Date and Time
Topic
Speaker
Location
Ten Minute Madness
Ten Minute Madness provides a forum for sharing. Anyone who wants to speak will be given 10 minutes (no advertising please). You can schedule a 10 minute block (maximum) ahead of time or when you come to the meeting. You can do a presentation, just talk, or ask others questions to help you out.
Overview of Agile Development in the Real World
Agile methods have been receiving a lot of attention and many small and large organization have began to adopt many of the practices of Agile. These practices promise early, continuous and accelerating return on investment for stakeholders and high degrees of job satisfaction for team members. In this seminar you will learn the basic values and principles of Agile, learn about Scrum as a technique for managing Agile projects and get some insight on how these techniques have been used in the real world on various projects. You'll also see how one practitioner made customizations to fit corporate cultures and expectations.
Process Automation for CMMI
With the release of Version 1.2 of the CMMI Product Suite, significant changes were made to policies governing the conduct and reporting of SCAMPI Class A appraisals. The changes in SCAMPI policies have put pressure on the appraiser community as well as organizations seeking appraisals. This presentation will review the updated appraisal policies and how our approach to these changes will make the SCAMPI appraisal process less painful for everyone involved.Process Automation for CMMI
Increasing Development Productivity through the Spring framework
Jeff Wild, from ASC Information Technology, is a Java Developer with 10+ years of extensive experience in developing back end processes. He will be discussing how the Spring framework can deliver significant benefits for many projects, increase development productivity and runtime performance while improving test coverage and application quality.
EasyWinWin -- A Collaborative Approach to Multi-Stakeholder Requirements Negotiation.
Research suggests that about half of software cost and schedule overruns can be attributed to flaws in system requirements. This talk presents EasyWinWin, a requirements negotiaiton method developed joinly by software engineering pioneer, Barry Boehm, noted requirements engineering researcher, Paul Gruenbacher, and collaboration scientist, Robert O. Briggs. It moves success-critical stakeholders through a sequence of activities that minimize their cognitive load while guiding them through the accommodation of one antoher's key interests. The approach is fairly simple. It draws on well-tested techniques from the domain of collaboration science. Practioners of the approach often report reductions of 75% in the requirements cycle, an order of magnitude increase in the detail of initial requirements, and a 20% reduction rework.
Test First with Groovy.
The talk will focus on both the Test Driven Development Process and the use of the Groovy programming language to facilitate implementation of this process. This presentation will be given by Jim McGill who is a system analyst at Mutual of Omaha . Jim has been using Groovy with test driven development processes for the past year and a half & has 10 years of mainframe experience.
PROCESS Improvement
Our session will focus on successful methods of accelerating the important effort of process improvement using the Accelerated Process Improvement Methodology - Deb Jacobs, Author of book "Accelerating Process Improvement Using Agile Techniques".
09/19/06 11:30 am
The presentation will describe the application of the current CMMI for development to services, specially the development of service systems, and outline additional model content for service provisioning to be included in a CMMI for Services.
Scott Conference Center 6450 Pine Street.
10/17/06 11:30 am
Scott Conference Center 6450 Pine Street.
11/15/06 11:30 am
Scott Conference Center 6450 Pine Street.
08/17/06
Profitstars XP experience report
Say you’ve got a few million lines of legacy code that strikes fear into the hearts of programmers called to maintain it. Small changes are hard and large ones, nearly impossible. What do you do? Stoically accept it? Rewrite?
If you’re Profitstars, you embrace eXtreme Programming, and breath new life into that old code. Come, listen to the story of why and how Omaha's Profitstars cultivated XP.
Sam Tesla, Profitstars
Scott Conference Center at 6450 Pine Street
07/19/06
Pair Programming Kindergarten. It is said that everything we really need to know about pair programming, we learned in kindergarten. Learn how focusing on the smallest possible team – the pair – strengthens the whole team.
Alan Wostenberg and Gary Overgard . Free crayons. Live juggling. Bring a friend.
