Kevin C. Dittman is an Associative Professor in the Computer Technology department at Purdue University. He has been with the University for ten years and is responsible for teaching systems analysis and design, and project management courses, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is a co-author of the textbook titled Systems Analysis & Design Methods by Whitten, Bentley and Dittman and has published numerous other scholarly papers on systems analysis and design, and project management. Professor Dittman has over 22 years of industrial experience in the information technology field all relating to systems development and has been serving as a principle consultant to Lockheed Martin the past seven years. Professor Dittmans current research and teaching interests are: systems analysis and design processes and techniques, software development quality and productivity methods, and information systems project management.