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In-the-SPIN Newsletter

The Boston SPIN publishes In-the-SPIN, an electronic newsletter, for its members and the software community.

In-the-SPIN is a publication provided by the Boston SPIN. It provides information concerning past meetings and roundtables, articles about project management, process improvement, and up-to-date software methodologies.

Guidelines for Submitting an Article to In-the-SPIN Newsletter

We encourage our SPIN members (and others) to write articles to share their experiences and insights in the software area. The following simple guidelines should aid in the final submission of the article to the In-the-SPIN Newsletter Editor

1. Please submit an article relating to software issues - metrics, software process improvement, new software methodologies, etc.
2. The article should be readable by MS Word, written in New Times Roman font, 10pt. Please spell-check and grammar check it. Also, please use full sentences and good English.
3. The Editor will review the submitted article and contact you as to its applicability to the SPIN audience. We do not publish all articles received.
4. The Editor may edit an article as necessary and add clip art.
5. Please limit your article to 1500 words. The Editor may find it necessary to publish the submitted article over a number of issues of the Newsletter - as Part I, Part II, etc. If this is necessary, the author will be contacted to suggest points at which the article can be split.

Authors may review previously published issues of the In-the-SPIN Newsletters on our Boston SPIN web site www.boston-spin.org.

Note:To read In-the-SPIN issues, you need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer.

To download Adobe Acrobat Reader, choose the Adobe Acrobat icon:

Note: Issues from January 1995 through May 1998 display as web pages.

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