 – 1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Business Need and IT Alignment, Special Issue JSS, March Vol 80, issue 3, pp 283-284.
J. M. Verner, W. M. Evanco and N. Cerpa, [2007] “State of the practice: An exploratory analysis of schedule estimation and software project success prediction” Information and Software Technology Volume 49, Issue 2 , February 2007, Pages 181-193, ISSN 0950-5849.
Top 25 most downloaded article, #9 Oct-Dec 2007
J D Procaccino and J Verner, [2006] “Software Project Managers and Project Success: An Exploratory Study” Journal of Systems and Software Volume 79, Issue 11 , November 2006, Pages 1541-1551
Top 25 most downloaded article, #6, April-June, #3 July-Sept , #2 Oct-Dec 2006
J. Drew Procaccino, June M. Verner and Steven J. Lorenzet [2006] "Contributing To and Defining Software Development Success", Communications of the ACM, Vol 49 No 8 August 2006, pp 79-83
S Bleistein, K Cox and J Verner [2006], “Validating strategic alignment of organizational IT requirements using goal modeling and problem diagrams” Journal of Systems and Software Volume 79, Issue 3 , March 2006, Pages 362-378.
Top 25 most downloaded article, #13 Jan-Mar, # 5 April-June, #20 July-Sept, #8 Oct-Dec. 2006
Steven Bleistein, Karl Cox, June Verner and Keith Phalp [2006], “B-SCP: a requirements analysis framework for validating strategic alignment of organizational IT based on strategy, context, and process” Information and Software Technology, Volume 48, Issue 9, 1 September 2006, Pages 846-868.
Top 25 Most downloaded article #2, July-Sept; #10, Oct-Dec 2006.
S Bleistein, K Cox, J Verner [2006] "Requirements Engineering for e-Business Advantage” Requirements Engineering Journal, Vol 11 pp 4-16.
June Verner, Karl A Cox, Steven J Bleistein and Narciso Cerpa [2005], “Requirements Engineering and Software Project Success: An Industrial Survey in Australia and the U.S.” AJIS, Sept 2005, Vol 13 No 1, pp 225-238. ISSN 1449-8618
J. Drew Procaccino, June M. Verner, Katherine M. Shelfer and David Gefen [2005], "What Do Software Practitioners Really Think About Project Success: An Exploratory Study", Journal of Systems and Software Vol 78, pp 194-203.
Top 25 most downloaded articles #4 July –Sept, #4 Oct-Dec 2005, #14 Jan-Mar 2006
K W McCain, J Verner, G Hislop, W Evanco and V Cole, [2005], ” The use of bibliometric and knowledge elicitation techniques to map a knowledge domain: software engineering in the 1990s”, Scientometrics, Vo 65, No 1, September , pp 131-144, ISSN 0138-9130
J Drew Procaccino, June M Verner, Marvin E Darter and William J. Amadio [2005], “Toward Predicting Software Development Success from the Perspective of Practitioners: An Exploratory Bayesian Model” JIT, September, Volume 20, Number 3, Pages 187-200.
K. Cox, K. Phalp, S. Bleistein, and J Verner [2005] “Deriving requirements from process models via the problem frames approach” Information and Software Technology, March, Vol 47 pp. 319-337.
J. Verner and W. Evanco [2005], “In–house Software Development: What Software Project Management Practices Lead to Success? IEEE Software Jan/Feb, Vol 22, No 1, pp. 86-93.
Also republished on CD “Resources for the Software Engineer 2006” by the Certified Software Professional Development Program. Approximately 5000 CDs are distributed each year in mailings to members of the IEEE and the Computer Society, attendees at conferences such as the Systems and Software Technology Conference and to other groups, such as SPINs.
K. Shelfer and J. M. Verner, [2002] “Improving Counterterrorism Analysis: Using Scenarios to Support the Development and Use of Integrated Information Systems” the Defense Intelligence Journal, Volume 11, No 1, Winter, pp.55-70.
J. D. Procaccino, J. M. Verner, S. P. Overmyer and Marvin Darter (2002), “Case Study: Factors for Early Prediction of Software Development Success”, Information and Software Technology, No 44, pp53-62.
J. D. Procaccino and J. M. Verner (2002), “Software Practitioner’s Perception of Project Success: A Pilot Study”, International Journal of the Computer, the Internet and Management, Vol 10, No 1, January-April, pp. 20-30.
