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The 2008
Software Best Practices
Conference Schedule
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Solving the Puzzle of IT Management
The 2008 Software Best Practices
Conference is about improving the
productivity and quality of your entire software development
and maintenance organization.
It is about leveraging
best practice and software process improvement theory in
order to achieve dramatic business success.
Each conference will feature
a full days program
of expert speakers who have extensively researched
and successfully applied these principles to the development
and maintenance of software.
Their experiences include
annual, double-digit
software cost reductions along with corresponding
service volume increases and software quality increases.
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Understand the Theory!
Learn From Case Studies!
Find Out What Steps You Can Take Right Away!
Network with Industry Leaders and Colleagues!
You will leave this Conference with a
clear, proven approach on how to adapt these lessons to
your own IT organization!
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Ed Yourdon
Author and International IT Consultant
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Why Are There Still So Many Level-1 Organizations After Nearly 20 Years?
Many IT executives are tempted by bold, aggressive strategies to leapfrog their organizations from Level-1 on the SEI-CMM scale to a more "acceptable" level of three, or to a more advanced level of four or five; and indeed, it can be done in a relatively short period of time. Yet the more common situation is no progress on the SEI-CMM scale, i.e. organizations that were firmly entrenched at Level-1 in the early 1990s are still there 15 years later. In this presentation, Ed Yourdon describes the fundamental financial, cultural, and political barriers to SEI-CMM improvement, and provides realistic strategies for overcoming them. Once these initiatives are put in place, a series of "tactical" initiatives can be launched to rapidly improve the organization's software process in order to rapidly climb up the SEI-CMM scale.
Ed Yourdon is an internationally-recognized computer
consultant, as well as the author of over 500 technical
articles and 27 books, including "Byte Wars" ,
"Managing High-Intensity Internet Projects", "Death
March", "Rise and Resurrection of the American
Programmer", and "Decline and Fall of the American
Programmer." His latest book, "Outsource: Competing
in the Global Productivity Race", discusses both current
and future trends in offshore outsourcing, and provides
practical strategies for individuals, small businesses,
and the nation to cope with this unstoppable tidal wave.
2008 Speaking Dates: Orlando, 3/27; Detroit, 4/15; Rochester, 5/15; Philadelphia, 5/22;
Baton Rouge, 11/13
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Capers Jones
Chief Scientist Emeritus of Software
Productivity Research, Inc. (SPR) and Author
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Analysis of New Technologies
The software industry is extremely active in developing new methodologies and technologies. Many of these are effective, but some are not. This presentation by Capers Jones uses a standard analytic approach for evaluating the effectiveness of new and emerging technologies on software development productivity, software maintenance productivity, and software quality. The current version of this presentation uses recent data to analyze Agile development, extreme programming, the ITIL library, SCRUM sessions, Watts Humphrey’s Team Software Process (TSP) and Personal Software Process (PSP), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Six-Sigma for Software. These technologies are evaluated on the basis of the 12 known ways that software projects can be improved. The evaluation method also includes analysis of the optimal size ranges of the projects for using the technology: 1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, and 100,000 function points. In addition, the evaluation method presentation discusses the suitability of the technologies for six types of software project: information technology (IT) projects, systems software, embedded software, commercial software, outsourced software, web software, and ERP-class projects. Recent productivity and quality data is included.
Capers Jones is Chief Scientist Emeritus of Software Productivity Research (SPR). Mr. Jones is the designer of several software cost and quality estimation tools including SPQR/20™, the first commercial software estimating tool to use function points as the basis for sizing source code and other deliverables such as specifications and user documents. He is also an international consultant on software management topics, a speaker, a seminar leader, and a prolific author. As an author, Mr. Jones has written 14 books including his best seller "Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality." His most recent book is "Estimating Software Costs."
2008 Speaking Dates: Orlando,
3/27; Albany, 4/24; Detroit, 10/16; Chicago, 10/21
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Tony Salvaggio
President, Computer Aid, Inc. (CAI)
and Founder, IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
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History and Future of Software
Development
Software process improvement is not just
about the upside and the enormous return on investment.
