Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) Meeting Announcement Topic: "Process Improvement from the Ground Floor - A Case Study" Speaker: -- Alex Marchicelli, NewLane When: Tuesday, 11/21/00, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm 6:30-7:00 Networking and Round Tables 7:00-7:10 Announcements 7:10-8:10 Speaker 8:10-8:30 Questions and Answers Who: Everyone (Academia, Government, Industry) Location: General Dynamics, 77 "A" St., Needham MA. Info: See our web page, http://www.cs.uml.edu/Boston-SPIN For SPIN info, contact Anna Allison, (anna_allison@yahoo.com),781-718-8239 Presentation Overview: Through a case study approach, this presentation explores the successful rags-to-riches story of software development process improvement at a communications giant. It examines the steps necessary to re-shape a less than perfect in-house product development lifecycle into a repeatable, reliable, sustainable process that improved time-to-market and software quality. Mr. Marchicelli will provide the steps that it took to help this company to make the changes necessary to achieve these goals. Through this case study approach, we will explore strategies, tips, and tricks that any software project can use to see improvements to quality and completion time. Alex Marchicelli - Biography Alex Marchicelli is a partner with NewLane, the "Quality on Time" consulting company. Prior to working at NewLane, Mr. Marchicelli spent 12 years at IMI, Renaissance Worldwide, Inc., and Arthur Anderson. He is an accomplished IT professional with expertise in business unit management, full lifecycle software development, client-server project management and development, software quality assurance and testing. Additionally, he has helped Fortune 1000 companies in strategic management consulting specializing in IT strategies. Mr. Marchicelli has an extensive track record in helping companies achieve success in improving software development processes and productivity in order to achieve faster time-to-market, reduce costs, increase ROI, and increase development productivity. He has been involved with some of the largest banks and telecommunication firms in the U.S. such as Bank of America, NationsBank, BankBoston, MCI, Sprint, and Lucent Technologies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roundtables are focused group or "birds-of-a-feather" discussions, with a facilitator, to stimulate and moderate discussion. Roundtables are held during the Networking portion of the SPIN meeting. See our web page, http://www.cs.uml.edu/Boston-SPIN to see which topics are selected for this SPIN meeting. Directions: From Route 128 in Needham, take exit 19A onto Highland Avenue East. Take your first right by the Ground Round and take your second left onto "A" Street. General Dynamics is the last building on the right. Enter the parking lot by the General Dynamics sign and come into the building by the cafeteria entrance, which is located to the left of the main entrance. There will be a security guard at the entrance. . See http://www.gd-cs.com/needham.html for directions. 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.