Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) Meeting Announcement Topic: The Future through the Past: Using Post Mortems for Process Improvement Speaker: Linda McInnis, Noble Associates, Inc., Acton, MA When: Tuesday, 9/19/00,. 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 Abstract: This talk teaches you how to implement significant process change in fast paced development environments (ecommerce, web, pharmaceuticals) using post-mortem data with simple analysis techniques to pinpoint areas of improvement and create do-able and measurable action plans. Examples drawn from several companies including Millennium Pharmaceuticals, FTP, Lotus Development, AT&T where software was shipped, tested and documented in as little as 3 months. About the Speaker: Linda McInnis is a Vice President of Engineering for Noble Associates, Inc. In this capacity, Ms. McInnis builds departments for client companies that do Quality Assurance, Technical Documentation, Release Engineering, Data Operations and Y2K. She has twenty years of industry experience in these areas both as a consultant, individual and managerial contributor. She is the author of several Software Development Process models and written over 100 technical manuals, white papers, and organizational, process and marketing documents. Ms. McInnis holds a B. S. in Physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and has pursued graduate study in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She is currently listed in Who's Who in the East and Who's Who of Business Leaders and is a member of the ACM and IEEE societies. Ms. McInnis also won Best Paper Award at SM/ASM2000 for her paper Relentless Application Development. She was elected Chair for the Boston SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) for the 2000-2001 season. About the Roundtables: 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.