It is about our basic survival in an increasingly competitive
global IT environment. In this presentation, Tony Salvaggio
provides an historic overview of the manufacturing revolution
and he explains how many of the initiatives to come out
of this transformational shift in manufacturing are precisely
the same initiatives that we will need to undertake within
IT over the next 5-10 years. Topics covered will be productivity,
standard process initiatives, metrics based management,
and the importance of standard estimating.
Anthony (Tony) Salvaggio is CEO and President
of Computer Aid (CAI), an international IT outsourcing
firm that is currently managing active engagements with
over one hundred Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies
around the world. CAI employs over 2000 associates across
the United States, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Salvaggio founded
CAI in 1981 and for the past 25 years, CAI has been leveraging
the lessons of manufacturing in their development and maintenance
of software. Prior to founding CAI, Mr. Salvaggio spent
22 years at IBM. In 2003, Mr. Salvaggio was a recipient
of Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” award. In
2004, he founded the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute.
2008 Speaking Dates: Rochester, 5/15; New York City, 10/30
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Vic Basili
Director, Fraunhofer Center, Univ.
of Maryland
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Building and Using Corporate Intellectual Property in the Software Domain
Software development is often viewed as a research and development activity rather than a competence area that needs to be nurtured, packaged, and evolved as part of an organization’s intellectual property. Such a mind set requires a different paradigm, one in which we can capture, analyze and synthesize experiences and then provide project support based upon what the organization has learned to date. In this presentation, Dr. Vic Basili discusses how this approach is reflected in the Goal/Question/Metric Paradigm, the Quality Improvement Paradigm and the Experience Factory Organization. These models are based on the need for measurement and feedback loops, from product to process and project to project. The end goal is the creation of a learning organization for building software competencies.
Dr. Vic Basili is a former Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Center-Maryland for Experimental Software Engineering. He was also one of the Founders and Principals in the Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL). Dr. Basili was instrumental in transforming software engineering into an empirical science and was an early pioneer in the integration of processes, techniques, methods and tools into the practice of developing software. By applying the scientific method to the software engineering domain, Vic Basili developed concepts like the Goal-Question-Metric method, the Quality-Improvement paradigm, and the Experience-Factory approach to help bring a sense of order to the ad-hoc development so prevalent in the software engineering field.
2008 Speaking Dates: Orlando,
3/27;
Washington D.C., 10/28
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Bob Charette
President, ITABHI Corporation
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Integrating Risk and Measurement: Creating a Future from Present Decisions
Managing risk is not about making future decisions, but crafting the future from present decisions. To create the best possible future from the decisions that presently confront us, we must know where we are, how we got here, and where we are going - something that measurement, when integrated with risk management, can tell us.
Dr. Robert Charette is the President of the ITABHI
Corporation, an international high technology company involved
in information and telecommunications systems management
consulting. He is the author of over 40 articles on software,
systems, and management in addition to the following books:
"Software Engineering Environments: Concepts and Technology"
(1986), "Software Engineering Risk Analysis & Management"
(1989), "Applications Strategies for Risk Analysis"
(1990), "Introduction to the Management of Risk"
(1994) and "A Unified Methodology for Systems Development"
(1987). Several new books on managing risk are in progress.
Dr. Charette is the author of "The Foundations Series
on Risk Management", a 3-volume set of CD training
tools.
Spring 2008 Speaking Dates: Princeton, 4/9; Pittsburgh, 9/9
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Karl Wiegers
Principal Consultant,
Process Impact
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10 Traps To
Avoid with Software Metrics
Implementing a software metrics program
is a challenge. Both the technical and the human aspects
of software measurement can be difficult to manage. This
presentation by Dr. Karl Wiegers examines ten traps that
can sabotage the unsuspecting metrics practitioner. Several
symptoms of each trap are described, along with several
suggested strategies for preventing and dealing with the
trap. By staying alert to these common risks, you can chart
a course toward successful measurement of your software
development activities.
Dr. Karl Wiegers is Principal Consultant with
Process Impact, a software process consulting and education
company in Portland, Oregon. His interests include requirements
engineering, peer reviews, process improvement, project
management, risk management, and metrics. Previously, he
spent 18 years at Eastman Kodak Company as a research scientist,
software developer, software manager, and software process
and quality improvement leader. Karl received a Ph.D. in
organic chemistry from the University of Illinois. Karl’s most recent book is "Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Microsoft Press, 2007)." He’s also
the author of the books "Software Requirements," "More About
Software Requirements," "Peer Reviews in Software," and
"Creating a Software Engineering Culture." Karl has written
more than 170 articles on software development and management,
chemistry, and military history. Karl has served on the
Editorial Board for IEEE Software magazine and as a contributing
editor for Software Development magazine.
