Friday, November 05, 2004

Meeting Topic:

"Process Secrets from the Women in Black"

Presenter: Kim Caputo
Principal Consultant and Co-Founder, Delta Business Solutions Visiting Scientist, SEI

Abstract

Learn the secrets to achieving the SPI Mission, being heard, getting past “the wall”, obtaining sponsorship, engaging and involving managers and developers, and keeping process groups motivated. This tutorial was first presented at the SEPG Conference in 2001, and has been back by popular demand in every year since. It emphasizes what's important to executives, managers, developers, and process groups, and what’s the secret to reaching them. These are the secrets of the Women in Black (Kim Caputo, Joan Weszka, Roselyn Whitney, Cora Carmody, and Beth Gramoy). By demonstrating how to effectively communicate the message of quality and productivity, and why some things you thought would work just don’t have the right effect on people, we cover practical techniques with a lot of information, examples, and audience participation. The original presenters have many decades of diverse experience, have performed in many roles, including SEPG leads and team members, executives, business owners, consultants, software and systems engineers, managers, authors, and instructors, and have each lead successful outcomes of systems/software process improvement. This is a “must attend” presentation for anyone in the process business. Newbies will get good advice for how to plan and initiate a successful program; middle-bies will get some great ideas for accelerating their improvement program; and old-bies will get an opportunity for revitalizing and sharing experiences.

Your Presenter: Kim Caputo is known to the SEPG and SPIN community as the author of the CMM Implementation Guide. She is a founding owner and Principal Consultant of Delta Business Solutions. She provides consulting services to systems and software development projects, ranging from process control simulation software, to device driver development, to telecommunications device system validation, to satellite networks, to enterprise asset management, to nuclear safety control devices, to aerospace systems, to FAA systems, to energy IT services, to County Government websites. She is also a Visiting Scientist for the Software Engineering Institute working on quality initiatives.

If you wish to receive email flyers of future meetings please send a blank email, with a subject line of "subscribe" to: spin@uces.csulb.edu

SoCal SPIN is sponsored by: