| Date |
Topic |
Location |
| June 4, 2009 |
TwinSPIN Program Planning for Meetings September, 2009 - June, 2010 |
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| May 19, 2009 |
Robert Stoddard - Software Engineering Institute, Mini-Tutorial for Building CMMI Process Performance Models |
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| May 7, 2009 |
Jay Ruuska, GUI Testing |
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| April 2, 2009 |
Overview and Comparison of PMI OPM3 & SEI CMMI |
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| March 5, 2009 |
Mary Beth Chrissis (SEI), Software Process Improvement in a Small Company Startup Environment |
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| February 5, 2009 |
Kelly Weyrauch , How's That Working for You? Stories about Inspecting and Adapting an Agile Process |
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| January 8, 2009 |
Professor Mats Heimdahl (Univ. of Minnesota), Models |
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| December 4, 2008 |
Mary DeFoe (Integral Process Solutions), Measurement, the Elephant in the Room (Perceptions, Mistakes and Mitigation for Measurement Programs) |
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, EE/CS 3-111 |
| November 6, 2008 |
Steve Beise (TRISSENTIAL), Risk is Everywhere - Manage It |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS 3-111, Minneapolis, MN |
| October 2, 2008 |
Betty Schaar (BenchmarkQA), Incorporating Quality Throughout the Lifecycle” |
University of Minnesota, Room EE/CS 3-115, Minneapolis, MN |
| September 10, 2008 |
Pat O’Toole (PACT), Eat Your Own Dog Food – Applying the CMMI to the Process Improvement Project |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS 3-115 |
| June 5, 2008 |
TwinSPIN Program Planning for Meetings September, 2008 – June, 2009 |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS 3-115 |
| May 15, 2008 |
Mary Beth Chrissis (SEI), CMMI Version 1.2 and Beyond |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS |
| April 3, 2008 |
Jamshid Vayghan (IBM Corporation), Enterprise Information Management: Challenges and Opportunities |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS |
| March 6, 2008 |
Geof Lory, Project Management – Discipline or Role |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS |
| February 7, 2008 |
Brett Peterson (VisionShare Inc.), Extreme Programming: From Theory to Practice |
University of Minnesota, Amundson Hall |
| January 3, 2008 |
Jesse Freese (Fissure), Project Estimation |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS 3-111 |
| December 6, 2007 |
Nate Schutta (Travelers), Test Infecting the Legacy Organization – Test Driven Development (TDD) |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS 3-115 |
| November 1, 2007 |
David Gelperin (ClearSpecs Enterprises), Controlling Requirements Risk: A Catalog of Safety Tactics |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS 3-115 |
| October 4, 2007 |
Gary Hansberger (Benchmark QA), Test Automation |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS 3-115 |
| September 6, 2007 |
Pat O'Toole (PACT), Do's and Don'ts of Appraisal Preparation |
University of Minnesota, Room EE/CS 3-111, Minneapolis, MN |
| June 7, 2007 |
Planning Meeting |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS 3-115 |
| May 3, 2007 |
Milinda Rambel Stone (Board of Pensions/ELCA), Formalization of Requirements Engineering / Management - Determining the Right Approach for your Organization |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS 3-115 |
| April 5, 2007 |
Kathy Bassin (IBM), Software Reliability |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS 3-115 |
| March 1, 2007 |
CANCELLED - due to weather |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS Building, Room 3-115 |
| February 22, 2007 |
Watts Humphrey (SEI), Winning Software Teams |
University of Minnesota, Room EE/CS 3-115 |
| January 4, 2007 |
Outsourcing Panel |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS 3-115 |
| December 7, 2006 |
Corey Benish, IT Governance - SOX |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS 3-115 |
| November 2, 2006 |
Mark Paulk (CMU), Agile Methods and Process Discipline |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS 3-115 |
| October 5, 2006 |
Nandan Dasgupta (Wells Fargo) : Lifting the Veil; The Relationship Between Budgeting and Iterative Development: The Value of Corporate Control |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS 3-115 |
| September 7, 2006 |
Sorry - No September Meeting |
|
| June 1, 2006 |
Twin-SPIN Program Planning |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS Building - Room TBD |
| May 4, 2006 |
Darrel F. Untereker (Medtronic) : Judgment - Decision Making Under Uncertainty - Its Relationship to Quality |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS Building - Room 3-115 |
