UKSMA Tutorials and Conference

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The 18th Annual UKSMA Tutorials and Conference

15th and 16th October 2007 at the Union Jack Club, Waterloo, London.

The Keynote Speaker is Tom Gilb

Tom Gilb joined IBM in 1958 and has been a business consultant since 1960, with his own company. He currently trains and consults with top management and engineering management for product development, as well as in the finance industry in the City of London and internationally. He ‘coined’ the term ‘Software Metrics’ 30 years ago!

Tom will be speaking at the conference (16th Oct) on:

SOFTWARE METRICS: THE 4TH DECADE OF MATURITY

Making Metrics Practical in the Development Process - ten fundamental principles for failure,

and ten critical software metrics principles for success in the commercial environment.

Tom will also be running a one day tutorial (15th Oct) on:

“Practical Project Management Metrics”

Practical templates and principles: the quantified control of requirements, design, and project results for real stakeholders. The theory and the practice, using the 'Evo' process for project management, and the 'Planguage' planning language for expressing the metrics.

Grant Rule, Managing Director of SMS, will deliver the Ian Drummond Memorial Lecture:

PAINTING BY NUMBERS: USING VISIBLE MEASURES FOR LEAN MANAGEMENT

Other conference topics are:

  • Function Point Analysis - More Than Just Numbers
  • The use of alternative Balanced Scorecards within a Strategic Performance Management System
  • Using COSMIC as an overall approach to Estimating in a commercial environment
  • The PSP/TSP Framework for Personal Software Excellence and Team Empowerment
  • Managing an established measurement programme
  • The introduction of a Measurement Framework into an existing software development environment
  • Use of Measurement and Scorecards in Outsourcing

 

A number of tutorials will be available on Monday 15th October, covering Benchmarking, Function Point Analysis, Estimating, Software measurement programmes & Goal Directed Measurement.

Details of the Tutorials and Conference will be available on the UKSMA web site shortly

For more information and bookings contact UKSMA (The UK Software Metrics Association)

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