Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 21:15:41 -0500 From: John Pustaver Subject: March SPIN Meeting; Note date and location change for joint meeting Note: This month's SPIN meeting has a different date, location, and format from the usual SPIN meeting. This month's meeting is being held jointly with ASQ Boston Section on THURSDAY March 16 at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Burlington, MA. Dinner is offered at 6:30 p.m. for $25 payable at the door. If you don't want dinner, plan to come at 7:30 for the presentation by Jim Driscoll, "Ensuring Clients Achieve Superior Value In the Digital Economy ." Boston ASQ & Boston Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) Joint Meeting Announcement Topic: Ensuring Clients Achieve Superior Value In the Digital Economy Speaker: Jim Driscoll When: THURSDAY, March 16, 2000, 5:30pm-8:30pm (joint meeting with Boston section, ASQ) 5:30 PM Socializing and Networking 6:30 PM Dinner and announcements 7:30 PM Jim Driscoll: Ensuring Clients Achieve Superior Value In the Digital Economy 8:15-8:30 Questions and Answers COST: $25.00 (Includes dinner and speaker) RESERVATIONS: Call before March 13, 617-423-2772. If you intend to have dinner, please call 617-423-2772. Please do not RSVP for dinner if you are not planning to have dinner. If you intend to arrive at about 7:30pm just for the speaker, please email Johanna at jr@jrothman.com or call Johanna at 781-641-4046. Who: Everyone (Academia, Government, Industry) Location: Wyndham Garden Hotel, Burlington, MA Info: See our web page, http://www.cs.uml.edu/Boston-SPIN For SPIN info, contact Johanna Rothman, 781-641-4046, or jr@jrothman.com Abstract: E-commerce is changing the way we conduct business. That is why EDS is reinventing itself by changing its business model, restructuring, and aggressively cutting its cost structure. By the time this metamorphosis is complete, EDS will literally become a brand new organization. Everything will change, except for one thing - the strategy for process improvement. CMM based process improvement has long been recognized within EDS as the engine for increasing software developers' productivity, reducing software defects, and reducing time-to-market, which is the key to turn this vision into a reality. This presentation will take you through EDS' journey in implementing quality improvement, the challenges faced, and the evolution of a global process improvement strategy, which is rapidly bringing about positive business impacts, and higher maturity levels, for both EDS and its clients. About the Speaker: James R. Driscoll is division vice president for EDS' Wireless Division. Mr. Driscoll is responsible for planning, business development, and delivery of EDS offerings to wireless carriers in North America. Jim has held senior management positions in EDS, BRAE Corp., Bell Atlantic Mobile, and Appex. Mr. Driscoll is a frequent presenter at industry forums. He received a BA in Mathematics from the University of Maine in 1975. We will not have roundtables this month. Look for them to resume next month. Directions to the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Burlington: From Route 128 in Burlington, take exit 32B and turn east, onto Middlesex Turnpike. Take the first left turn onto Wheeler Rd. The Wyndham Garden is your second driveway, 30 Wheeler Rd. Cancellations (including weather cancellations): We will notify the membership via email to the SPIN distribution list, post the notice on the SPIN web page, and send the cancellation announcement to Channel 7 TV and radio, WRKO AM 680 starting at 3pm. SPIN Sponsors: General Dynamics Communications Systems, Needham, MA, http://www.gd-cs.com/needham.html Raytheon Corp., Lexington, MA, http://www.raytheon.com Edelman & Associates, http://www.edeltech.com We thank the Computer Science department of UMass-Lowell for providing support and hosting our web page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Software Quality Consulting voice:978-443-4254 fax:978-443-6052 pustaver@swquality.com http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver