Austin Software Process Improvement Network (A-SPIN)
A-SPIN HAS MOVED TO TUESDAY NIGHTS!
To view Anil Desai's October SPIN presentation on "Performance Optimization for Web Applications" (Acrobat 4.0 document), please click here.
To view Joyce Statz's September SPIN presentation on "Practical Methods to Measure the Success of a SPI Program" (Acrobat 4.0 document), please
click here.
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Click here to read a summary about the August 21st ASPIN meeting on "PI Smorgasbord".
Next A-SPIN Meeting - Tuesday, November 20, 2001,
Presentation: Dispersed Project Teams: Ready or Not, Here They Come!, Presented by Bob Futrell, Motorola
PRESENTATION ABSTRACT:
In the past several years, largely due to the growth of the internet and the availability of sufficient bandwidth, and driven by economic pressures, software project teams have moved from simple telecommuting to be even more dispersed, with team members participating from all time zones, work schedules, and cultures. The recent events affecting the travel industry, and the current lean economic conditions, force even more use of alternate methods to coordinate and control an even more widely dispersed project team toward deadlines and quality products. How do you know they are really working? How do I know they are working on the right things? How do you estimate work and partition it for remote team members? How do you mentor and train remotely? How do you develop a shared development process? How do you handle time delays and deliverable transfers across borders? This talk will explore the characteristics of dispersed teams, how they differ from collocated teams, and provide some tips, techniques, and tools to improve success in managing them.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Bob Futrell is a consultant for Project Management Systems in Austin, TX, providing project management training and consulting on the topics of project management and software quality engineering to business and industry in the Austin area. He is currently working as a Sr. Project Management Consultant in one of Motorola's Austin Semiconductor Operations. He is also serving as a Project Management Master and as a Quality examiner for Performance Excellence in Motorola. Mr. Futrell has a BS in Information Systems Management with Computer Science and Math from the University of Maryland, and a Masters in Telecommunications Management from St. Edward’s University and the University of Dallas. He has achieved certifications as a Certified Quality Manager (CQM) and Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) from the American Society of Quality Control (ASQC), and as a Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI). He has been a principle instructor in the Software Project Management Certificate Program of the Software Quality Institute at the University of Texas at Austin since 1993. Mr. Futrell has over 25 years experience in the computer industry, with 15 years of software development and management experience with Texas Instruments, Inc. and 3 years software development experience with Applied Data Research, Inc. of Princeton, NJ. He has led or managed over 20 software development projects worth more than $1M each, with up to 30 members, spread over the U.S. and 8 foreign countries, with durations of 3 to 24 months, involving technologies from micro-code to Lisp and C, on platforms from networked PC's to midrange and mainframe systems. His projects have covered a wide assortment of accounting, business modeling, communications, and operations control applications using both procedural and object-oriented approaches. Mr. Futrell is interested in the advancement of tools and techniques for project management, and business process design toward higher software quality.
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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 June).
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, LET Quality.
7:30 p.m. Presentation
9:00 p.m. Adjourn
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For more information about A-SPIN, contact: lynn.thurmond@austin-spin.org
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