International Software Process Association (ISPA)

Conference Programmes

Wednesday 4 December

Capers Jones: Software Productivity Research (USA)
The economics of software process improvement
Discussant and Chair James Robertson: Atlantic Systems Guild (UK)

SESSION 8:

• ISCN 96 : Experience with CMM
  Chair Claude Laporte: President Montreal SPIN, Oerlikon Aerospace (Canada)

  An IDEAL approach to maturity increases with the SEI CMM
  Eamonn McGuinness: AIMware (Ireland)

  The level 4 software process from the assessor's point of view
  Ken Dymond: Process Inc. (USA)

  Trillium - using a CMM-based benchmark for software product procurement in the telecom sector
  François Coallier: Bell Canada

  A model for technology transfer with respect to process improvement: a practical example
  Denis Roy: ASEC (Canada)

• ICSP 4 : Workshop reports
  Chair Jean-Claude Derniame: CRIN (France)

  10th International Software Process Workshop
  Speaker to be announced

  5th European Workshop on Software Process Technology
  Carlo Montangero: Universita di Pisa (Italy)

  1st and 2nd Software Process Environments Architecture Workshops
  Lee Osterweil: University of Massachusetts (USA)

• SPI 96 : Measuring it
  Chair Stelios Frangos: Intrasoft (Greece)

  Planning and implementing a successful software measurement programme
  R. Mahesh: Citicorp Information Technology Industries Ltd (India)

  Business and cost justification of software process improvement - ROI from SPI
  Sami Zahran: Bull Information Systems Ltd (UK)

  SynQuest - a tool for enabling software process improvement: concepts and experiences
  Christian Lücking, Hans Stienen: SynSpace (Germany)

• SPICE 96 : SPICE trials: overview and preliminary results
  Chair Alistair Walker: SEAL (South Africa)

  The international SPICE trials
  Alec Dorling: IVF (Sweden) and SPICE Project Manager

  Overview and preliminary results from SPICE phase 2 results
  Khaled El Emam: Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Germany)
  Robert Smith: ESI (Spain)

  Conducting a SPICE-conformant CBA IPI assessment
  Dave Kitson: SEI, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

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