Scott Conference Center at 6450 Pine Street
02/21/06
What is refactoring? Refactoring is a disciplined technique for improving the design of existing code, one small step at a time. Come listen to our panel descussion on when and how to do it.
Sam Tesla of Profitstars
Blaine Buxton of First Data
Gary Overgard of Northern Natural Gas
Anthony's 72nd and F St.
December 20 2005 11:30
Carfax XP experience report Carfax recently adopted eXtreme Programmming for it's nationwide database providing detailed vehicle history report in seconds. Listen to their experience report on what motivated XP, the implementation challenges, and a recap of the 12 XP practices benefiting this 70+ person development team.
Gary Brown is an XP coach in Columbia Mossouri specializing in Test Driven Development
Anthony's 72nd and F St.
11/15/05 11:30 am
Challenges of Achieving High Maturity with CMMI
CMM Level 3 is rapidly becoming the baseline state for any wishing to succeed in the competitive arenas of state and federal government, health care or Information Technology service providers.
The speaker will show you how to make the transition from an organization with defined processes to a leading edge service provider that has taken the extra effort to make a good process even better and more cost effective.
Norm Mandy, Chairman of the Process Management Group at Software Engineering Solutions, is a retired Air Force officer with over two decades of experience in Quality Assurance, Process Engineering, and Risk Management
Anothony's 72nd and F St.
10/18/05 11:30 am
Planning Poker
Is your team prone to 'analysis paralysis' in estimating work ? Then come to Anthony's at 11:30am for Planning Poker : an eXtreme Programming technique that can help to keep your planning meetings from getting stalled, while keeping all participants enguaged.
Led by Alan Wostenberg of First Data and Gary Overgard of Northern Natural gas
Anthony's 72nd and F St.
September 20 2005
Toolset for Process Management
This is an overview of an integrated toolkit for company-wide process analysis, design, and management. The tool is intended for process owners, process analysts, and business process improvement experts. Internal audit uses it for Sarbanes-Oxley and risk management. It's an excellent tool for Six Sigma used by champions to Black Belts to people new to process mapping.
Terry Craft has 25+ years of business process management experience. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, a Certified Information Systems Auditor, and holds a Master's degree in management information systems
Anthony's 72nd and F
08/16/05
Biomedics XP experience report.
Dr. Anne Fruhling, UNO.
Anthony's 72nd and F
06/21/05 07:00 pm
Agile estimating and planning.
We'll look at why traditional planning fails, how to overcome those problems with a story-driven process, how to estimate and plan with stories, and why agile planning works.
We'll round out the evening with an interactive estimating exercise over pizza that will give you specific techniques to apply in your own work.
Mike Cohn. Mike founded Mountain Goat Software in 1993 to help organizations apply agile development methods to difficult software problems.
Mike is certified in Scrum and author of User Stories Applied and Agile Estimating and Planning.
Northern Natural Gas, 1111 S. 103rd Street, Omaha
September, 28, 2004
4th Tuesday
XP Experience
Report
When: Tuesday, September
28, 2004 7:00 - 8:30 P.M. (4th Tuesday)
Where:
Northrop Grumman Office Building 1406 Fort Crook Rd S. Bellevue NE
68005
Cost: $10.00 at the door, includes food.
Topic:
Panel from Qwest, Northern Natural Gas, First Data on XP
The panel will limit scope to the outer practices on the Ron Jeffrie's circle diagram (whole team, planning game, small releases, customer acceptance{1} ) They might need to limit further, to just the planning game, described here http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/iterative.html
Circles handout http://www.xprogramming.com/images/circles.jpg
Panel
Northrop Grumman
July 20th
The Rational Unified Process has emerged in the last several years to become a leading methodology for managing software projects. RUP unifies the activities of four phases (Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition) across eight disciplines.
Several questions arise as use of RUP continues and grows. Is RUP agile or heavy? Can it be applied to short-term as well as long-term projects? How does it work in the real world? The answer to the first two questions depends greatly on how the third question is addressed - interms of the real life approach. This presentation focuses on a real world setting; specifically on gathering requirements during RUP's inception and elaboration phases.