2008 Speaking Dates:
Olympia, 5/6
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Donald Reifer
President, RCI
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Making Business
Sense of your Measurement Data
Most organizations capture lots of metrics and measurement data. Unfortunately, few managers know how to use it to influence business decisions. For example, how do they know when they tested enough? As another example, how do you quantify risk and make sense of it? To emphasize these points, Don Reifer will focus on how to use metrics and measurement data to make decisions at the project and enterprise levels that make business sense.
Don Reifer is an internationally-recognized software
consultant. During his over 38 years in the software field,
he has served as a consultant, built businesses, managed
major projects, led recovery teams, served on red and greybeard
teams, prepared proposals and served in executive positions
in both industry and government. He has also served as a
Visiting Associate at the Center for Systems and Software
Engineering at the University of Southern California.Don
has published more than one hundred papers and seven books.
His many awards include the AIAA Software Engineering Award,
the Frieman Award and the Secretary of Defense’s Medal for
Outstanding Public Service.
2008 Speaking Dates:
Olympia, 5/6
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Bob Lawhorn
Chief Technology Officer, Computer
Aid (CAI)
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Transforming IT Management
to Achieve Dramatic Business Success
There are three main challenges that organizations
getting started with a software process improvement program
frequently face: 1) how to develop a workable method for
gathering the metrics needed; 2) how to conduct meaningful
analysis on that data, despite the fundamental comparison
problems that arise across projects, teams, and technologies;
and 3) how to institutionalize and market such a program
so that it will overcome the inevitable resistance of an
organization’s various constituents. In this presentation
by Bob Lawhorn, CTO of CAI, an automated approach to data
collection is outlined that can address these challenges,
at both a technological and a cultural level, while at the
same time institutionalizing standard processes throughout
an organization so that the data we wind up with, in the
end, can be analyzed in a meaningful and consistent manner.
Bob Lawhorn has over 40 years of experience in
software development, software measurement, and software
project estimation. He spent his first twenty years at Bethlehem
Steel working on applications related to steel, mining,
and ship building and his next twenty years at CAI, where
he is credited with the invention of CAI's application development
methodologies and fixed price estimating matrices. Bob is
currently CTO of CAI where he spends most of time consulting
with companies and government agencies on how to implement
application development best practices within their own
organizations.
2008 Speaking Dates: ALL DATES AND LOCATIONS
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David Zubrow
Director, Software Measurement & Analysis
Program, Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
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Analytical Techniques in CMMI High Maturity Practices
The presentation by David Zubrow describes analytical techniques that can be used to implement practices found within high maturity process areas in the CMMI. The presentation relates basic statistical techniques to Organization Process Performance, Quantitative Project Management, Organization Innovation and Deployment, and Causal Analysis and Resolution. Examples are provided.
Dr. David Zubrow manages the software measurement
and analysis program at Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering
Institute (SEI). Since his arrival at the SEI in 1992, Dr.
Zubrow has been a member of the CMMI Product Development
Team and the lead developer of the Software Process Maturity
Questionnaire. He is authorized by the SEI as an instructor
for Implementing Goal-Driven Software Measurement, Introduction
to the CMM, and Lead Assessor Training courses. He is also
an authorized Lead Assessor. Dr. Zubrow serves on the Technical
Steering Group for the DoD Practical Software Measurement
Project and the Executive Steering Committee for the Data
Analysis Center for Software (DACS).
2008 Speaking Dates: Miami, 11/20
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David
Garmus
Founder, The David Consulting Group
and former President, IFPUG
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A Few Simple Metrics Will Assist You In Managing IT Resources
Metrics must be matched to business user needs and be based upon the goals of the process being measured. Metrics should be utilized in decision making and focus on process improvement and strategic requirements. This this presentation, David Garmus will discuss why a continuous, methodical process for comparing performance levels among projects, divisions or organizations is essential to monitor improvements & process changes and to realize best practices. He will identify some quantitative and qualitative assessments that are critical in managing your IT resources.
