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25-Mar-97: "What If Your Life Depended on Software?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David M. Rosenberg)
Tue Mar 25 00:53:50 1997
Resent-From: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <RCLARKE@mitvma.mit.edu>
Resent-To: delivery@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 13:37:33 -0500
Reply-To: Rosenberg@MIT.EDU
From: "David M. Rosenberg" <Rosenberg@MIT.EDU>
To: VM-SST@mitvma.mit.edu
F.Y.I.
This event takes place this evening. Sorry for the late notice!
Rocklyn Clarke
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I would like to call your attention to the meeting described below, being
held in Needham on the evening of 25-Mar-97. I've heard this speaker on
this topic and I think it would be worth your time to attend.
/David M. Rosenberg rosenberg@mit.edu 1-617-253-8054
>Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:41:52 -0500 (EST)
>From: Ron Price <rprice@ma.ultranet.com>
>Subject: Boston SPIN 25 March meeting
>
> Boston SPIN March Meeting Announcement
>
>Topic: "What If Your Life Depended on Software?"
>
>Guest Speaker: Watts S. Humphrey, Software Engineering Institute
>
>WHEN: Tuesday, March 25, 1997 at 6:30 PM (refreshments),
> 7:00-8:30 PM (meeting)
>HOST: Boston Area - Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN)
> (Admission Free)
>LOCATION: GTE, Building #5, 77 A Street, Needham, MA
> (Wheelchair accessible)
>
>MEETING OVERVIEW:
>In this talk, Mr. Humphrey discusses the critical nature of
>software and the challenges software developers face. He shows
>that the methods traditionally used to develop quality software
>are ineffective and that better processes are essential.
>
>Mr. Humphrey will present two approaches to these problems that have
>shown substantial benefits -- the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and
>the Personal Software Process (PSP). Experience with the CMM shows
>sharp improvements in product quality and development productivity.
>The PSP introduces software engineers to disciplined personal methods
>which result in engineers producing more accurate plans and developing
>higher quality products. While the benefits vary by individuals,
>quality improvements of five to ten times are normal and productivity
>improvements average about 25%. Mr. Humphrey will conclude with a
>summary of steps required to introduce these methods into software
>organizations.
>
>ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
>Mr. Humphrey is currently an SEI Fellow at the Software Engineering
>Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University. He joined the SEI
>after his retirement from IBM in 1986. While at the SEI, he
>established the Process Program, led the initial development of the
>Software Capability Maturity Model, and introduced the concepts of
>Software Process Assessment, Software Capability Evaluation, and,
>most recently, the Personal Software Process (PSP).
>
>Prior to joining the SEI, he spent 27 years with IBM in various
>technical executive positions including the management of all IBM
>commercial software development. Mr. Humphrey is an SEI Fellow, a
>member of the ACM, an IEEE Fellow, and a past member of the Malcolm
>Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Examiners. His most recent
>books are: Managing the Software Process (1989), A Discipline for
>Software Engineering (1995), Managing Technical People (1996), and
>Introduction to the Personal Software Process (1997). He holds five
>U.S. patents. (SM) Capability Maturity Model, CMM, Personal Software
>Process and PSP are service marks of Carnegie Mellon University.
>
>UPCOMING MEETINGS:
>April- Panel: Tools to Support Project Management
>
>MEETING CANCELLATIONS due to inclement weather will be announced
>on radio WRKO 680 AM, WBZ Channel 7,
>and sent e-mail by 3 PM on day of meeting.
>
> DIRECTIONS
>
>To get to GTE, Building #5:
>
>From Route 128 in Needham, take exit 19A onto Highland Avenue East.
>At first traffic light turn RIGHT onto Second Street. Go 1/4 mile
>(passing hillside Sheraton entrance on right) and turn RIGHT onto
>A Street. Go 1/5 mile and immediately after GTE HQ building on left
>(multi-story glass facade - this is Building 5), turn LEFT into
>Visitor Parking lot. Go around to back of building and you will
>see the entrance. The security guard will direct you to the cafeteria.
>
> * * * * * *
>
> BOSTON SPIN
> -----------
>
> Software Process Improvement Network
>
> Mission
>
> SPIN is a forum for the free and open exchange of software process
> improvement experiences and ideas. The organization will serve as
> a source of educational and scientific information for its members,
> other SPIN organizations and the general software community.
>
> Boston SPIN Sponsors:
> * GTE Government Systems, Needham, MA
> * Raytheon Company, Andover, MA
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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>
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>
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>
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> Ron Price
> Electronic Mail: rprice@ma.ultranet.com
>
> For HARD COPY DISTRIBUTION:
> Maureen Harris
> GTE Government Systems
> Building 5, Dept 7110
> 77 'A' Street
> Needham, MA 02194
> Telephone: (617) 455-3393 Fax: (617) 455-3030
> Electronic Mail: Maureen.Harris@GSC.GTE.Com
>
> For SPIN Related Information <-- separate e-mail distribution
> Charlie Ryan
> Software Engineering Institute
> ESC/AXS (Bldg 1704)
> 5 Eglin Street
> Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2116
> Telephone: (617) 377-8324
> Electronic Mail: ryan@sei.cmu.edu
>
> For Boston SPIN Program information
> Ken Oasis
> Telephone: (617) 563-4197
> Electronic Mail: ken.oasis@fmr.com
