Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) Meeting Announcement Topic: A Requirements-Based Approach to Delivering E-Business and Enterprise Applications Speaker: Scott Jefferies, Technology Engineering Manager, Technology Builders, Inc. When: Tuesday, 10/17/00, 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 The E-commerce revolution is in full force. Given the rapid amount of change and development in this environment, project teams are challenged to deliver secure, flexible and accurate applications that support the goals of conducting global business. From a process perspective, it is imperative that project teams establish an integrated, requirements-based approach to meet these development challenges. This presentation describes a requirements-based approach that ensures project team's success in: * Gathering and defining requirements * Analyzing requirements * Performing ambiguity reviews * Managing requirements * Defining test completion criteria * Designing and building test cases * Other steps in the process This presentation will demonstrate to the Boston SPIN how a requirements-based approach to delivering E-business and enterprise applications will minimize application failure, avoid revenue loss and maintain loyal customers. And with a proven process in place, organizations can make an even bigger impact on the development cycle, shortening the development timeframe, decreasing costs and significantly improving application quality. Presenter Biography Scott Jefferies is a TBI Technology Engineering Manager with over 25 years of experience in providing business and information management solutions to Fortune 1000 companies. Scott is experienced in the installation and implementation of automated software quality (ASQ) tools on a variety of platforms. Since joining TBI, Scott has been responsible for implementation of both requirements management and automated testing tools, with a focus on the integration of those tools. Scott was also a key player in establishing TBI's requirements-based approach to delivering e-business and enterprise applications, which includes requirements management, test case design, test and defect management, and automated testing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.