David Garmus is a Founder of The David Consulting
Group (DCG), an SEI CMMI® Approved Transition Partner and
a PSM Transition Organization that supports software development
organizations in achieving software excellence with a metric-centered
approach. David is an acknowledged authority in the sizing,
measurement and estimation of software application development
and maintenance. He serves as a Past President of the International
Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) and as a member of the
IFPUG Counting Practices Committee. He is also a member
of QAI, PMI (and their Information Systems Specific Interest
Group) SEI and the IEEE Computer Society (and their Standards
Association). David is the author, along with David Herron,
of "Measuring The Software Process: A Practical Guide
To Functional Measurements" and "Function Point
Analysis: Measurement Practices for Successful Software
Projects."
2008 Speaking Dates: Princeton, 4/9; New York City, 5/20; Pittsburgh, 9/9; Detroit, 10/16
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Beth Layman
SEI Authorized CMMI® Lead Appraiser
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Leveraging Measurement in your CMMI, Process Improvement, and Compliance Initiatives
IT executives face many challenges today and need quantitative indicators of their organization’s performance so they can demonstrate compliance, show improvements over time, and make decisions about how to invest and what initiatives to fund. Performance indicators can also help management anticipate and reduce the impact of risks in application development and delivery. This session explains how measurement can play a powerful role at both the IT project/application and at the organizational level and outlines a roadmap for establishing a solid measurement program, based on the concepts of a book called Practical Software Measurement, which has been used as a basis for both the Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) and ISO standards.
Beth Layman is a successful process improvement consultant, facilitator, teacher, and coach with over 25 years of experience in the high tech sector. She is a recognized authority on measurement, a published author, and a popular speaker. Her experience encompasses a wide range of commercial, government, aerospace, and product software organizations. Beth is an SEI Authorized CMMI® Lead Appraiser and is co-author of Practical Software Measurement: Objective Information for Decision Makers. She has experience with Malcolm Baldrige, TQM, CMMI, ISO, Six Sigma, PMBOK, and ITIL but believes in careful and practical application of all models in the “real world”.
2008 Speaking Dates: Rochester, 5/15;
Toronto, 10/2;
Miami, 11/20
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Larry
Dribin
Former Director, Chicago Software Process
Improvement Network (SPIN)
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What Gets Measured Gets Done
An approach to organizational improvement that has been successful focuses on improving an organization’s internal processes through best practices. For this approach to work, a strong measurement system is needed to guide the process improvement. This presentation by Larry Dribin will discuss how software measurement programs can increase the effectiveness of process improvement initiatives.
Dr. Larry Dribin is a consultant with his own consulting firm, the Pearl Street Group, Inc.(PSG). Pearl Street provides process improvement and measurement consulting services to both Information Technology and Business organizations. Dr. Dribin utilizes industry best practice frameworks such as the SEI's CMMI, itSMF's ITIL, PMI's PMBOK and Six Sigma to develop solutions for clients. Dr. Dribin holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology, an MBA from Loyola University, and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. Dr. Dribin is also an adjunct Professor in Software Engineering at DePaul University of Chicago. He is active in local professional groups where he has been a past Director with the Chicago Software Process Improvement Network (C-SPIN) and the Chicago Quality Assurance Association (CQAA) and is a member of ACM, IEEE and PMI.
2008 Speaking Dates: Albany, 4/24; Rochester,
5/15; Chicago, 10/21; Tampa, 10/23; Baton Rouge, 11/13
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Johanna
Rothman
President, Rothman
Consulting Group
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Behind
Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
Great management happens one interaction at a time. Many
of those interactions happen behind closed doors in one-on-one
meetings. So if great management happens in private, how
do people learn how to be great managers? Great managers
consistently apply a handful of simple - but not necessarily
easy - practices. In this presentation, management consultant
Johanna Rothman reveals management practices that she -
and her clients - have found useful and she will help you
learn how to perform them. Bring your big management issues
and get ready to practice the skills you need to solve them.
You will learn how to conduct effective one-on-one meetings,
uncover obstacles to your success, learn when and how to
coach, and how to provide feedback. In this interactive
workshop, Johanna will explore how managers can create an
environment for success, keep progress visible, and coach
their team to be the best they can be.
