Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 09:46:39 -0400 From: John Pustaver Subject: MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Software Quality Group Meeting, Wed, Jun 13, 2001: Sam Docknevich, e-Business Performance Best Practices 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, Jun 13, 2001 TIME: 6:15 PM HEADLINE: e-Business Performance Best Practices Speaker: Sam Docknevich MORE INFO: John Pustaver, 978-443-4254, pustaver@swquality.com LOCATION: Sun Microsystems, Burlington (Driving directions below) DESCRIPTION: In the e-business world, companies are rushing to bring new business applications to market more quickly than ever before. In the race to market, many companies have shortened the project life cycle, which has reduced the time available for testing, performance management, and capacity planning. This approach has led to system outages and failures that have dramatically impacted revenue, customer retention, and credibility in the market place. IBM Performance Management, Testing and Scalability Services has helped thousands of companies in all industries test and manage the performance, scalability, and capacity of their systems and applications to ensure a successful new product launch and production deployment. In this presentation, you will learn the e-business performance and scalability best practices that have been developed from many client engagements. We will provide a practical approach to performance engineering that will enable you to not only meet your web-speed launch schedule but also to maximize the performance and availability of your e-business systems. Using client case studies, we will present the critical factors for successful e-business deployments and lessons learned from the failures of others. Sam Docknevich, IBM^Òs National Practice Leader for Performance Management, Testing, and Scalability Services, will help you avoid the mistakes made by others. Sam Docknevich is a Principal and Practice Leader with IBM Global Services. As a hands-on, results-oriented professional, he has over 20 years experience in program and product development, planning, and business administration. Mr. Docknevich's extensive business background and his open systems experience have given him a unique perspective on applying technology to meet his clients' business requirements. As a certified IT Consultant, he performs strategic consulting on network, systems management, and performance and scalability projects and provides leadership in the management of complex, multi-vendor systems integration projects. Mr. Docknevich has extensive experience with clients in the banking, finance, securities, and insurance industries in both e-business and legacy environments. NEXT MEETING NOTE: The next meeting will be held on July 11, 2001: Annual Hot Topics Night 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, Management's Role in Achieving Predictable Software Development Jan 10, 2001: Mark Shelley, Removing Defects through Structural Analysis Feb. 14, 2001: Metrics Panel Mar. 14, 2001: Anna Allison, Meaningful Metrics: Is the Software Improving? Apr 11, 2001: Johanna Rothman, No More Whining: Reframing the Not Enough Problem May 9, 2001: Bill Silver, Best Testing Practices June 13, 2001: Sam Docknevich, e-Business Performance Best Practices July 11, 2001: Annual Hot Topics Night 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