David Kohrell is the president of Technology
As Promised, LLC, and a professor with Bellevue University in
Omaha, Nebraska. He also serves as the President for the PMI
Mid-Nebraska Chapter (2002-04). In Technology As Promised LLC,
David has created a company focused on developing
technology
leaders and leading technology into organizations.
Anthony's
June 15th
Overview of Six Sigma and the applicability to software process improvement.
Terry Craft, Six Sigma Black Belt
Anthony's
May 18th, 2004
Overview of Model Driven Development
Model-based code generation is rapidly becoming a reality. Standards such as the OMG’s Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) have defined frameworks for generating platform-specific code from platform-independent UML models while tool developers have been making steady progress towards realizing these goals. In this presentation, I will give an overview of MDA and some key concepts followed by a presentation of the Eclipse Modeling Framework, an open source project that supports interoperable models specified in either annotated Java, XML documents, or UML models. Given any one of these models, EMF can generate the other two. Examples using EMF will be given followed by a discussion of the future of MDA.
Dr. Scott Henninger, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Henninger received in Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1993 and a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California in 1983. He has published 50 papers in the general research areas of software engineering and human-computer interaction. His current research efforts focus on using the software process as an organizing centerpiece for software engineering knowledge management that captures feedback for continuous improvement.
Anthony's
March 16th 2004
Panel Discussion on Pair Programming
Panel
Alan Wostenberg - Northern Natural Gas
Gary Overgard - Northern Natural Gas
Steve Cline - First Data Corporation
Blaine Buxton - First Data Corporation
Anthony's
January 20th 2004
Tuesday
Test-Driven Development Presentation
o Description of
Test-Driven Development
o Overview of Unit Testing Frameworks
o
Mechanics of TDD
o Benefits of TDD
o TDD Demonstration
o
Review
o Q&A
Speaker: Gary Brown has over 25 years of software development
and management
experience. Gary has successfully completed
consulting projects with
Time-Life, Experian, National
Research Corp, Technical Services Inc,
B2Port.com, and
InfoUSA.
Salt Valley Software Services is a consulting company in
Lincoln, NE,
focused on programmer productivity training,
software process improvement,
custom software development, and
staff augmentation.
Anthony's
September 16, 2003
Organizational improvement occurs not simply by the successful installation of a new platform, but by the ability to level set the installation with a thorough employee understanding and internalization of the entire business with commonly agreed upon goals and objectives.
The quest to improve organizational performance, whether strategic or operational, requires visibility, alignment and collaboration across the extended enterprise.
The presenter, Mark Lamela, is the Managing
Director of Knowledge
Resource Group, LLC, based in Freehold,
NJ. KRG provides best
practices to maximize utility of
technology in learning; leverage
information representation
and interface design to support
construction of meaning; solve
complex information spaces and problem
solving at all levels
through the use of cognitive and metacognitive
tools; provide
fresh insight to both individual and organizational
change and
productivity through the introduction of learning
community
interactions, internal marketing tools and specific
learning
environments; and KRG employs a cumulative and comprehensive
approach to increase the cost-effectiveness of research and
education.
Anthony's 72nd and F St.
August 19 2003
Mindmapping and Creative Thinking
This presentation covers how to use Mindmapping and Creative thinking to
improve project planning, presentations, communication, memory and many
other uses in professional and personal life.
Bill Cashell, Senior Technical Trainer, First Data Resources
Anthony's 72nd and F St.
No Meeting in July
June 17, 2003
DTN Engineering's procedure from moving things from Develop to Production through QA. We have created a paperless system using Lotus Notes to turn projects in, perform Peer Review, track them during testing and turn them over to Operations when testing is complete.
Tracy Olnhausen. Tracy is the Engineering Quality Assurance Manger at Data Transmission Network.
DTN delivers targeted time-sensitive information to over 150,000 customers via a comprehensive communications system, including: Internet, Satellite,leased lines and other technologies.
Tracy's departments handles QA Testing and all configuration management for the Engineering department.
Anthony's
May 20, 2003
An overview of .Net and it's history. He will discuss the Omaha .Net User Group and how traditional software development practices change in a .Net development world.
Kent Tegels is a Senior Systems Analyst for
HDR, Inc. here in Omaha. His primary focus is
in designing and developing Web-based solutions for
HDR's
Engineers, Architects and clients. Kent has contributed to a
number of publications on Microsoft Technologies such
as .NET, Data
Access, Networking
Technologies and Software Development. He is a Microsoft Certified
Database Administrator and System Engineer. In his
free
time, Kent likes home brewing Beer.
Anthony's
April 15, 2003
We’ve all been trained to focus on one date. One project completion date. Well, come on! Let’s truly manage, or better yet, lead our projects. Instead of one date, give yourself two. Give your project a date range. The two dates represent the poles of a single goalpost. IT project management now becomes Goalpost management, with the primary objective of steering your project to completion within your goalpost. This session suggests and offers a methodology that combines many of the “things that work” from various tools, as well as adds a bit more. You will walk away with a non-bureaucratic, value-adding structure that develops a project goalpost (based upon the needs of each project), defines how to execute and nurture (notice I didn’t use the word control) the project to successful completion within the goalposts. Integrated tools will be introduced that are ready for your use, and provide goalpost management techniques as the project evolves from initiation through closure. Not to worry; you can apply this process regardless of the project scheduling tool you use.
Nikitas Kalantjakos, PMP from DTN Corp.
Anthony's
February 18, 2003
John Sautter of Northrop Grumman will demonstrate three useful project tools:
Risk Radar
USC's COCOMO II
Ms Project 2000 file compare tool
John Sautter of Northrop Grumman
Anthony's
72nd and F Street
January 21, 2003
Insuring the Success of your Projects
Mark Cowan, Capstone Consulting Inc. Mark Cowan is a skilled Senior Manager and Technical Architect with over 17 years experience in Information Technologies. He has extensive experience in multi-tier enterprise distributed computing technologies and is highly skilled in full life-cycle development and project (PMI), process (CMM/SEI) and quality (TQM) management principles. He is a proven leader with the ability to translate business opportunities into tactical and strategic solutions. Mr. Cowan currently is the Practice Director for Capstone Consulting, Inc.
Anthony's
72nd and F Street
December 17, 2002
Agenda
Can you think of one company that has given up on
project management after
implementing it? Why? Because
project management works! The only question that
seems to
linger after a company has gone to project management is when will
we
achieve the full benefits of the system? This program
displays the forces driving
change to project management
systems, and how a value added project management system
with
guidance and support from the Project Management Office (PMO) can
increase
project manager merit and help your company
boost its bottom line.
Specific areas this
presentation will cover include:
- Measuring Key
Competencies of Successful Project Managers
- Measuring Your
Culture’s Project Management Success
- Using the Project
Management Office (PMO) to Enhance Successful
Project
Delivery
Do you want to be able to exceed
your sponsor’s perspective, maintain higher levels
of
customer fulfillment, reduce project release time, identify
roadblocks sooner, and
be the provider your customers
recommend to everyone? If your answer is yes to all
or
any of these, this program is for you!
Brad Poeckes, PMP – Project Solutions, Inc.
Bio
Brad
Poeckes is the President and founder of Project Solutions, a
project management
consulting and training firm based
here in Omaha. Brad has over twenty years of
expertise
incorporating PMI® standards in project leadership, project
office, staff
management, training/mentoring,
vendor/customer relations, process development, and
software
development for government, insurance, home mortgage,
publishing,
telemarketing, credit card processing, vendor
management, and marketing information
industries. Brad
earned his PMP® certification from the Project Management
Institute
(PMI®) in 1998. He has a Bachelor of
Science Degree in Management of Human Resources
from
Bellevue University, and an Associate Degree in Computer Science
from Western
Iowa Tech. In addition to being a member of
SPIN, Brad is a member of Midwest
Information Systems
Professionals (MISP), and the following PMI® organizations:
The
Heartland Chapter in Omaha, Government Special
Interest Group (SIG), and the PMO SIG.