Johanna Rothman consults, speaks, and writes
on managing high-technology product development. During
her consulting career, she has helped managers, teams, and
organizations become more effective by applying her pragmatic
approaches to the issues of project management, risk management,
and people management. She's helped Engineering organizations,
IT organizations, and startups hire technical people, manage
projects, and release successful products faster. Her action-based
assessment reports have helped managers and teams improve
their projects, products, and financial results. Johanna
has written over 100 articles and papers and is a coauthor
(with Esther Derby) of "Behind Closed Doors, Secrets of
Great Management." She is also the author of "Hiring the
Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds."
2008 Speaking Dates: New York City, 10/30
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Dr. M. Lewis Temares
Vice President for IT & CIO of the University of Miami
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Winning for All the Right Reasons: Leadership Makes the Difference.
This highly entertaining presentation by Dr. M. Lewis Temares, Vice President for IT & CIO of the University of Miami examines how the quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization. He provides real world examples about effectively managing change to improve productivity and competitiveness. By blending practical advice and humorous analogies, Dr. Temares analyzes the pitfalls of toxic leadership while explaining how great leadership propels organizations to win - for all the right reasons.
Dr. M. Lewis Temares is CIO, Vice President for Information Technology, and Dean Emeritus of the College of Engineering at the University of Miami. As CIO, Lew is responsible for the University of Miami’s computing and telecommunications applications and infrastructure. Under Lew’s guidance, UM was an early adopter of quality practices such as Six Sigma and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). To help integrate these and other best practices into his organization, Dr. Temares founded the NGJ Information Systems Institute, which provides technical training courses such as Project Management, Ethical Hacking, ITIL and Six Sigma programs. As a result of Lew’s leadership, as well as his human capital management, the University of Miami's Department of Information Technology was selected as number two in Computerworld’s Best Places to Work in IT for 2007; UM was number one in 2002. This is the sixth year that UM has placed in the top 5 of Computerworld's Top 100.
2008 Speaking Dates: Tampa, 10/23
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Pat
O'Toole
Lead CMM Assessor and Visiting Scientist,
SEI
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Do's and Dont's
of Software Process Improvement
This highly interactive presentation by Pat O'Toole, Lead
CMM Assessor, provides practical advice that will help attendees
jump-start or re-invigorate their process improvement program
and avoid the pitfalls that have bogged down many that have
gone before. Blending real world examples, practical advice,
and humorous analogies, Mr. O'Toole's pragmatic approach
will help participants think more robustly about their own
process improvement program while giving them proven approaches
that they can implement immediately upon their return to
work.
Pat O'Toole is the Principal Consultant at Process
Assessment, Consulting & Training (PACT) where he provides
a full range of services to his process improvement clients.
Pat is one of the most active CMMI lead appraisers, and
has led appraisals spanning all maturity levels, including
one of the largest and most complex CMM Level 5 assessment
conducted to date. He is an SEI authorized instructor for
the "Intro to CMMI" course who has taught this course more
than 40 times in 6 countries. Pat is a Visiting Scientist
at the SEI, and teaches the "Intermediate Concepts of CMMI"
course on their behalf.
2008 Speaking Dates: Miami, 11/20
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Tim Lister
Principal, Atlantic Systems Guild
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We Need It by October: What’s Your Estimate?
It is a cardinal sin of management to let good estimates, made by informed people, be overwhelmed by the strong desires of powerful people. Accurate estimates are the foundation of all critical decisions regarding staffing, functionality, delivery date, and budget.
How do we properly estimate in a world where tradition declares that the deadline is set before requirements are even known? In this presentation, Tim Lister will offer practical advice on dealing with this thorny issue. He will present strategies and tactics for project estimating and will describe his favorite estimating metric, the Estimating Quality Factor (EQF).
Tim Lister is a principal of the Atlantic Systems
Guild, Inc. He is presently involved in assisting organizations
with IT risk management and in tailoring methodologies and
selecting tools for software development groups to increase
project productivity and product reliability. He is also
pursuing work on metrics for making the efforts of software
projects more predictable. Mr. Lister is the co-author of
"Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" as
well as "Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software
Projects."
