Back to the Future:
Leveraging your SW-CMM
Improvement
Program to Support CMMI
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2003
Special Time! 2:30
p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Complete Event runs from 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Special Location!
Siemens
Building Technologies, Buffalo Grove
Advance email
registration is required by Wednesday, October 1.
Co-Sponsors:
Chicago Software Process Improvement Network
Chicago Quality Assurance Association
Program
Overview:
This program will
explore and review approaches to use and modify your Software Capability
Maturity Model (SW-CMMâ) experience to support Capability Maturity
Model Integration (CMMI). Specifically it will look at the infrastructure
and practices needed to support increasing your scope and audience with CMMI
and includes an exercise on how to analyze your existing process improvement
assets to support understanding how much can be reused. Information from the recent study at the SEI
on providing interpretive guidance for software organizations using CMMI will
also be highlighted.
CMM and
Capability Maturity Model are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office. CMMI and CMM Integration are service marks of Carnegie Mellon
University.
Information
about CMMI can be found at http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/
Presenter:
SuZ Garcia is a senior member of the technical staff at the Software
Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, working in the Technology
Transition Practices group. From Nov.
1997-May 2001, she was the Deployments Manager for aimware, Incorporated's US
customers, focusing on using their technologies to support organizational
improvement. The 5 years prior to this
were spent at the SEI working in various capacities on all the Capability
Maturity Models the Institute was involved in. She spent the previous 12 years
in multiple improvement-related roles at Lockheed Missile and Space Co.
Education: BA, Ergonomics, 1980; MS, Systems Management, 1988.
Location:
Siemens
Building Technologies
1000
Deerfield Parkway
Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
Directions to Siemens Building Technologies:
From I294 exit West on Lake Cook Road. Follow Lake Cook Road to Milwaukee
Avenue and exit North (right) on Milwaukee Ave. Follow Milwaukee
Ave to Deerfield Parkway and turn West (left) on Deerfield Parkway.
Turn right into the Siemens Building Technologies parking lot at 1000 Deerfield
Parkway. This is on the North side of the street. (You will see 2
buildings connected by a raised walkway).
Parking:
You may use any available parking space in the lot, but empty spaces
will most likely be found at the back (North) end of the lot.
Entrance:
The Lobby and Reception area is at the Front (South East) corner of the
1000 building. This is the building to the East side.
Registration:
Registration will begin on Monday
September 22, 2003. REGISTRATION IS
REQUIRED BY Wednesday, October 1, 2003.
Send an e-mail to registration@cqaa.org
with a subject of "October Program" and include your name, phone, company name, and the name of each person attending.
Siemens employees should register directly with Fabrizio Stortoni (fabrizio.stortoni@siemens.com
or 847-941-6374).
Please register only once for this event.
Note that CQAA has implemented a new auto reply feature to
their registration mailbox that you may use for confirmation of your
registration.
Agenda:
2:00-2:30 Registration &
Networking
2:30-2:45 Welcome and CQAA and C-SPIN Announcements
2:45-5:00 Leveraging your SW-CMM Improvement Program to Support CMMI
5:00-5:30 Closing Questions and
Answers
Details are also posted at www.cqaa.org.
NOTE:
- There is no fee to attend this program.
- Sign-in for this program will start at 2:00
p.m. Please arrive by 2:30 so that we can start the
program promptly.
- There will be a
refreshment break during the presentation.
C-SPIN is made possible through the efforts of its Steering
Committee. The
Steering Committee is composed of: Fred Ballard, Susan Bidwill, Kathy Brown,
Steve Coffman, Alan Cohen, Susan Davidowski, Larry Dribin, Bob Ferguson,
Ross Fraser, Bob Freer, George Gatsis, Tony Kvitek, 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, C-SPIN, or the steering committee, contact George Gatsis at
ggatsis@fsc.follett.com or
(815) 578-7638.
To receive future announcements electronically, send your e-mail address
(include name, address, company, phone) to
Steve Coffman, CSPIN.membership@pscoffman.com.