He has served on
the Heartland Chapter and Government SIG Executive Boards for
six
years in several leadership roles including
President, ExOfficio, and co-author of
the Government
Extension of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®).
October 15, 2002
Software development organizations are increasingly turning to software development standards, such as CMM, CMMI, ISO 9000, to achieve improvements in software productivity and quality. These standards provide a framework that specifies the definition, tailoring and evolution of a standard development process, but provide little guidance on how these activities should be achieved. In addition, the models are often idealized and abstracted away from the realities of everyday work practices. Methods and tools are needed that can capture lessons learned in the practice of developing software systems in a manner that allows software developers to draw on the collective experiences of the organization.
BORE (Building an Organizational Repository of Experiences) is a Web-based tool that supports the flexible definition of a wide range of methods and processes, from Agile methods to CMMI and combinations thereof. The BORE framework uniquely provides two levels of process adaptation based on project experiences. The system allows individual development efforts to create an instance of a defined process and tailor it to met project needs. This is accomplished through a rule-based system that formally captures project decisions in a manner that can easily be used to assess project experiences for potential process improvements. Experiences that deviate from the defines process are formally captured in the form of a “deviation rationale” and a set of tasks to accomplish the new process. These experiences can be refined by process personnel and fed back to methodology to refine the defined process to meet the emerging needs of the organization in a principled, controlled, manner.
Dr. Scott Henninger, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Henninger received in Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1993 and a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California in 1983. He has published 50 papers in the general research areas of software engineering and human-computer interaction. His current research efforts focus on using the software process as an organizing centerpiece for software engineering knowledge management that captures feedback for continuous improvement. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation for the past eight years and has also received funding from various industry organizations, such as The Gallup Organization, JD Edwards Company, Union Pacific, and Microsoft. In addition, he founded the Software Design Studios for the JD Edwards Honors Program in Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska. He is President of the newly founded Adaptive Process Technologies company (http://www.AdaptiveProcessTechnology.com), a software process consulting firm that uses the BORE framework to develop flexible development processes that can adapt to the changing needs of organizations.
Anthony's
September 17, 2002
Two production RUP/J2EE projects will be used as a backdrop for discussing lessons learned. RUP development is driven from attacking the risk areas of a project. We will show how selecting J2EE effects the architecture, design, implementation, testing and deployment of the software process. The analysis model will be shown using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) using Rose. The analysis model addresses the initial architecture of a system. The use of J2EE as a framework provides an architectural foundation for analysis, design and implementation. The design model shows all aspects of the eventual implementation, including: JSP, Servlets, EJBs, JDK, user developed Java classes, and interaction with legacy systems. We will cover how we modeled the J2EE implementation using UML and Rational Rose. We will show how design and implementation can address the “*ilities” (scalability, maintainability, etc.). We will show how to break a project into manageable pieces and using the iterative nature of the RUP. Several lessons learned will be covered during the session. The RUP, Rose and J2EE will be presented as a foundation to helping solve rapid development. There will be a discussion of how to best design and implement EJB components for the given domains. The domain-specific decision factors for selecting Stateless, Stateful and Entity Beans will be covered. We will discuss tips/tricks for J2EE development and deployment.
Attendees will gain experience about using the RUP and Rose in a J2EE architecture. They will able to take with them ten concepts that help ensure success developing in this environment.
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Randy Ott: Randy has over 14 years of experience in the IT industry and is well versed in the entire software lifecycle process. His areas of expertise are Object Oriented system design and architecture. Randy has architected, designed and implemented several distributed Object Oriented projects. Randy also teaches and mentors in OOAD, C++, Java, WebLogic Enterprise (CORBA), and WebLogic Server (J2EE/EJB).
