Presentations

Slides and handouts from previous Boston SPIN meetings:

The date of the meeting is a link to the abstract and speaker's bio.
The title of the presentation is a link to the presentation's slides.

2007/2008
2006/2007
2005/2006
2004/2005
2003/2004
2002/2003
2001/2002
2000/2001
1999/2000
1998/1999
1997/1998

2007/2008

May 2008: Project Management Isn't Enough: Essentials of Effective Sponsorchip (Payson Hall)
April 2008: Cave Dwellers and Chatter Boxes: Demystifying Introversion and Extraversion (Naomi Karten)
March 2008: Using Software Configuration Management to Enable Agility (Steve Berczuk)
February 2008: What's Up RUP? (Joe Krebs)
January 2008: An IT Governance Solution - Experiences Using Multiple Reference Models (CMMI, ISO9001:2000, ITIL, and CobiT) In an Integrated Framework (Joseph Morin)
December 2007: Software Security Weaknesses -- Avoiding and Testing (Robert Martin)
November 2007 : Upcoming Revisions to WorldwideStandards in Project Management (Marie Gunnerson)
October 2007: Why Stories Matter: Storytelling and Use Case Scenarios in Technical Organizations (Laura Packer)
September 2007: Agile Estimating and Planning (Mike Cohn)

2006/2007

June 2007: Managing Virtual Teams for Real Results (Rick Brenner)
May 2007:
1. Software Security Testing (Scott Matsumoto)
2. Common Weakness Enumeration (Robert A. Martin)
3. 069-May2007-talk-Jarzombek.pdf (Joe Jarzombek)
April 2007: The Internet's Second Wave: Web 2.0 (Ed Yourdon)
March 2007: Tales of Whoa and the Psychology of Customer Satisfaction (Naomi Karten)
February 2007: Avoid Creep-Discover the REAL Requirements (Robin Goldsmith)
January 2007: Behind Closed Doors (Johanna Rothman)
December 2006: The SEI Performance Benchmarking Consortium (Michael Bragen)
November 2006: All Software Is Defective - Implications for the Software Industry (Steve Rakitin)
October 2006: An Experimental Paradigm for Software Development (John Hotchkiss)
September 2006: Update on the Unified Process: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Definitely Something Blue (Scott Ambler)

2005/2006

June 2006: Negotiation Skills for Software Developers (Moshe Cohen)
May 2006: Offshore Outsourcing - Myths, Facts, and Opinions (Panel discussion)
April 2006: Dead Fish and Other Things Nobody Wants to Talk About (Tim Lister)
March 2006: Six Sigma Software Process Improvement (Steve Anthony and Dave Antis)
February 2006: Velocity -- Making Yourself Fast (Tom DeMarco)
January 2006: Excess Friction: How Fast Deadlines Can Slow You Down & Ruin Your Life (Michael Mah)
December 2005: Capers Jones
1. The Economics of Software Process Improvement
2. The Schedules, Costs, And Value Of Software Process Improvements
November 2005: Coping with Litigation in IT Project Failures (Ed Yourdon)
October 2005: Programming Can be Fun (Watts Humphrey)
September 2005: Fifty Years of Software Development -- Lessons from the Ancients (Gerald M. Weinberg)

2004/2005

June 2005: Successful Software Management: 15 Lessons Learned (Johanna Rothman)
May 2005: Building Accurate Schedules from Software Requirements (Steve Rakitin)
April 2005: Organizing Your Problem Tracking System (Barry Mirrer)
March 2005: A culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship; can ISO, CMMI, and Agile methods co-exist? (Peter Hennessy)
February 2005: Agile Management Methodologies (Michael Mah)
January 2005: Joint SPIN/ASQ meeting: Build the "Right Software" to Delight Your Customer - A Quantitative View (Unmesh Gundewar)
December 2004: Breakthroughs in IT Measurement, Benchmarking, Scorecards, Catalogs, and Communication (Rob Donnellan)
November 2004: PSP/TSP (Alan Willett)
October 2004: Saying No: How to Say No to Power (Rick Brenner)
September 2004: Dr. Jeff Sutherland
1. Real Time Process Improvement with SCRUM;
2. Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History