2008 Speaking Dates: Philadelphia, 11/6; Baton Rouge, 11/13
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David Herron
Founder, The David Consulting Group
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Effective Measures for Project
Managers
Project Managers have many responsibilities ranging from managing customer expectations to directing internal resources towards a successful software build. But their primary goal is to design, develop and deploy software on time, on budget and with a high degree of quality. The key to successfully managing a project is to have an effective set of measures. Equipped with the right set of measures, project managers can properly set expectations and maintain greater control over their deliverables. Measuring and managing the size, the quality and the speed with which the solution is delivered is key to achieving the desired outcome.
David Herron is a Founder of the David Consulting
Group. During the past ten years he has served as a consultant
to Fortune 1000 companies in the areas of software metrics,
software process improvement and applications outsourcing
management. He is an acknowledged authority in the measurement
and estimation of software productivity and quality, specializing
in the determination of software project size, effort and
cost. His engagements have supported clients on the use
of metrics to monitor the impact of IT on the business,
on the advancement of IT organizations to higher levels
on the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity
Model and on the governance of offshore outsourcing arrangements.
Mr. Herron is also the author, along with David Garmus,
of "Function Point Analysis: Measurement Practices
for Successful Software Projects."
2008 Speaking Dates:
Detroit, 4/15; Philadelphia,
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Bradford Clark
Founder,
Software
Metrics, Inc
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Measuring IT Program Outcomes
This presentation discusses a different use of measurement: measuring
the benefits and outcomes of an IT program. Typically measurement is
emphasized during the control and monitor phase of a program. Outcome
measures are taken in the post-deployment phase, after the application
is fielded. Outcome measures are used to show the benefits obtained from
the IT investment and how IT programs align with the company's business
strategy. This presentation will discuss a framework for creating
outcome measures and use a case study to show measurement selection,
resulting benefits and areas for improvement.
Dr. Bradford Clark is the Founder of Software Metrics, Inc. He consults, trains and provides
analysis in the area of software product and process measurement
and specializes in the effects of software process maturity
on software development effort. Brad was a Navy Civil Servant
for 11 years at China Lake, California and before that he
flew A-6 aircraft off and on small aircraft carrier decks
around the world. He currently works with the COCOMO II
Project Team at the Center for Software Engineering at the
University of Southern California and he is a visiting scientist
at the Software Engineering Institute.
2008 Speaking Dates:
Detroit, 4/15; Washington D.C., 10/28
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Dan Galorath
President, Galorath, Inc.
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Reducing Total
Cost of Ownership: Measuring and Managing New and Legacy
Software
Most organizations tend to apply the greatest
measurement rigor in the early states of software development
and deployment. Software innovation is interesting and exciting,
and awareness of cost, schedule, and resource risks is high.
And in fact, management should focus on measurement during
software development and deployment. But measuring and addressing
software performance is equally critical – if not as glamorous
– once software has become established and entrenched in
an organization. While legacy software doesn’t wear out
like a car tire, it can degrade over time with the accumulation
of numerous patches, system and configuration changes, provisioning
and re-provisioning, integrations, and ongoing software
development. Over time, this accumulation of changes can
lead to software instability and a significant increase
in the cost of maintaining legacy systems – up to four times
the cost of initial software development according to some
estimates. The fact is that pro-active measurement and management
(software “well care”) is critical throughout the software
lifecycle and can significantly decrease total cost of ownership.
In this session we will discuss the art and science of information-based
performance measurement throughout the software lifecycle,
including design for maintainability, development of measurement
criteria, collection of metrics, and industry standards,
guidelines, and best practice options.
Dan Galorath is one of the principal developers
of the SEER-SEM™ software evaluation model. His teaching
experience includes development and presentation of courses
in Software Cost, Schedule, and Risk Analysis; Software
Management; Software Engineering; and Weapons Systems Architecture.
His company, Galorath Incorporated, has developed tools,
methods, and training for software cost, schedule, risk
analysis, and management decision support. Among Mr. Galorath's
published works are papers encompassing software cost modeling,
testing theory, software life cycle error prediction and
reduction, and software and systems requirements definition.