| April 6, 2006 |
Mark Thompson (Target Corp.) : Flavors of Six Sigma and tools to use for business value discovery |
EE/CS 3 - 115 |
| March 2, 2006 |
Keith D. Hornbacher - Project Risk Management -- Very Good Practices |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS Building - Room 3 - 230 |
| February 9, 2006 |
Dr. John Knight - Faulty Human Communications: Its Impact on Dependability And What To Do About It |
EE/CS 3-230 |
| January 5, 2006 |
Mike Whalen - Getting in Really Right--Software Development for Highly Critical Systems |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS Building - Room 3 - 125 |
| December 1, 2005 |
Gary L. Jedynak - Assessing Expertise: A practical way to determine competence as it might benefit the individual programmer and the formation of a more capable team. |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS Building - Room 3 - 111 |
| November 3, 2005 |
Dr. Stephen H. Kan -- Process Strategy and Practices: Achieving Improved Quality and Costs of Quality in a High Maturity Software Organization |
EE/CS Building 3-111 |
| October 6, 2005 |
Dr. Ellen Domb, President The PQR Group -- TRIZ--How can the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving help Software and Systems Development |
EE/CS Building, Room 3-111 |
| September 1, 2005 |
Pat O'Toole - Implementation Experiences of the CMMI |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS Building -2, Room 3-230 |
| July 7, 2005 |
Twin-SPIN Program Planning |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS Building 3-111 |
| June 2, 2005 |
Joyce Statz - Optimizing Software Delivery: Should we Buy, Build, or Outsource? |
University of Minnesota, Lind Hall 305 |
| May 5, 2005 |
Capers Jones - Software Quality in 2005: A survey of the state of the art |
EE/CS Building, Room 3-230 |
| April 7, 2005 |
Larry Putnam Sr. - Why good Measurement, Estimating and Control Techniques are Important for Process Improvement Programs |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS Building, 3-230 |
| March 3, 2005 |
Patrick Coleman - Implementing PSP at Honeywell Aerospace Electronic Systems |
University of Minnesota, EE/CS Building, 3-180 |
| February 3, 2005 |
Dr. Sam Racine - Evaluating the Usability of Web-based Applications: A Case Study |
|
| January 6, 2005 |
Megan Graham - Software Defect Prevention Using Orthogonal Defect Classification |
EE/CS 3-230 |
| November 4, 2004 |
Software Process Development: Using What You Already Know |
EE/CS 3-111 |
| October 7, 2004 |
Proving the Shalls: The Future of Requirements |
Amundson 162 |
| September 16, 2004 |
Building Ships and Building Software: Practicing Virtue in Software Design |
EE/CS 3-180, 6-8pm |
| June 3, 2004 |
Twin-SPIN Planning & Brainstorming |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 3-180 |
| May 20, 2004 |
6 Sigma for software product development and process improvement |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 3-180 |
| April 1, 2004 |
Software Process in a Growing Startup |
Lind Hall 305 |
| March 4, 2004 |
Product Line Engineering: A Process Improvement Perspective |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 3-180 |
| February 5, 2004 |
Panel Discussion: Management Support for Process Improvement |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 3-180 |
| January 8, 2004 |
A panel discussion on the topic: Can Good Software Architecture and Design Really Be Done In An Iterative Manner? |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 230, in the building to the left of our usual one |
| December 3, 2003 |
Metrics - Are We Doing Well or Are We Doing Poorly |
The Clarion Hotel (I-494 & Hwy 100), Bloomington, MN |
| November 6, 2003 |
Project Management |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 3-180 230 |
| October 2, 2003 |
Software Architecture |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 3-230 |
| September 4, 2003 |
Innovation for breakthrough New-business growth |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 3-180 |
| June 5, 2003 |
Twin-SPIN Planning & Brainstorming and IMA Open House and Lecture |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 3-180 |
| May 1, 2003 |
Software Risk Management (or “How to keep your boss off your back”) |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 3-180 |
| April 3, 2003 |
Technology Introduction: "Bringing J2EE into your Established (Slightly Hidebound) Organization" |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 3-180 |
| March 6, 2003 |
Applying Future Search Conferences to Process Improvement |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 3-180 |
| February 6, 2003 |
Concurrent Development – A Better Way to Lead Software Projects |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 3-180 |
| January 9, 2003 |
What’s RIGHT with the CMMI |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg., Room EE/CS 3-180 |
| December 5, 2002 |
Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices |
Akerman Hall, Room 317 |
| November 7, 2002 |
A Do-it-yourself Practical Software Project Assessment Method |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg, Room EE/Csi 3-180 |
| October 3, 2002 |
Adding Bits of Precision to Use Cases |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg, Room EE/Csi 3-180 |
| June 6, 2002 |
Software Architecture |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg, Room EE/Csi 3-180 |
| May 2, 2002 |
Two SEI Presentations: "New Hires Using Experienced Process Guidance" and "Software Quality Assurance: Friend or Foe?" |
Akerman Hall 313 |
| April 4, 2002 |
Lean Programming |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg, Room EE/Csi 3-180 |
| February 28, 2002 |
What Is Excellence? |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg, Room EE/Csi 3-180 |
| February 7, 2002 |
Risks in Projects Using New Technologies |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg, Room EE/Csi 3-180 |
| January 3, 2002 |
The Do's and Don'ts of Software Process Improvement |
|
| December 6, 2001 |
eXtreme Programming |
|
| November 1, 2001 |
Personal Software Process (PSP) Panel and Group Discussion |
|
| October 4, 2001 |
Software Economics |
|
| September 6, 2001 |
User Involvement in IT Software Development |
|
| July 9, 2001 |
Requirements, Traceability, and Tools |
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Bldg, Room EE/Csi 3-180 |
| June 7, 2001 |
Attracting, Motivating and Retaining Software Engineers |
|
| May 3, 2001 |
Documenting Your Processes |
|
| April 5, 2001 |
Certification Debate |
|
| March 8, 2001 |
eXtreme Programming |
|
| February 1, 2001 |
The Evolution of an SEPG (Software Engineering Process Group) |
|
| January 4, 2001 |
The CMMI |
|
| December 7, 2000 |
Getting Out of Our Own Way |
|
| November 2, 2000 |
Intergroup Coordination & Integrated System Management: Product Management Process |
|
| October 19, 2000 |
New Models for Test Development |
|
| September 7, 2000 |
Implementing a Software Process Improvement Plan in a Small Business |
|
| June 1, 2000 |
Checklist Sharing |
|
| May 4, 2000 |
Requirements Capture: Some simple steps towards quality requirements |
|
| April 6, 2000 |
Requirements Management: An Object-Oriented Approach |
|
| March 3, 2000 |
Advanced Software Inspections |
|
| February 3, 2000 |
Cultural Change - How to Make Deep Improvements Stick |
|
| January 6, 2000 |
Best Practices and Introduction to Testing Maturity Model |
|
| December 2, 1999 |
Improvement Model for Small Organizations |
|
| November 5, 1999 |
Postmortems in Software Development Projects |
|
| October 5, 1999 |
Advanced Software Inspections |
|
| September 9, 1999 |
Success Stories on the Journey to Level 2 |
|
| June 3, 1999 |
Star Wars and Process Improvement |
|
| May 9, 1999 |
User Interfaces |
|
| April 8, 1999 |
Tool Automation |
|
| March 4, 1999 |
Measuring Programming Language Effectiveness |
|
| February 4, 1999 |
A Better Alternative to the KPA-by-KPA Approach to Process Definition and Process Roll-out |
|
| January 7, 1999 |
Software Process Improvement 101 |
|
| December 3, 1998 |
Software Process Improvement 101 |
|
| November 5, 1998 |
Moving Towards JAVA Test Automation |
|
| October 13, 1998 |
On the Cart and the Horse:
Putting Process Improvement Activities in the Right Order |
|
| September 10, 1998 |
Integrated Process and Project Management and the Capability Maturity Model |
Dunwoody Institute |
| June 4, 1998 |
Process Improvement From Within - Improving TwinSPIN |
|
| May 7, 1998 |
Developing Practical Software Processes |
|
| April 2, 1998 |
Automated Testing Techniques |
Dunwoody Institute |
| March 5, 1998 |
Testing Issues With Object Oriented Design Software |
Dunwoody Institute |
| February 5, 1998 |
The Problems with Requirements Specifications: What are they and what can we do about it? |
Dunwoody Institute |
| January 8, 1998 |
Organizational Cultures and Managing Change - From Principles to Practice |
Dunwoody Institute |
| December 4, 1997 |
FAA Software Development Guidelines |
|
| November 6, 1997 |
Object-Oriented Technology: What Is It and How Does it impact Software Quality? |
|
| October 2, 1997 |
Defect Prediction |
|
| September 4, 1997 |
Requirements: Enter the Software Development Tar Pit Here |
|
| May 1, 1997 |
The Waterfall is Not All Wet! |
|
| April 10, 1997 |
A Measurement Framework That Works |
|
| March 6, 1997 |
A Measurement Framework That Works |
|
| February 6, 1997 |
Software Metrics - A Panel and Group Discussion |
|
| January 9, 1997 |
Software Metrics - Starting at the Top |
|
| December 5, 1996 |
Return on Investment (ROI) for SPI |
|
| November 7, 1996 |
Automated Testing - Lessons Learned |
|
| October 3, 1996 |
Software Testability Support Model |
|
| September 5, 1996 |
Software Inspections |
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