Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 15:41:10 -0400 (EDT) From: John Pustaver Subject: Software Quality Group Meeting, May 13, 1998, Risk Management for IT Projects Software Quality Group Meeting Meetings of the Software Quality Group are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the facilities of Waterfield Technology Group, 430 Bedford Street, Lexington, Massachusetts (see below for directions). MEETING DAY & DATE: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 TIME: 6:15 PM HEADLINE: Risk Management for IT Projects SPEAKER: Chris Mazerolle, NorthPoint Software & Services Inc. MORE INFO: JOHN PUSTAVER, 978-443-4254, pustaver @swquality.com LOCATION: Waterfield Technology Group, 430 Bedford Street, Lexington DESCRIPTION: The focus of the presentation will be: 1 The Historic Approach to Risk Management of IT Projects 2 The Results & Limitations of the Historic Approach 3 NorthPoint's Risk Management Methodology NorthPoint Software & Services Inc. offers a suite of software products and services that provide organizations with the knowledge required to increase the success rate and value of their IT projects. NorthPoint's products and services allow organizations to focus on identifying and mitigating the risks inherent in their IT initiatives, with a quantitative approach that measures the levels of knowledge, experience and performance of the team members. Through this process and the output generated, our current customers, such as IBM, EDS and Emerson Electric, have gained the knowledge required to incorporate strategies to convert those risks identified into economic value. NEXT MEETING NOTE: The next meeting will be held on June 10, 1998, the second Wednesday. The Software Quality Group holds monthly meetings. Topics covered at these meetings have included software testing, inspections, ISO 9000, 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 Waterfield Technology Group, Lexington Office Park, 430 Bedford Street, Lexington, 2nd floor, next to the elevator. This is just off of route 95 (AKA 128) at the Rtes 4 & 225 exit in Lexington. Take the west bound exit. 430 Bedford Street is on the left in Lexington Office Park just before the Denny's restaurant but you can't make a left here so you have to go to the turn-around a little further up the road. 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 the ASQ Software Division and all are welcome. Directors of the Software Quality Group are John Pustaver, American Society for Quality, Software Division, Region I Councilor and Bill Nicholson, Waterfield Technology Group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Software Quality Consulting voice:978-443-4254 fax:978-443-6052 pustaver@swquality.com http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver