Austin Software Process Improvement Network (A-SPIN)
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Next A-SPIN Meeting - Tuesday, March 20, 2001,
Presentation - When to Use Java--A View from the Trenches,
presented by presented by Don Shafer, Athens Group
Presentation Abstract
We are now living in a world where everything from employee benefits management, product sales and monitoring factory floor equipment is web enabled. Browsers are ubiquitous: on the desktop, in the PDA, part of our cell phones. Along with broad spectrum data access, your customers want the delivery to be now! Not only have our sources of data expanded but the time to develop applications to collect and process that data has decreased. Has delivering web-based software applications changed the processes and tools behind software development and project management? This presentation will look at how we have moved from the traditional software development tools embodied in C and C++ to true system portability with Java. The pros and cons of selecting and implementing Java will be examined along with the impact of Java on project cost. Real metrics from completed projects will be examined to compare java development experiences with traditional languages.
About the Speaker
Don Shafer is a co-founder, corporate director and Chief Technology Officer of Athens Group, Inc. Incorporated in June of 1998, Athens Group is an employee-owned consulting firm, integrating technology strategy and software solutions. Prior to Athens Group, Shafer led groups developing and marketing hardware and software products for Motorola, AMD and Crystal Semiconductor. He was responsible for managing a $129 million-a-year PC product group that produced the award-winning audio components for the Apple iMAC. From the development of low-level software drivers in yet-to-be-released Microsoft operating systems to the selection and monitoring of Taiwan semiconductor fabrication facilities, Shafer has led key product and process efforts. In the past two years he has led Athens engineers in developing industry standard semiconductor fab equipment software interfaces, definition of 300mm equipment integration tools, advanced process control state machine data collectors and embedded system control software agents. He earned a BS degree from the USAF Academy and an MBA from the University of Denver. In addition, Shafer’s work experience includes positions held at Boeing and Los Alamos National Laboratories. He is currently a lecturer in software engineering at the graduate engineering school at Southwest Texas and an instructor of the University of Texas Software Project Management Certification Program. With two other colleagues he is writing a software practitioners’ guide to project management for Prentice-Hall.
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Austin Software Improvement Network (A-SPIN)
SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) is a forum for the free and open exchange of software process improvement ideas and experiences. The organization serves as a source of educational, scientific and practical information for its members, other SPIN organizations and the general software community. The Austin SPIN is affiliated with the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, the Austin Software Council, the Software Quality Institute and currently has sister SPINs in several cities across the U.S.
SPIN Meeting Times: Tuesday Evenings, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Meeting Location: Pickle Research Campus, Commons Building, Auditorium 1.122
(SPIN meets the third Tuesday evening of each month (excluding the month of July).
SPIN Meetings are held in the small auditorium in the Commons Building on the Pickle Research Campus (PRC) of The University of Texas at Austin. PRC is located on Braker Lane between MoPac and Burnet Road. Enter the gate on Burnet Road, half a block south of the Braker and Burnet intersection. Inside the PRC Campus, the Commons Building is located on the northeast corner of Road A and Granberry Trail.
Directions
Go to the intersection of MoPac and Braker Lane. Go east on Braker and turn right (south) on Burnet Road. Go a half-block and turn right into the PRC gate. Alternatively, you can go north on Burnet from 183 and turn left into the gate. In either case, from the PRC gate continue straight ahead on Read Granberry Trail. The Commons Building is at the intersection
of Read Granberry and Road A. Turn right on Road A and right again to get to the parking lot which is under the water tower on your right.
SPIN Meeting Agenda
6:00 p.m. Dinner (optional)
6:30 p.m. Networking
7:00 p.m. Meeting - Call to Order: Lynn Thurmond, Trimble Navigation, Ltd.
7:30 p.m. Presentation
9:00 p.m. Adjourn
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Financial support for the Austin SPIN is underwritten by individual and corporate subscriptions to the Software Quality Institute.
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