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Relentless Application Development[presentation] Discover ways to develop and operate a team that can rapidly produce a tested, documented, and deployed application in less than three months! |
Linda McInnis, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Introducing Personal Software Process--A Few (Un)Expected Lessons[presentation] Learn how one company successfully implemented SEI-PSP to a significant part of its software engineering organization. |
Robert Galen, Wavetek Wandel Goltermann
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Critical Components of Asset Management[presentation] Examine how Information Technology (IT) asset management methodologies can reduce your organization's IT budget between five and thirty-five percent. |
Kathy Shoop, Janus Technologies, Inc.
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Guerilla Software Metrics: Leaving the Developers Alone[presentation] This presentation describes an approach to initiating and conducting a metrics program that takes advantage of existing measurement/tracking infrastructure without adding significant extra tasks and reporting responsibilities. |
Scott Duncan, SoftQual Consulting
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Establishing a SEI Capability Maturity Model Level 3 Metrics Program--And Living to Tell About It[presentation] Metrics are foundational to CMM Levels 3, 4, and 5. However, introducing all of the metrics required by CMM Level 3 into your organization can seem like an insurmountable task. |
Greg Parent, EDS
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A Comparison of IBM's and Hewlett Packard's Defect Classification[presentation] In this presentation, Jon Huber examines metrics obtained from categorizing the same set of defects using both IBM's Orthogonal Defect Classification and Hewlett Packard's Origins, Types, and Modes. |
Jon Huber, Hewlett Packard
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User Errors Are Not Software Bugs[presentation] Traditional practices of user feedback are inefficient because they do not incorporate vital information about user errors. |
Avi Harel, ErgoLight Ltd.
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Using Software Measurement to Effect Change[presentation] Using a real-life case study, Jeanette Horan presents how the search for product quality improvement at Lotus led to the realization that the software measurement process needed to be changed to drive organizational priorities. |
Jeanette Horan, Lotus Development Corporation
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Interpreting Graphical Defect Trend Data[presentation] Evaluation of graphical defect trend data can dramatically increase your ability to predict current project quality, schedule milestone compliance, and provide historical data for proper test and development scheduling of later revisions. |
Jim Olsen, Novell, Inc.
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Adaptive Software Development[presentation] Adaptive Software Development (ASD) is targeted for software teams where competition creates extreme pressure on the delivery process. |
Jim Highsmith, Information Architects, Inc.
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Estimation for the Savvy Project Manager[presentation] The most critical estimate in the life of a project is the first estimate at project planning or initiation. |
Douglas Muir, Software Productivity Centre Inc.
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What to Do When the Right Person Doesn't Come Along[presentation] Finding just the right technical person remains a challenge. Waiting for just the right person to come along, or hiring someone with inadequate skills, can often result in late or high-defect projects. |
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Estimating and Tracking Software Size without Lines of Code or Function Points[presentation] Sandee Guidry explains the processes that were used to effectively manage projects at Defense Financial Accounting System (DFAS). |
Sandee Guidry, DOD/DFAS/SEOPE
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Knowledge Management - The Road Ahead for Success[article] The new millennium is in the midst of explosive change, witnessing intense competition among the domestic as well as the international players. Little wonder then, that knowledge management is fast emerging as a core strategy, that organizations worldwide are adapting to manage and leverage organizational knowledge for sustainable business advantage. In this world of rapid change, we have to create new knowledge and ideas constantly, by looking at what we know, and applying it to what we do not yet know. The organizations that are driven by knowledge are the ones that will succeed. The combination of global reach and speed compels organizations to ask themselves, "What do we know, who knows it, what do we not know that we should know?" This paper describes, in a nutshell, that organizations can attain maturity in KM only through healthy coexistence of technology, processes, and people. |
Hemamalini Suresh
September 3, 2002 |
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Writing Better Defect Reports[article] Why do some testers get a much better response from development than others? Part of the answer lies in the defect report. Following a few simple rules can smooth the way for a much more productive environment. The objective is not to write the perfect defect report, but to write an effective defect report that conveys the proper message, gets the job done, and simplifies the process for everyone. This paper focuses on two aspects of defect reports: 1) the remarks or description and 2) the abstract. |
Kelly Whitmill
August 29, 2002 |