Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:06:31 -0500 From: Mike Long Subject: SWEQSIG:Fixing Broken Software Engineerng Projects 1/30/2001 This Tuesday night. *** NOTE THE NEW TIME FOR OUR EVENTS is 6:30PM **** Topic: Fixing Broken Software Engineering Projects When: Tuesday 1/30/2001, 6:30-8pm Presenter: James McKim, President and co-founder of ISRG, Inc. (www.isrginc.com) and a member of the Project Management Institute NH Chapter Where: Adaptec, see location below Abstract: Most software engineering efforts fail. Why? Reasons range from scope creep to lack of resources to bad design to bad coding. But some software engineering efforts succeed. Why? Good Project Management. Identified as a reason for project failures and a topic of interest at our well-received March session on Inch Pebbles by Johanna Rothman, this session will explore the discipline of project management as it applies to software engineering. This will cover: * 13 reasons for project failure * The 9 Areas of Project Management? * Software Project Management Techniques and Tools (e.g. WBS, Gantt, PERT, MS-Project, AIMware, WB testing, BB testing, etc.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's our very full lineup through April, 2001: Topic: Beyond MS Project: Designing an Enterprise PM Framework When: Wednesday 2/21/2001, 6:30-8pm (** NOTE - Not a Tuesday!**) Presenter: Steve MacIsaac Where: St. Anselms College in Manchester NH, Cushing Hall (Directions will be provided in February) ABSTRACT: Project management systems were first developed in the 1960's and until five years ago hadn't changed very much. Now with the advent of Program Management systems many people are forecasting that multi project, portfolio, performance management systems will replace accounting systems as the enterprise backbone in the not too distance future. In addition PM systems have a profusion of communications, collaboration and problems solving functions never envisioned just a few years ago. BIO: Steve MacIsaac the President of the Maine PMI Chapter, a Professor teaching project Management at several local Universities, a PM consultant and the designer one of the first enterprise PM systems will take us far beyond the normal limits set for PM systems by MS Project. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic: Web Load Test Tool Bakeoff When: Tuesday 3/27/2001, 6:30-8pm Presenter: Thomas J. Poirier: Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer, Conduciv Inc. (www.conduciv.com) Where: Conduciv (in Nashua on Franklin St., directions to be sent out in March) Abstract: The 6 largest providers of Load Testing tools will be providing information and short presentations on their products, including: Compuware, Mercury, Rational, RadView, RSW, and Segue Bio: Thomas J. Poirier: Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer, Conduciv inc. Formerly of Andersen Consulting, Tom has 18+ years in software development and project management and 10+ years in the Test Automation field with an extensive and widely recognized expertise in automated software testing. He has been internationally published since 1992, and speaks frequently at national and international conferences on automated software testing. He presently serves as President of the New England Software Quality Assurance Forum (NESQAF), has a BS in Mathematics and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and makes his home in Nashua, NH. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic: RapidSQA: Web Testing at the Speed of the Internet Presenter: Eric Patel, CQM, CSQE, QA & Test Manager Nokia Home Communications www.nokia.com/home/index.html When: Tuesday 4/24/2001 6:30-8pm ABSTRACT: RapidSQA: Web Testing at the Speed of the Internet The demand for high quality web sites in business, especially in e-commerce, has led to the reengineering of traditional practices in order to keep pace. Business pressures have mandated the QA organization to test more software, in more complex environments, in abbreviated (and often unrealistic) time frames, while maintaining high quality. Rapid Software Quality Assurance is a modified testing methodology containing best practices for optimizing web testing. BIO: Eric Patel is QA & Test Manager at Nokia where he leads a team that tests digital communications solutions for the home. He has 10 years of experience in software testing, test management, and software quality assurance. Eric earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont. He gave his premiere talk at the Software Quality Group of New England's November 2000 meeting and will also be presenting at BOSCON, NESQAF and STAR East this year. Eric is also a reviewer for Software Quality Professional, an ASQ Certified Quality Manager and a Certified Software Quality Engineer. **** PLEASE add the above to your calendars. These seminars are FREE and we encourage your attendance. All presenters and coordinators are volunteers who appreciate your presence. ============================== Please visit our website at www.swanh.org ============================== To get removed from this email distribution list or to add yourself, send mail to majordomo@lists.mv.net The subject is ignored (to expedite, send mail FROM the account you are adding or removing). In the body of the message put subscribe sweqsig or unsubscribe sweqsig --- Directions to Adaptec The meeting will take place at Adaptec in Nashua - 9 Townsend West (less than 1 mile from their former location in Trafalgar Square). Take Route 3 to Exit 8 This is Somerset Boulevard. Continue to the end of Somerset Boulevard, and make a RIGHT TURN at Ground Round. After the Building 19 on your left, get in the left lane. You will see a Country Tavern restarant on your left. Make a left at the next light, which is Townsend. Go past the first business plaza on your right. About a block or so, you will see the entrance that has signs for Compuware/Numega and Adaptec. Adaptec is in the 3 rightmost pods as you face the business plaza. The entrance is at the pod furthest to the right as you face the building (the middle pod has an Adaptec sign, but that's an employee-only-badge entrance).