Dr. Robert Charette
Founder, ITABHI Corporation
With over 32 years experience in a wide variety of software, systems
and management positions, Dr. Robert N. Charette is an internationally
acknowledged authority and pioneer in risk management, information systems and
technology, systems engineering, the lean development
& management of large-scale software-intensive systems, and risk
entrepreneurship and innovation.
Robert Charette serves as a senior advisor to a wide variety of
international Fortune 100 companies, high tech consortiums, as well as
government departments on the effectiveness, impacts, and rewards/risks
of their high-technology programs and policies. Charette also acts as
chief risk consultant to financial organizations and companies when
investments, mergers or takeovers are considered. Over his career,
Charette has been involved in dozens of risk assessments on projects
and programs ranging in cost from several million to several billion
dollars each.
Charette is on the IT advisory board of Foundation Ventures, a
New York City-based merchant and investment bank. He is also a Fellow
and director of of the Enterprise Risk Management and Governance
practice for the Cutter Consortium, an IT research information company.
Charette is also a Principle Advisor to ceBerg, a high-technology
incubator.
Charette is the editor of the new ISO/IEEE Standard 16085 on
software and systems engineering risk management, and was the working
group chair of IEEE software risk management standard 1540:2001 which
then became ISO/IEEE 16085. Charette is a founding charter member of
the Project Management Institute's
risk management specific interest group and currently on its risk
management advisory board. Charette served for many years as an expert
advisor to the risk management programs at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (serving as chair of its Risk Advisory Board) and the Software Productivity Consortium,
among others. Charette was also the primary author of the risk
management guidelines and framework for the UK Government; served on the National Research Council’s
post-Challenger select panel evaluating the effectiveness of NASA's
space shuttle’s software safety program; served as an advisor
to the I-CAMP information technology security project of the
Committee on Institutional Cooperation; was chief designer of the DoD
Tri-Service Assessment Initiative; served on the Department of Health and Human Services expert panel on the adoption of electronic health records by small physician practices, and; is the former elected chair and
vice-chair of the National Security Industrial Association's (now NDIA)
Software Committee.
Robert Charette is a frequent international lecturer and author. He is the author of the McGraw-Hill books, Software Engineering Risk Analysis and Management (1989), Applications Strategies for Risk Management (1990), Software Engineering Environments: Concepts and Technology (1986), and co-author of A Unified Approach for the Development of Systems (1987). He also was the primary author of the Introduction to the Management of Risk (HMSO:1993). Along with these, Charette has written chapters or contributions for the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering (1994, 2001), Advances in Computing (1997) and Effective Risk Management: Some Keys to Success (2003).
Charette has written over 75 magazine, journal and other
articles on the subject of risk management, project and program
management, innovation and entrepreneurship. Charette was a long-time
contributing editor to the London-based magazine Software Management, is currently on the editorial board of Software Quality Professional, and is a contributing editor to IEEE Spectrum magazine.
He is also an information resource for CNN, the Wall Street Journal,
Investor’s Business Daily, the Boston Globe, CIO magazine and
several other print and television news outlets.
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