Chicago Software Process Improvement Network (C-SPIN)
Meeting - Wednesday, June 4, 2003
William Rainey Harper College, The
Theatre Center of the Business and Social Science Center
(Known as the Auditorium and signed as
Building J) Park in Parking Lot 4 or 5
“Applying Simulation Tools for Quantitative Management of
Software Process Improvement”
Michael
J. Crowley / Motorola, Inc.
Simulation is uniquely
suited to analyzing software process changes. It is fast and inexpensive to
model the baseline process and estimate the benefits of changing the software
development process. This talk will:
Examples of successful
simulation of the software development process will be presented from industrial
applications of the technology. One example will demonstrate activity-based
costing as a method to generate the costs and benefits associated with a given
software process improvement.
Dr. Nancy Eickelmann is currently a research scientist for Motorola
Labs and a Six Sigma Black Belt. She is
leading three research initiatives; the Motorola software and system test
process modeling and simulation research initiative, the Motorola ODC
initiative (in collaborative with Dr. Barry Boehm), and a 4-year NASA
initiative for risk-based analysis to minimize the cost of poor quality. Before
joining Motorola, she was program manager at the NASA/WVU Software Research
Laboratory, located at the NASA Independent Verification and Validation
research facility. While there, she developed Return on Investment (ROI)
risk-based financial models for software and IV&V projects that support
quantifying ROI for multiple budget constraint scenarios and developed earned
value technology to track software project cost and measure cost variance. She
also provided leadership on the strategic planning committee, introducing SWOT
methodology and external surveys to the process. Prior to joining NASA, she was
a member of the Advanced Programs Research Group at MCC where she developed a
measurement framework for guiding the decision-making process in architecture-based
product line development. Dr.
Eickelmann began her research career as a member of the technical staff at
Hughes Research Laboratory (HRL) in Malibu, California while completing her
doctorate at the University of California, Irvine. She was named a Hughes
Doctoral Fellow while working at HRL and received several research awards while
working with Dr. Debra Richardson's Formal Methods and Software Testing Group
at UCI. Dr. Eickelmann has 10 years of experience in software engineering
research that have included international collaborations on research projects
for defense systems, space station applications, space shuttle, and global
software development. Dr. Eickelmann holds a B.S. Finance, M.B.A. Information
and Decision Support, M.S. and Ph.D. Computer Science. Specific focus areas of
her research agenda include:
Michael J. Crowley has been a software professional since 1972. He is currently a Distinguished Member of
the Technical Staff at Motorola, Inc., having previously led a successful
software development consultancy. At
Motorola he works in the Productivity and Quality Management organization
within the Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector (CGISS),
where he specializes in Data Driven Decision metrics, and simulation and
modeling of the quality aspects of software development. He is a Six Sigma Green Belt and is a Black
Belt candidate to be awarded in July.
He is co-inventor of one U.S. patent, and co-inventor of six Motorola
trade secrets, and consults with other Motorola sectors and organizations.
6:00
- 7:00 p.m. Networking (Refreshments courtesy of Group Atlantic,
Inc.)
7:00
- 7:10 p.m. Overview of C-SPIN and
Introductions
7:10
- 8:10 p.m. Presentation
8:10
– 8:30 p.m. Questions and Answers
C-SPIN
is made possible through the efforts of its Steering Committee. The Steering
Committee is composed of: Fred Ballard, Nicole Bianco, Susan Bidwill, Kathy
Brown, Steve Coffman, Alan Cohen, Susan Davidowski, Larry Dribin, Bob Ferguson,
Ross Fraser, Bob Freer, George Gatsis, Donna Miller, Bob Pauwels, Scott
Stribrny, and Lance Welter.
C-SPIN
is a leadership forum for the free and open exchange of software process
improvement experiences and practical ideas. We promote achieving higher levels
of process maturity, software quality and mutual respect. Companies, academic
institutions, government organizations and individuals are invited. There is no
need to register before the meeting, but please check in at the
registration
table. For more information regarding this meeting or C-SPIN, contact Bob
Pauwels at pauwels@attbi.com. To receive
future announcements electronically, send your e-mail address
(include
name, address, company, phone) to ggatsis@fsc.follett.com.