Anthony's
August 20, 2002
Session: CMMI issues that need addressing:
Dr. Randy Walters will talk about some of the areas and practices in the CMMI which have been found to be process improvement areas.
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Randy K. Walters, Ph. D.
Dr. Walters is a member of the Engineering Process Improvement Organization of Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Defense Mission Systems (DMS) business unit. He has extensive management and technical experience in the areas of software and systems engineering, operations research and modeling. He has been involved in process improvement and measurement activities in Northrop Grumman IT and DMS since 1989. Dr. Walters has led several successful DMS CMM Level 3 SCEs (latest in December 2001), and has performed over 60 internal CMM assessments within Northrop Grumman IT. He is responsible for leading the DMS activities for a Measurement and Analysis Office, transitioning DMS from a variety of legacy Organizational Standard Processes (OSPs) to a new single OSP, and preparation of the organization for CMMI ML3 and higher SCAMPIs. Dr. Walters is a member of the IEEE, ASQ, ACM, AMS, and SIAM professional societies, and past President of the Omaha SPIN. He has his Ph.D. in Mathematics from New Mexico State University, and was a recipient of a 2-year Sloan Foundation grant in computer science at Clarkson University. Dr. Walters has been a member of a number Computer Science, Mathematics and Software Engineering faculties, including University of Nebraska-Omaha.
Anthony's
July 16,2002
Project Management Back to Basics.
Jim will present the major points from his recent conducted training seminar at the 2002 Infotec Conference.
Jim Fox
Anthony's
No Meeting in June
May 21, 2002
Using a Testing Maturity Model Can Help Improve Your Testing Process
This cutting-edge presentation provides practical methods for evaluating your current testing process and planning improvements. The Software Testing Maturity Model (SW-TMM) is an exciting tool that can help generate significant changes in an organization's testing process. The SW-TMM is a testing process improvement tool that can either be used in conjunction with the Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM) or as a stand-alone tool. The presentation will not only explore the SW-TMM characteristics, but it will also present a process that your organization can use to determine their current testing maturity and develop an improvement plan.
Learning Objectives
1. Learn about Testing Maturity Models and what makes the Software Testing Maturity Model (SW-TMM) unique.
2. Learn how the SW-TMM can be used in conjunction with the Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM)
3. Learn how the SW-TMM can be used as a stand-alone tool to improve the testing process.
Thomas C. Staab is President of an independent consulting firm, Wind Ridge International, that is dedicated to helping clients establish or optimize both their Quality Assurance (QA) and testing organizations and procedures. He has over 35 years experience in quality assurance, and information technology. Before starting his own consulting firm, he designed and implemented several successful Quality Assurance, Information Technology testing and Total Quality Leadership programs at three different companies.
He holds a Master of Science degree in Quality Systems. His consulting work incorporates his extensive quality assurance and information technology experience into every project. Mr. Staab can help organizations optimize their Software Quality Assurance and testing programs no matter what type of software they are dealing with, information technology, telecommunications or web-based application. Mr. Staab has helped clients make significant improvements to their Software Quality Assurance and testing process in all three of these areas.
Mr. Staab is listed in the International Who’s Who of Information Technology. He has currently published over 25 articles (one of which, "Software Quality and Financial Management", earned him Author of the Year Award from the Comptroller magazine).
He has also presented over 50 speeches at regional, national and world conferences. He has developed and taught numerous training courses during his career and has always received excellent evaluations for his training courses and speeches.
In addition to the Master of Science degree in Quality Systems from the University of Dallas, Mr. Staab also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from North Texas State University. Mr. Staab is a certified user of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicatorâ.