2003/2004

June 2004: Interpretive Guidance for CMMI: What we've Learned (Mary Beth Chrissis)
May 2004: Medical Devices and their Convergence with Software (Joe Azary)
April 2004: Managing Software Risks in Software Intensive Systems with Metrics and Measures (Robert A. Martin)
February 2004: Phase Containment Effectivity (Ross Seider)
January 2004: Risk Management; Determining How Much Risk You Can Afford to Take (Tim Lister)
December 2003: Five Sigma® Project Management: Emerging Practices in Project Management(Jack Nevison)
November 2003: The Truth and Project Estimates (Mark Durrenberger)
October 2003: Effective Metrics for Pragmatic Project Managers (Johanna Rothman)
September 2003: Business Driven Enterprise Architecture (Ken Orr)

2002/2003

May 2003: Software Architecture and Product Quality (Linda Northrop)
- Roundtable Report: Software Estimation (Michael Bragan)
- Roundtable Report: Conducting Productive Code Reviews (Steven Church)
April 2003: Agile Software Development: Why it is Hot (Jim Highsmith)
March 2003: What Happens When a Team Performs Software Inspection on Test Scripts? (Howie Dow)
December 2002: Staffless SQA: An Effective SQA Alternative (Unmesh Gundewar)
October 2002: Software Quality In 2002:A Survey Of The State Of The Art (Capers Jones)
September 2002: Software Estimation and Negotiation: "Changing the Game" in a Down Economy (Michael Mah)
September 2002: Metrics and the Seven Elements of Negotiation (Michael Mah article in April 2001 IT Metrics Strategies)

2001/2002

June 2002: Achieving Level 2 And Beyond (Judi Brodman & Steve Hannigan)
May 2002: Why Nobody In Our Business Can Estimate (Tim Lister)
April 2002: Secrets of Agile Organizations (Tom DeMarco)
March 2002: Software Process Improvement and e-Business: An Oxymoron? (Donna Johnson)
January 2002: Writing Testing Lessons (James Bach), [unavailable]
November 2001: eXtreme Project Management (Ed Yourdon)
October 2001: In Interpersonal Communications, Quality Really Pays Off (Rick Brenner)

2000/2001

June 2001: Management's Role in Achieving Predictable Software Development (Steven Rakitin)
March 2001: Four R's of Software Process Improvement: Requirements, Reviews, Retrospectives, and Results (Johanna Rothman)
February 2001: Through the Looking Glass: How to do a Post Project Review (Barbara Purchia)
December 2000: Software Benchmarking: What Works and What Doesn't (Capers Jones)
November 2000: Time to Market Process Improvement: A Case Study (Alex Marchicelli)
October 2000: A Requirements-Based Approach To Delivering E-business and Enterprise Applications (Scott Jefferies)

1999/2000

May 2000: Dynamic Business Planning (John Satta)
April 2000: Process Maturity: Things That Work (Barry Foster, Dolores McCarthy, Carol Pilch, with Donna Johnson, moderator)
March 2000: [joint meeting with ASQ] Ensuring Clients Achieve Superior Value in the New Economy (Jim Driscoll & Unmesh Gundawar)
February 2000: Using Quality to Drive Project Lifecycles (Johanna Rothman)
November 1999: Good Enough Testing (James Bach)
October 1999: Software Projects In Crisis: Dealing With Imposed Deadlines (Michael Mah)
- Supplemental Slide Set 1: Deadline-Driven Estimation
- Supplemental Slide Set 2: Historical-Based Productivity Benchmarking

1998/1999

June 1999: Writing Better Requirements: The Key to a Better Project (Kimberly Roberts)
May 1999: Performance Measurement for Software Organizations (Dave Zubrow), [unavailable]
April 1999: A Bad Law for Bad Software-- and What We Can Do About It? (Cem Kaner), presentation, along with testimony
March 1999: A Tailorable Software Process Mini-assessment Method (Carol Pilch)
November 1998: A Better Alternative to the KPA by KPA Approach to Process Definition and Process Rollout (Carrie Buchman)
September 1998: Riding the Web Tide: A Practical Approach to Institutionalizing Project Management (Unmesh Gundewar & Terie Rixman)

1997/1998

May 1998: Using Inspection Data (John Harding), software inspections
April 1998: Standards for Components-Based Development (Carma McClure), slides on IEEE 1517 Reuse Process Standard
November 1997: Metrics for the Intrapreneurial Software Organization (Maxine Crowther), with sample metrics exercise
September 1997: A Simple Approach to Achieving CMM Level 2 (John Driscoll & Unmesh Gundewar)