Kurt C. Wallnau is a senior technical staff member at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). He was team lead for the SEI's commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)-based systems project, and now leads the predictable assembly from certifiable components project. He designed and taught the CMU/MSE course in component-based development methods, and has over 20 years experience in research and industry.
Scott A. Hissam is a senior technical staff member at the SEI and adjunct faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh. He has over 15 years of software development experience, including project leadership positions at Lockheed Martin and Bell Atlantic.
Robert C. Seacord is a senior technical staff member at the SEI. He has over 17 years of development experience, including extensive work with Enterprise JavaBeans, CORBA, and Web technologies. He bas previously been a technical staff member at the X Consortium and IBM.