Most recently, Mr. Galorath was named winner of the 2001
International Society of Parametric Analysts (ISPA) Freiman
Award. awarded to individuals who have made outstanding
contributions to the theoretical or applied aspects of parametric
modeling. Dan is also the author of “Software Sizing, Estimation,
and Risk Management."
2008 Speaking Dates: New York City, 5/20; Toronto, 10/2; Chicago, 10/21; Tampa, 10/23; New York City, 10/30
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Mike Harris
President, The David Consulting Group
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What Should Businesses Expect from IT?
This presentation by Mike Harris seeks to make current IT best practices accessible and understandable to business managers. Too often, IT projects and operations fail because business expectations are unrealistically high in terms of what can be achieved in a given time at a given quality and budget. And too often, IT providers have unreasonably low expectations regarding the same. What is lacking on both sides is a knowledge of what can be realistically achieved by combining a clearly prioritized set of business needs with well-established IT industry best practices. This presentation provides an overview of COBIT, ITIL and CMMI and explains how the three can work together to help address these issues.
Mike Harris is President of the David Consulting
Group (DCG). He has 23 years of varied management experience
in the computing field including periods in R&D, development,
production, business and academia. Before purchasing DCG,
Mr. Harris was a key executive at Fidelity where he led
two distinct groups within Leveraged Products Development
(LPD): Channels Development and Operations Services. Prior
to Fidelity, Mr. Harris was President of the Banking Solutions
Division at Sanchez. Mr. Harris earned a Bachelor of Science
degree in electronic engineering from the University of
Southampton, England, and a Master of Science degree in
computer-aided engineering from Coventry University, England.
2008 Speaking Dates: Philadelphia, 5/22; Toronto, 10/2
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Herb Krasner
Founder, Software Quality Institute
and Lead CMM Assessor
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The Projected Impact of the CMMI in the World of IT
The CMMI provides guidance on how to gain control of software/systems development and maintenance processes. In this presentation by Dr. Herb Krasner, the CMMI suite, their applications in industry, and reported results of CMMI guided improvement programs will be explored. The speaker will also discuss the impact of the model’s future evolution in the broader IT domain.
Dr. Herb Krasner is a senior faculty member at
the University of Texas at Austin, and the Director of the
Software Engineering Industry Affiliates Program. He is
best known for his leading edge work on modeling the costs
of software quality, reporting the ROI data for software
process improvement, coaching organizational improvement
programs and reporting the results from his empirical studies
of professional programmers. He has published over 55 papers,
articles and book sections and has been lead CMM assessor
on over 40 CMM capability assessments.
2008 Speaking Dates: New York City, 5/20; Pittsburgh, 9/9; New York City, 10/30
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Tom
Love
Co-Founder and CEO of ShouldersCorp
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The Need for Real Time Data and Appropriate Controls
(to Land Software Projects Safely)
Far too many software development projects crash, land behind schedule, or consume more resources than expected. Many of the ones that do manage to land disappoint their users because of a lack of promised functionality, poor performance, unacceptable quality, or a badly designed user interface.
It does not need to be this way. Complex new software applications can be built rapidly within budget and delivered with all the agreed upon functionality with excellent performance, quality and ergonomics. In this presentation, Tom Love presents results from 19 successful projects completed over the last 10 years. The have varied from 2 to 175 people in size.
Tom Love is the Co-Founder and CEO of ShouldersCorp.
Prior to founding ShouldersCorp, he was CEO of WorldStreet
Corporation, Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and Vice
President of IBM Consulting Group (now Global Services).
In 1983 he co-founded Stepstone Corporation, the first Object
Oriented software products company (Objective-C; Software-ICs).
Tom is the author of "Object Lessons: Lessons Learned
from Commercial Object-Oriented Application Development."
2008 Speaking Dates: Princeton, 4/9; Albany, 4/24; Olympia, 5/6; Washington D.C., 10/28; Philadelphia, 11/6
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Gary
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President,
Process-Fusion
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Agile, Lean Six Sigma, and CMMI – A "Low Calorie" Integration
Integration of industry best practice models has become a hot topic. This presentation by Gary Gack will present a "non-denominational" view of three popular improvement models – Agile methods, Lean Six Sigma, and CMMI. The key ideas from each will be described and areas of compatibility and incompatibility will be discussed. A brief case study will be presented that describes an improvement initiative in a smaller (100 person) development organization based on application of the Pareto principle (the "80/20" rule). This "low calorie" initiative adapted the key "20%" of each of these best practices to achieve "80%" of the benefit within a very limited budget.