Wind
Ridge International
11321 E. Folsom Point Lane
Franktown, Colorado 80116-9105
303-660-3451
303-660-2057 fax
wind.ridge@att.net
Anthony's
72nd and F
Omaha
April 22,2002
Developers and deployers of technology often rely on the "better mousetrap“ approach to the adoption of their technologies. We think that if we simply
develop something beneficial, people will beat a path to our door. But finding or building a good technology is only the first step--getting a technology into use requires additional actions and skills. At the SEI, we've found that it's possible to plan the transition of technologies and improve the likelihood of them getting into use as intended. Eileen Forrester has developed an approach called TransPlant (transition planning technique) that helps you to manage the transition and adoption of technologies. In this session, she'll give an overview of the process, give attendees a chance to try out some of the activities, let you know how TransPlant is being used, and what the lessons are from applying TransPlant.
Eileen Forrester is a senior member of the technical staff in the Software Engineering Management Program (SEPM) at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). She is the lead on TransPlant, a transition-planning technique for technology developers and deployers. Forrester also leads exploratory research in technology change management practices found in high-performing organizations. Before joining SEPM, she was the manager of SEI Publishing for four years; the editor-in-chief of Bridge, the SEI magazine, from 1992-1997; and the communications chair for numerous SEPG Conferences and SEI Symposia. She has more than 20 years of experience in technology transition, communication planning, marketing communication, and managing non-profit organizations.
March 19, 2002
Rapid Prototyping of Applications for Complex, Dynamic Systems
Jay Lange is a leading member of the InterDynamics Development Team from Adelaide, South Australia. InterDynamics has developed a core competency in promoting transparent solutions for complex, dynamic systems. InterDynamics services an Australian and international market for integrated Planning and Analysis tools based on its proprietary (simulation based) software development platform - PlanimateTM. These tools are used by major logistics, shipping, rail,trucking, warehousing and materials handling companies to analyze, plan, monitor and control their large and complex supply chains, the resources that service those supply chains and the materials movements associated with them. The most prominent success has been the Delivery Vehicle Scheduling System for the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Anthony's
72nd and F
Omaha
February 19, 2002
Secure Software: It Starts With Us
Topic:
Although it's easy to question the processes that permitted so many security vulnerabilities in well-known operating systems and applications, how many SPIN members have evaluated the risks inherent in their own software applications?
In this meeting, we'll briefly discuss challenges and current issues in developing and validating secure applications.
Steve has 20-plus years experience in complex systems and is the founder of NuGenSoft, developing AI-based tools to assess and defend against attacks on business information. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, a member of the NEbraskaCERT board of directors, a founding member of InfraGard, and a frequent presenter and teacher of Information Security topics.
Anthony's
December 18, 2001 11:30 -1:00
A 360 Degree Feedback Tool for Project Teams – 45-70 minutes
Successful project managers are proactive troubleshooters. They anticipate and uncover potential problems before they get too big. In this session, practice using a reproducible questionnaire that polls people surrounding the project team. Learn how to get timely information from seven possible stakeholders: customer, sponsor, project manager, team member, team member co-workers, business manager and supplier. Use this information to keep your project on track and stakeholders happy.
Trainer, Speaker, Facilitator
Lee Towe is President of Innovators International, Inc., a 12-year-old training and consulting firm specializing in project management. Innovators, Inc. is one of PMI’s Charter Registered Education Providers. Lee has been managing projects for more than 20 years and delivering training workshops for 12 years. He earned his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification through the Project Management Institute and Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Drake University.
Lee Towe has been a conference speaker in places such as Seattle, Miami, New Orleans, Indianapolis and Kansas City. One national conference had such regard for his speaking that they placed Lee on the program between television personalities George Will and Bryant Gumbel. Participants at a recent project management conference ranked Lee’s presentation at the top among session leaders from six states.
Lee’s book on creative thinking in the workplace, Why Didn’t I Think of That?, premiered at the 1996 American Society for Training and Development national conference. The association’s bookstore sold out twice during the conference. The book continues to sell well.
Anthony's
December 5, 2001
2 Sessions
11:30 - 1:00
and 4:30 - 6
Seminar on Software Reliability Management and Business Centric Testing
Eric Vande Berg and Asvini Kumar, CEO of Thinksoft Global Services
Scott Conference Center on the south campus (AK-SAR-BEN) of UNO
6450 Pine Street, Omaha, NE
Novermber 20,2001 11:30 -1:00
eXtreme Programming: a reasonable systems development process, or spawn of the devil?
