Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 18:25:14 -0400 From: John Pustaver Subject: REMINDER: Software Quality Group Meeting, Wednesday, Sep 8, 1999, Software in Safety Systems Hi Everyone, Next week, we begin our 6th season! I hope to see you there! Best wishes, John 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, Sep 8, 1999 TIME: 6:15 PM HEADLINE: Software in Safety Systems SPEAKER: Milt Boyd, Factory Mutual Research Corporation MORE INFO: John Pustaver, 978-443-4254, pustaver@swquality.com LOCATION: Sun Microsystems, Burlington (Driving directions below) DESCRIPTION: More and more, computers (and software) are being used to monitor and control systems with the potential to cause harm to human beings, and damage to property. There are now national and international standards governing safety related systems based on this new technology. This talk will explore the requirements and recommendations for software to be used in safety related systems. This may be of personal interest if you live down wind of a refinery, or incinerator; if you drive a car, or ride the train; if you work near industrial machinery; or if you rely on medical devices or instruments. Milt Boyd is a member of the American Society for Quality and is an ASQ Certified Quality Manager. He is currently being employed by Factory Mutual Research Corporation to assess safety related systems and components against national and international standards. Previously, Milt was concerned with the quality of high tech systems used for military, medical, industrial, scientific applications, for over 20 years, in North America and Europe. Even more previously, he has been concerned with design, development, documentation, support of software used in technical, industrial, scientific areas, for over 15 years, in North America and Europe. NEXT MEETING NOTE: The next meeting will be held on Oct. 13, 1999, Getting results with Technical Reviews and Inspections through web based automation, Mike Sowers 1999 Software Quality Group Calendar Oct. 13, 1999: Mike Sowers, Getting results with Technical Reviews and Inspections through web based automation. Nov. 10, 1999: Anna Allison , Managing for Success: The High Quality Equation Dec. 8, 1999: Test Automation Panel Discussion Jan 12, 2000: Chuck Connell, Turning Around Software Projects That Are Off Track (tentative title) Feb 9, 2000: Bob Beach, SQA Engineering: The basics you need to start working with when you are all alone in the lab. Mar 8, 2000: (tentative date) Valerie Nolan, Configuration Managment topic TBD Apr 12, 2000: (tentative) Meaningful Metrics (or Tailoring the CMM) May 10, 2000: (tentative) Managing the relationships between QA, Dev & Software Product Management Jun 14, 2000: (tentative) eXceed and other rapid application development models July 12, 2000: 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. 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