J. M. Verner, W. Evanco, K. McCain, G. Hislop and V. Coles [2001], “The Visibility of Software Engineering Researchers Journal of Systems and Software, No 59, October 15, 2001 pp 99-106.
K. Shelfer and J. M. Verner [2001], “A Roadmap For The Successful Implementation Of Competitive Intelligence Systems”, Information Outlook, July, pp 35, 36 38-42, 44 available in 12 different languages at http://www.sla.org/content/Shop /Information/infoonline/2001/jul01/shelfer_verner.cfm#top
M. Khalifa and J. M. Verner [2000], “Developers’ Motivation for Software Development Method Usage”, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 47, no 3, August, pp. 360-369.
J. M. Verner, S. Overmyer, and K. McCain [1999], “In the 25 years since The Mythical Man Month what have we learned about project management?”, Information and Software Technology, December, pp. 1021-1026.
N. Cerpa, and J. M. Verner [1999], “Case Study: The Effect of IS Maturity on Information Systems Strategic Planning”, Information and Management, Volume 4, Number 4, pp. 199-208.
J. M. Verner and N. Cerpa [1997], "Prototyping-Does your Perception Depend on Your Job?" Journal of Systems and Software, January, No. 36, pp. 3-16.
N. Cerpa and J. M. Verner [1996], “Practitioners’ Views of Software Quality”, The International Journal of Computing and Engineering Management, Vol. 4, No. 3, September-December, pp. 1-15.
N. Cerpa and J. M. Verner [1996], "Prototyping: Some New Results", Information and Software Technology, Volume 38, Number 12, December, pp.743-755.
J. M. Verner, K. Toraskar, and R. Brown [1996], "Information Systems Chargeout: Current Practices and Future Challenges", Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 11, No. 2, June, pp.101-117.
Y. Pant, J. M. Verner, and B. Henderson-Sellers [1996], "Effort, Size, and Complexity of Generalized Components in OO Systems for Reuse", Journal of Object Oriented Programming, Vol. 9 No. 2 (March-April), 1996, pp.19-31, 41.
J. M. Verner [1996], "Tools for a Software Engineering Course", Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 19, No. 1, February 1996, pp.65-69.
A. Henderson-Sellers, B. Henderson-Sellers, and J. M. Verner [1995], "Project for Inter comparison of Landsurface Parameterization Schemes: Applications of Some Structured Complexity Metrics", Mathematical and Computer Modeling, Vol. 21, No. 9 (September), 1995, pp.55-59.
A. Henderson-Sellers, B. Henderson-Sellers, D. Pollard, J. M. Verner and A. J. Pitman [1995], "Applying software engineering metrics to landsurface parameterization schemes", Journal of Climate, Vol. 8, No 5, pp.1043-1059.
B. Henderson-Sellers, Y. Pant and J. M. Verner [1993], "Cyclomatic Complexity: Theme and Variations", Australian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 1, No 1, 1993, pp. 24-37.
J. M. Verner "Using Measurement to Improve the Quality of the Testing Process" [1992], The American Programmer, February 1993, pp.36-42.
J. M. Verner and G. Tate [1992], "A Software Size Model", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 18, No 4, April pp. 265-278.
G. Tate, J. M. Verner and R. Jeffery [1992], "CASE as a Testbed for Productivity Improvement", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 35, No 4, April, pp.65-72.
G. Tate and J. M. Verner [1991], "Approaches to Measuring the Size of Application Products with CASE Tools", Information and Software Technology Vol. 33, No 9, October, pp.622-628.
G. Tate and J. M. Verner [1990], "Software Size and Effort Estimation: A Survey of Empirical Validation and Comparison Studies, Journal of Information Technology, 10, pp.12-26.
G. Tate and J. M. Verner [1990], "Case study of risk management, incremental development and evolutionary prototyping", Information and Software Technology, Vol. 32, No 3, April, pp.207-214.
G. Tate, J. M. Verner and R. Hayward [1989], "CASE Requirements for Data-Centred Business Applications", Journal of Information Technology, December.
J. M. Verner and G. Tate [1988], "Estimation of Size and Effort for a Fourth Generation Development", IEEE Software, July, pp.15-22.
This paper was reprinted in datapro - Management of Application Software, Vol. 11 No 1 McGraw Hill, January 1989, pp.AG50 101-109.
J. M. Verner and G. Tate [1987], "A Model for Software Sizing", Journal of Systems and Software, July 1987, pp.173-177.
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