Gary Gack has more than 40 years of diverse experience
in the software and IT industry, including more than 20
years focused on process improvement. He is current President
of Process-Fusion.net, a consulting firm that provides assessment,
strategy advice, training, and coaching related to the integration
and deployment of software and IT industry best practices.
Mr. Gack holds an MBA from the Wharton School and is a Lean
Six Sigma Black Belt. He also holds ITIL Foundation Certification,
is an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE), and
is a Visiting Scientist with the Software Engineering Institute
(SEI). At the SEI, Mr. Gack has co-authored and instructed
the "Measuring for Performance Driven Improvement 1" course.
2008 Speaking Dates: Detroit, 10/16
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Each
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change.
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“I look for principles, because
if a principle works in one situation it should be
applicable to other situations.
I thought the speakers were outstanding and provided
an excellent array of information. You and
your team deserve great credit for providing an outstanding
Software Best Practices Seminar!”
Jerry Kastning
Division Chief
for the Strategic Planning
and Policy Division of the Operations
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The
best opportunity this year to learn how to dramatically
increase the effectiveness of your ENTIRE software organization.
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Albany, NY
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 Thursday
APR 24, 2008
The Albany Crowne Plaza Hotel
State and Lodge Streets
Albany, New York 12207
Tel: 518-462-6611
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Detroit, MI
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 Tuesday
APR 15, 2008
The Ritz-Carlton, Dearborn
300 Town Center Drive
Dearborn, Michigan 48126
Tel: 313-441-2000
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New York,
NY
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 Tuesday
May 20, 2008
Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers
811 7th Avenue 53rd Street
New York, New York 10019
Tel: 212-581-1000
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Olympia, WA
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 Tuesday
May 6, 2008
Red Lion Hotel Olympia
2300 Evergreen Park Drive
Olympia, Washington 98502
Tel: 360-943-4000
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Orlando, FL
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 Thursday
Mar 27, 2008
Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center
6000 W. Osceola Parkway
Kissimmee, Florida 34746
Tel: 407-586-0000
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Philadelphia,
PA
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 Thursday
May 22, 2008
Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue
Broad and Walnut Streets
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102
Tel: 215-893-1234
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Princeton,
NJ
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 WEDNEsday
APR 9, 2008
Princeton Marriott Hotel & Conference Center at Forrestal
100 College Road East
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
Tel: 609-452-7800
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Rochester,
NY
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 Thursday
May 15, 2008
Genesee Valley Club
421 East Avenue
Rochester, New York 14607
Tel: 585-271-1010
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Baton Rouge, LA
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 Thursday NOV 13, 2008
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Chicago, IL
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Tuesday OCT 21, 2008
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Detroit, MI
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Thursday
OCT 16, 2008
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Miami, FL
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Thursday NOv 20, 2008
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New York,
NY
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Thursday
OCT 30, 2008
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Philadelphia,
PA
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Thursday
Nov 6, 2008
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Pittsburgh, PA
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Tuesday Sep 9, 2008
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Tampa, FL
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Thursday OCT 23, 2008
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Toronto, ON
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Thursday
OCT 2, 2008
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Washington,
DC
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Tuesday
OCT 28, 2008
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Albany, NY
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Tuesday
MAR 31, 2009
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Detroit, MI
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Tuesday
APR 21, 2009
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New York,
NY
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Tuesday
May 5, 2009
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Orlando, FL
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Tuesday
Mar 10, 2009
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Philadelphia,
PA
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Tuesday
May 19, 2009
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Princeton,
NJ
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thursday Mar 19, 2009
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Rochester,
NY
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Tuesday
JUNE 2, 2009
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Tallahassee,
FL
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Tuesday
APRIL 28, 2009
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Tampa, FL
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Thursday
MAY 14, 2009
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Baltimore, MD
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Tuesday
OCT 6, 2009
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Chicago, IL
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Tuesday
Sep 22, 2009
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Miami, FL
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Tuesday
nov 17, 2009
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New York,
NY
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Tuesday
sep 29, 2009
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Philadelphia,
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