Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:30:42 -0400 From: Daniel Forrest Allen Subject: Boston SPIN - September Meeting (Tom DeMarco) Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) September 1999 Meeting Announcement Topic: Are Five Levels Enough? Speaker: Tom DeMarco When: Tuesday, September 21,1999. 6:30pm-8:30pm 6:30-7:00 Networking and Round Tables 7:00-7:10 Announcements 7:10-8:10 Tom DeMarco: "Are Five Levels Enough?" 8:10-8:30 Questions and Answers Who: Everyone (Academia, Government, Industry) Location: GTE, 77 "A" St., Needham MA. Info: See our web page, http://www.cs.uml.edu/Boston-SPIN For SPIN info, contact Johanna Rothman, 781-641-4046, or jr@jrothman.com Abstract: We never get to play god, but we can indulge ourselves occasionally and play Watts Humphrey. What would you have put into the CMM? What should be taken out? Tom DeMarco, author of The Deadline and Peopleware:Productive Projects and Teams, tries his hand at what is fast becoming the National Pastime. About the Speaker: Tom DeMarco is a Principal of The Atlantic Systems Guild and winner of the J.D. Warnier Prize for "lifetime contribution to the information sciences." He is the author of seven books on software development and management. His newest book is called "The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management." It is the story of a veteran software manager who finds, to his dismay, that he has effectively bet his life on a deadline. How does he manage the project with the stakes so high? You'll have to read the book to find out. 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. GTE is the last building on the right. Enter the parking lot by the GTE 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. For web directions, see http://www.gte.com/aboutgte/organization/gs/needham.html#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 announce the cancellation on Channel 7 TV and radio, WRKO AM 680. We will attempt to make a 3pm deadline on the email to the SPIN distribution list. SPIN Sponsors: GTE Government Systems, Needham, MA, http://www.gte.com Raytheon Corp., Lexington, MA, http://www.raytheon.com We thank the Computer Science department of UMass-Lowell for providing support and hosting our web page. Daniel Forrest Allen -------------------- www.danallen.com -------------------- 603-756-0924