Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:18:31 -0500 From: John Pustaver Subject: MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Software Quality Group Meeting (Book Give-away), Wednesday, Apr 10, 2002, Metrics Implementation Case Study - A Year Later, Mark Shelley, NMS Communications Hi Everyone, Learn about implementing a metrics program and get a chance to win a copy of Boris Beizer's book, Black Box Testing or Steve Rakitin's book, Software Verification and Validation. Four copies of Black Box Testing (courtesy of Empirix) and one copy of Software Verification and Validation (courtesy of Steve Rakitin) will be given away at this meeting. Please note that a picture ID is now required for attendance. Best wishes, John Pustaver Director, Software Quality Group of New England Region I Councilor, ASQ Software Division P.S. If your company has SQA positions to fill for permanent or contract employment, please have HR send me a .htm file for each job with all pertinent info so that it can be posted. There are many people looking. Send to pustaver@swquality.com. Software Quality Group Meeting 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, Apr 10, 2002 TIME: 6:00 PM Networking, 6:30 PM Presentation HEADLINE: Metrics Implementation Case Study - A Year Later SPEAKER: Mark Shelley, NMS Communications MORE INFO: John Pustaver, 978-443-4254, pustaver@swquality.com LOCATION: Sun Microsystems, Burlington (Driving directions below) DESCRIPTION: Last year, NMS Communications began a plan to improve software through metric analysis. The presentation will cover: o Results of Analysis o Reaction to the Analysis o How to implement these programs with minimal resources o Why the project was cancelled o Post Mortem on the entire activity Mark Shelley is a Lead ISO 9000:2000 auditor at NMS Communications. He has 20 years of industry experience covering all aspects of SW Engineering, SW Quality Assurance, Customer Support, and Corporate Quality Assurance. Outside of work, Mark can be found tinkering on bicycles of every description. NEXT MEETING NOTE: Our next meeting will be held May 8, 2002: Marc Rene, Defect Tracking and Reporting 2001-2002 Software Quality Group Calendar Sep 12, 2001: James Isaak, Web Page Engineering Oct. 10, 2001: Steve Rakitin, Writing Software Requirements Nov. 14, 2001: Jim Over, SEI, Personal Software Process (PSP) and Team Software Process (TSP). Dec. 12, 2001: Phil Hollows, Best Practices in Web Load Testing Jan 9, 2002: Bill Silver, Demonstration of Test Design and Automation Feb. 13, 2002: Eric Patel, Career Development Activities for the SQA and Test Professional Mar. 13, 2002: Anna Allison Memorial Presentation, Rick Brenner, Meet Your Executive Committee Apr 10, 2002: Mark Shelley, Metrics May 8, 2002: Marc Rene, Defect Tracking and Reporting June 12, 2002: David Heimann, Implementing Metrics in a Software Development Project - A Case Study July 10, 2002: Annual Hot Topics Night August 2002: NO MEETING 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. Directors of the Software Quality Group are John Pustaver, Region I Councilor, American Society for Quality Software Division, Eric Patel, Deputy Regional Councilor, ASQ-SD, Michele Rupert and Jack Morrison of Sun Microsystems. To unsubscribe, reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" as the subject. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SWQuality, Inc. Software Quality Solutions voice:978-443-4254 fax:978-443-6052 pustaver@swquality.com http://www.swquality.com Visit the Software Quality Page at http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver/index.shtml