Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 16:16:30 -0400 From: John Pustaver Subject: MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Software Quality Group Meeting, Wed, Oct 11, Linda McGinnis, Relentless Application Development Meeting of the Software Quality Group of New England Meetings of the Software Quality Group are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the facilities of Sun Microsystems, Burlington (Driving directions below). MEETING DAY & DATE: Wednesday, Oct 11, 2000 TIME: 6:15 PM HEADLINE: Relentless Application Development SPEAKER: Linda McGinnis, Noble Associates MORE INFO: John Pustaver, 978-443-4254, pustaver@swquality.com LOCATION: Sun Microsystems, Burlington (Driving directions below) DESCRIPTION: Relentless Application Development is Linda's term for continuous, rapid development and deployment of mission critical applications in highly changeable environments. Appropriate applications for Relentless Application Development are: extensions of existing applications, internal applications, and continuous feature enhancement models. This presentation covers: Initial Planning, Risk Management, Scheduling, Execution, People and Teams, Quality Assurance, Documentation, The End Game, and lessons learned in actual implementation. Linda McGinnis is a vice president at Noble Associates, a consulting firm. NEXT MEETING NOTE: The next meeting will be held on Nov. 8, 2000: Eric Patel , Web Testing. 1999-2000 Software Quality Group Calendar Oct. 11, 2000: Linda McInnis, Relentless Software Development Nov. 8, 2000: Eric Patel , Web Testing Dec. 13, 2000: Steve Rakitin The Software Quality Group holds monthly meetings. Topics covered at these meetings have included software testing, inspections, ISO 9000, metrics configuration management, and demonstrations of vendor QA tools. There is no charge. The Software Quality Group meets monthly at 6:15pm on the second Wednesday of the month at the facilities of Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA. Driving directions: From 128/95 Take the Rt. 3 exit heading north (not the Middlesex Turnpike exit if you're coming form the south). From Rt. 3N take the first exit (which is Rt. 62 - Bedford Ave). Turn east toward Burlington. Approximately 0.3 mile after the interchange, turn right onto Network Drive, which leads to the campus on your right. Take the second drive off of Network Drive into the Sun parking lot. Park in the visitor lot and enter the lobby opposite the Sun clock tower. Information about future meetings will be available on the Software Quality Page at http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver. To be on the email distribution list, send a note to pustaver@swquality.com. The Software Quality Group is cosponsored by Sun Microsystems and the ASQ Software Division and all are welcome. There is NO charge. Directors of the Software Quality Group are John Pustaver, Region I Councilor, American Society for Quality Software Division and Paul Ratty, Sun Microsystems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Software Quality Consulting voice:978-443-4254 fax:978-443-6052 pustaver@swquality.com http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver