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Aligning Project Management Goals w/ Corporate Goals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Tue Jan 9 18:49:46 2001
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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 01 18:46:20 EST
From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.Edu>
To: discovery@MIT.EDU, delivery@MIT.EDU
Not an endorsement - just FYI...
-Dave
Meeting Announcement
Topic: Aligning Project Management Goals with Corporate Goals
Speaker: Al Davis
When: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 6:30pm - 8:30pm
6:30-7:00 Networking and Round Tables
7:00-7:10 Announcements
7:10-8:10 Presentation
8:10-8:30 Questions and Answers
Who: Everyone (Academia, Government, Industry)
Location: General Dynamics, 77 "A" St., Needham MA.
Info: See our web page, <http://www.cs.uml.edu/Boston-SPIN>
For SPIN info, contact Anna Allison:
<mailto:anna_allison@yahoo.com>
Note: Boston SPIN meetings are free.
No RSVP is necessary.
Abstract: "Aligning Project Management Goals with Corporate Goals"
Software development teams know that a well-defined process is critical
to the success of any project. However, few organizations recognize the
importance of implementing a process to help them make the right
trade-off decisions while in the product planning stage.
Whether doing "shrink-wrap" product development, embedded system
development, custom software development, or in-house IT projects, every
software manager struggles with the difficulty of balancing
requirements, development risks, budgets, schedules, resources, and
impact on revenues and profits. The relationships between these
variables are complex, and finding an optimal balance is nontrivial. And
how can you communicate the results to your management team, peers, and
developers?
This talk explains how to perform trade-off analysis among your software
requirements, schedule and resource constraints, development risks,
projected effects on revenues and profits, market share estimates,
budgets, ROI, etc. The trade-off analysis starts with a list of
candidate requirements, takes you through the triage process (which
considers all of the above factors), and ends with a list of selected
requirements, an optimal allocation of development resources, and a
believable financial plan. It will also show how seeing simultaneous
multiple views of your product is essential so that you can see the
ramifications of any change you make during the process. Software
Process Improvement Network (SPIN)
About the Speaker:
Al Davis is president of Omni-Vista, Inc., a Colorado corporation
dedicated to helping companies prevent software disasters. He was a
member of the board of directors of Requisite, Inc., acquired by
Rational Software Corporation in February 1997. He is a non-managing
general partner and investment advisor for Catalyst InfoTech Development
Fund, LLC, a venture capital fund investing in software startups in the
Rocky Mountain region. He has consulted for many corporations over the
past twenty years, including Boeing, British Telecom, Cadence Design
Systems, Cigna Insurance, Federal Express, Flight Dynamics, Fujitsu,
General Electric, Great Plains Software, IBM, Loral, McDonald's, MCI,
Mitsubishi Electric, NEC, NTT, Rational Software, Rockwell,
Schlumberger, Sharp, Software Productivity Consortium, Storage Tek,
Sulzer Intermedics, and Sumitomo.
Previously, he was a Vice President of Engineering Services at BTG,
Inc., a Virginia-based software startup that went public in 1995. Prior
to joining BTG, he was a Director of R&D at GTE Communication Systems in
Phoenix, Arizona, and Director of the Software Technology Center at GTE
Laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts. He has held academic positions
at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (El Pomar Chair of
Software Engineering and Professor of Information Science), George Mason
University (Acting Chair of Computer Science Department, and Professor
of Software Systems Engineering), University of Tennessee (Assistant
Professor of Computer Science), and University of Illinois at
Champaign-Urbana (Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science).
He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of IEEE Software after serving as
Editor-in-Chief from 1994 to 1998. He is an editor for the Journal of
Systems and Software (1987-present) and was an editor for Communications
of the ACM (1981-1991). He is the author of Software Requirements:
Objects, Functions and States (Prentice Hall, first edition 1990; second
edition 1993) and the best-selling 201 Principles of Software
Development (McGraw Hill, 1995). He is the founder of the IEEE
International Conferences of Requirements Engineering, and served as
general chair of its first conference in 1994. He has been a fellow of
the IEEE since 1994, and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Illinois in 1975.
About the Roundtables:
Roundtables are focused group or "birds-of-a-feather" discussions, with
a facilitator, to stimulate and moderate discussion. Roundtables are
held during the Networking portion of the SPIN meeting. See our web
page, <http://www.cs.uml.edu/Boston-SPIN> to see which topics are
selected for this SPIN meeting.
Directions: From Route 128 in Needham, take exit 19A onto Highland
Avenue East. Take your first right by the Ground Round and take your
second left onto "A" Street.
General Dynamics is the last building on the right. Enter the parking
lot by the General Dynamics sign and come into the building by the
cafeteria entrance, which is located to the left of the main entrance.
There will be a security guard at the entrance. See
<http://www.gd-cs.com/needham.html> for directions.
Cancellations (including weather cancellations): We will notify the
membership via email to the SPIN distribution list, post the notice on
the SPIN web page, and send the cancellation announcement to Channel 7
TV and radio, WRKO AM 680 starting at 3pm.