Synopsis: A short introduction to the practices of eXtreme Programming will be followed by questions from the audience.
Doug Swartz OmahaXP Group.
Doug has been developing software for more than 20 years. He's written production code in languages from IBM 360 Assembler to Smalltalk, on machines from
mainframes to micros. He's been interested in software development methodologies and processes since the early 1980's. He currently works at a very small
division of a Fortune 200 "global leader in electronic commerce and payment services", using eXtreme Programming techniques.
Anthony's
October 16, 2001 11:30 -1:00
Are You Ready to Rumble with the CMMI?
Abstract: It is becoming increasing clear that the U.S. Government, industry, and academia must dramatically respond to common software and systems engineering challenges that impact our nation’s ability to increase quality, productivity, and competitiveness; and to lower costs, time-to-market, and risks. To address these challenges, the software and systems engineering community has responded with a new capability maturity model, the Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI). When a new model comes along, it is normal for the process group, and even for management, to panic - especially in light of the current economy. Organizations are currently faced with the prospect of having to shift their process improvement attention from a current model, such as, EIA/IS 731, ISO 9000, Six Sigma, or the Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM) to a new CMMI framework and some, if not most, wonder “How and why do I make my organization comply with yet another new model?” This presentation addresses this question by providing quantitative data on what has been achieve to date using the SW–CMM, the rationale for the CMMI, examples of Consortium technologies (automated testing, product-line development/reuse, advanced programming approaches) that are being applied within the CMMI framework, and a road map on how to effectively and efficiently transition to the CMMI.
The Software Productivity Consortium helps its members rapidly advance their systems and software engineering maturity and integrate key life-cycle activities to improve their productivity and time-to-market competitiveness dramatically. Formed in 1985, the Consortium continues to solidify its reputation as one of the nation’s leading institutions addressing software and system engineering, measurement, testing, knowledge management and process improvement. More than 90 member companies and government/academic affiliates including AT&T, BAE Systems, Citibank, Cubic, EDS, General Dynamics, Kodak, Lockheed Martin, Lucent, Mellon, NASD, Northrop Grumman, NCR, Rockwell, SAIC, Sun Microsystems, Unisys, UTC, Xerox and numerous government agencies, and universities
Vice President, Member Programs and New Business. Dr. Nidiffer has used his expertise in aligning an organization's technology and quality objectives to its business needs results from more than 39 years' experience as an engineering executive directing the research, development, test, maintenance, and acquisition of software-intensive systems across a wide range of business domains.
Dr. Nidiffer helped initiate the Consortium's programs in 1986, following a distinguished, 24-year career in the U.S. Air Force (where he retired a full colonel) during which he was instrumental in the foundation of the Software Engineering Institute. In 1990, he launched the Consortium's business initiative in software process improvement, now the largest such program in the world.
In 1991, Dr. Nidiffer left the Consortium to serve one of its founding members, Northrop Grumman, as Director of Systems Design and Development, Data Systems Division, and then as Director of Technical Operations, External Data Systems division, where he directed over 500 engineers and support personnel in the successful development of a variety of C4I, MIS/logistics, and high-speed computing applications. In 1995, he joined Fidelity Investments Systems Company as Senior Vice President of Quality and Systems Assurance, implementing Total Quality Management, best-in-class software engineering, large test environments, and quality assurance practices. He rejoined the Consortium in 1997 as the Vice President of Business Development and has led the Consortium to a 20% growth rate per year and in 2001 was given additional responsibility for the Consortium’s Member Programs operation.
A Professor Emeritus of the Defense Systems Management College and adjunct graduate engineering professor at George Mason University, Dr. Nidiffer has been widely published in the systems and software engineering community. He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), National Security Industrial Association (NSIA), and the Air Force Society.
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