International Software Process Association (ISPA)

Conference Programmes

Thursday 5 December

• ISCN 96 : Software development process
  Chair Mechthild Rohen: European Commission (Belgium)

  The ESSI Process Improvement Experiment "ReUse"
  Elisabeth Kauba: Siemens (Austria)

  The ESSI Process Improvement Experiment "Object Oriented Software Development"
  Roman Cunis: MAZ Hamburg (Germany)

  Object oriented modelling of work scenarios
  Kurt Walk: Consultant
  Richard Messnarz: ISCN (Ireland)

  The place of formal methods in process improvement
  Andrew Butterfield, Michael Mac an Airchinnigh: K&M Technologies (Ireland)

• ICSP 4 : Workflow and process technology (Panel)
  Chair Volker Gruhn: LION GmbH (Germany)

  F. Leymann: IBM (Germany)
  L. Osterweil: University of Massachusetts (USA) Futher panellists to be announced

• SPI 96 : Human-centred process improvement (Panel)
  Chair Jonathan Earthy: Lloyds Register (UK)

  The panel session uses a number of case studies to describe the human-centred approach to systems development and usability engineering activities, and provides a forum for discussion on how human-centred process improvement and software prosess improvement can be combined to achieve the conference goals for SPI. Brief presentations from each panelist will open out into a managed discussion.

  Jonathan Earthy: Lloyds Register (UK)
  Anna Gianetti: SOGEI (Italy)
  Ashok Gupta: Philips Research Laboratories(UK)
  Simon Hakiel: IBM (UK)
  Brian Sherwood-Jones: BAeSEMA (UK)

• SPICE 96 : SPICE phase 2 case studies
  Chair Terry Rout: Australian Software Quality Institute

  speakers to be confirmed in final programme - to include:
  Hakan Wickberg: IVF (Sweden)
  Jean Norman Drouin: Bell Canada

  Panel Discussion: SPICE Trials
  Alec Dorling, Dave Kitson, Pasi Kuvaja, Alistair Walker, Jean Normand, Harry Barker, Mac Craigmyle and Arnoldo Diaz

SESSION 12: QUESTION TIME - The final Encounter

Chair Colin Tully: CTA (UK)
Robert Balzer, Information Sciences Institute, USC (USA); Capers Jones, Software Productivity Research (USA);
Annie Combelles, Objectif Technologie (France); Paul Rogoway, Motorola (Israel)

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