Winning Software Teams

Monday, September 18, 2006
6:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.

Join your colleagues at the next meeting of The San Diego Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), featuring Watts Humphrey founded the Software Process Program of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. This meeting is a joint meeting between the San Diego ACM and San Diego SPIN, the Software Process Improvement Network, http://www.sdspin.org.

There will be light snacks courtesy of BAE Systems ... reserve your seat before it's too late!

This meeting will be held on Monday, September 18, 2006 at BAE SYSTEMS, 10920 Technology Pl, in Rancho Bernardo (MAP) from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The local contact there is Debra Roy, 858-592-5821. We will be in room 16250. There will be light snacks and beverages provided courtesy of BAE SYSTEMS. This meeting is FREE.

The meeting is open to the public. Please forward this link to to anyone whom you think may be interested.

Bring your colleagues and friends!

SEAT RESERVATIONS

As we are guests at SPIN's meeting, please use their website to register for this meeting: http://www.sdspin.org/.

Reservations are required for this meeting. Please contact Debra Roy at least one week prior to the meeting if you are not a US citizen, so that your visit can be cleared. Thank you in advance.

ABSTRACT

To do superior software work, developers must work on capable teams that manage and control their own work. These are called self-directed teams. To build and lead such teams, the developers must have the proper training, support, and leadership. When they do, these teams do extraordinary work. In this talk, Mr. Humphrey describes the principles of modern software development work and shows how the Team Software Process (TSP) applies these principles in a way that enables software teams to own their own processes, make their own plans and commitments, and consistently deliver quality products on schedule and for their planned costs. The results show that, with the TSP, team productivity is more than doubled, testing time is reduced from months to days, and finished products are essentially defect free. Furthermore, when developers use the TSP, they find the work more enjoyable and personally rewarding.

Watts will be in town to be the keynote speaker the next morning at the Team Software Process Users Group Symposium at the Omni hotel in downtown San Diego. There will be three days of papers and discussion sessions about TSP by people who have been using it. Watts suggests that you block the day & evening of our meeting and the next two days, too, so you can hear directly from TSP users how the methods he will be talking about work in practice. In addition to his talk and some others from SEI folks, he mentioned there will be talks by people from AIS, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, NAVAIR, Sandia National Labs, and others. You can find more information at SEI TSP Symposium.

Presenter Bio

Watts Humphrey is considered the father of software process improvement and has been called "The W. Edwards Deming of software." He founded the Software Process Program of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a Fellow of the Institute and is a research scientist on its staff. From 1959 to 1986, he was associated with IBM Corporation, where he was director of programming and VP of Technical Development. His publications include many technical papers and eleven books. Some of his recent books are Managing Technical People (1996), Winning With Software: An Executive Strategy (2001), PSP: A Self-Improvement Process for Software Engineers (2005), TSP: Leading a Development Team (2006), and TSP: Coaching Development Teams (2006). He holds five US patents.

Mr. Humphrey was awarded an honorary Ph.D. degree in software engineering by Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in 1998. In 2000, the Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute in Chennai, India, was named in his honor and the Boeing Corporation presented him with an award for innovation and leadership in software process improvement. In 2005 at the White House, the President of the United States awarded Mr. Humphrey the US National Medal of Technology.

MEETING CHARGE: This meeting is free.

RESERVATION POLICY: We strongly encourage you to let us know if you plan to attend this meeting. We expect this meeting to be very well attended, and we may run out of space. In that case, attendees with reservations will be given admittance and seating preference. See our meeting reservations policy for more details.

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