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       CONQUEST 2002 and EuroSPI 2002 - Two Conferences in One

                   ***************************
                   *  http://www.eurospi.net *
                   ***************************

        Process Improvement, Methodologies, Technologies,
                Cultural Factors, and Knowledge
                                &
           Quality Engineering in Software Technology

                18.-20.9.2002, Nuremberg, Germany

                    Under the patronship of

               Helmut Gierse, President of Siemens
               Group, SIEMENS Automation and Drives

               Bernd Hindel, President ASQF e.V. ASQF,
               and member of EuroSPI Board



                        ***************
                        *   KEYNOTES  *
                        ***************

               Tom Gilb, Opening Key Note, 18.9.2002
                      10+10 Quality Methods


               Ted O Keefe, Opening day 2, 19.9.2002
           Organisational Learning, Corporate Strategies, and
           Management Effectiveness - An analysis supported by
                   126 multinationals in Ireland


           Wolfgang Runge, head of electronic in the central
        research and development division of ZF Friedrichshafen AG
                    Closing Key Note, 20.9.2002
     "Process Improvement in Automotive - Challenges, Experiences, and
                Strategies from a Leading System Supplier"


Contents:
========

1. The Partnership
   1.1 Who is EuroSPI
   1.2 Who is Conquest
2. They Key Notes - Experience Profile
3. Conference Day 1
   3.1 Conference Sessions Day 1
   3.2 Papers per Session Day 1
4. Conference Day 2
   4.1 Conference Sessions Day 2
   4.2 Papers per Session Day 2
5. Tutorial Day
   5.1 Morning Tutorials
   5.2 Afternoon Tutorials
   5.3 Tutorial Details
6. Local Information
7. Registration



1. The Partnership
==================

1.1 Who is EuroSPI ?
******************

EuroSPI is a partnership of large Scandinavian research companies and
experience networks (SINTEF, DELTA,STTF), QinetiQ as Europe's largest
research center, the ASQF as a large German quality association, the
American Society for Quality, and ISCN as the coordinating partner.

EuroSPI conferences present and discuss practical results from
improvement projects in industry, focussing on the benefits gained and
the criteria for success. Leading European industry are contributing to
and participating in this event. This year's event is the 9th of a series
of conferences to which countries across Europe and from the rest of the
world contributed their lessons learned and shared their knowledge to
reach the next higher level of software management professionalism.

1.2 Who is Conquest ?
*******************

CONQUEST is the major annual quality conference organised by the ASQF in
Germany.
The ASQF provides the exchange of experiences, knowledge and ideas of
software development and quality management. The members of the
registered association are motivated employees of large companies, SMEs,
research institutes and universities, whose designation is to promote
this change by working together with research institutes, universities,
and national committees. The association offers further education at
working group meetings, workshops, seminars, tutorials and conferences to
suggest specifically improvements of the software development process. As
a partner of the Software Offensive Bayern the ASQF provides a contact
point for founders and a communication platform for software developers,
lecturers, students and decision makers.

2. They Key Notes - Experience Profile
======================================

Tom Gilb is a leading independent consultant and acknowledged expert in
all aspects of systems planning and development arising in large,
dynamic, and multinational organisations. Over the last 30 years he has
developed and practiced advanced methods for setting quality
requirements, designing, quality control, and project management for IT
projects, software projects, systems projects and organisational
projects.

Dr Wolfgang Runge is the head of electronic in the central research and
development division of ZF Friedrichshafen AG in Germany. ZF is a leading
system supplier in automotive industry and delivers systems to nearly all
car manufacturers world wide. They have an outstanding history of
engineering success and started software process improvement programmes
in 1999.

Ted O Keefe from Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland is a
recognised expert in the fields of organisational learning, corporate
strategies, and management effectiveness. He has performed a study of 126
multinationals in Ireland to identify key factors of success and failure.
The results of this study wil be presented.



3. Conference Day 1
===================

3.1 Conference Sessions Day 1
*****************************

Room L005 Plenary Session

09.30-10.30 Welcome Address
   Bernd Hindel, President ASQF e.V. Germany,
   Herbert Eichele, Rector, Technical College, Nuremberg,
   Helmut Gierse, Siemens AG, Group President, Automation and Drives

11.00-12.00 10+10 Quality Methods, Tom Gilb

Parallel Sessions 13.00 - 14.00

Room L002 C-I Industrial
Room L003 C-II Industrial
Room L004 E-I Experiences with Software Process Assessments
Room L005 E-II SPI and Development Paradigms

Parallel Sessions 14.15-15.45

Room L002 C-III Testing 1
Room L003 C-IV Management 1
Room L004 E-III Best Practices in E-Commerce and E-Services
Room L005 E-IV Software Process and Skills Assessment Methodologies

Parallel Sessions 16.15-17.45

Room L002 C-V Modelling
Room L003 C-VI Risk Management
Room L004 E-V Experience with SPI Models
Room L005 E-VI SPI and Knowledge Management

3.2 Papers per Session Day 1
****************************

E I - Experiences with Software Process Assessments
-

SPICE in Action - Experiences in Tailoring and Extension
Ann Cass, Synspace AG, Switzerland

How self-assessment can empower your SPI programme
Finn. N. Svendsen, Grundfos, Denmark

***

E II - SPI and Development Paradigms
-

Organisational Culture in Extreme Programming
Peter Wendorff, Asset GmbH, Germany

AcceleratedCMM for AcceleratedSAP in an ERP Implementation
Lui Kim Man, Keith CC Chan, University of Hongkong, China

***

C I - Industrial
-

Analysis of Business Rules - Component Building and System Integration
(in German)
Joachim Blome, Micro Focus GmbH, Germany

Requirements based testing with CaliberRBT
Dean Rajovic, EMOS Comp. Cons. GmbH, Germany

***

C II - Industrial
-

Agile Process Description with Project Kit (in German)
Erich Meier, Method Park Software AG, Germany

Quality by Design
Andreas Fuchs, Rational Software GmbH, Germany

***

E III - Best Practices in E-Commerce and E-Services
-

Best Practices in E-Commerce : Strategies, Skills, Processes
E. Feuer, Sztaki, Hungary, R. Messnarz, ISCN, Ireland,
G. Velasco, FGUVA, Spain, B. Foley and E. O Leary,
Tecnet, Ireland, et. al.

The eServices Capability Model (escm)
Vivek Mahendra, Habeeb Mahaboob, Satyam, India

Measuring eBusiness Effectiveness: Adapatation of a Process Driven
Quality Approach in Web Publishing C. Baksa, J. Ivanyos, Memolux, Hungary
et. al.

***

E IV - Software Process and Skills Assessment Methodologies

Software Process Assessment in a Component Environment
John Torgersson, Alec Dorling, University College Boras, Sweden

Combination of Skill Cards and Process Assessments in an Integrated
Improvement Framework J. Hrastnik, IZIT, Slovenia, D. Ekert, R. Messnarz,
ISCN, Ireland

The Benefit of Bootstrap Assessments
Peter Boelter, Bootstrap Institute, SQS, Germany

***

C III - Testing 1
-

Application Oriented Analysis and Rating of Software Testing Methods (in
German)
Eike Hagen Roedemann, CAS AG/LOGIXInformatik GmbH, Germany

Design for Testability
Stefan Jungmayr, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany

Testing at Microsoft (in German)
Johannes Heigert, Fachhochschule Muenchen, Germany

***

C IV - Management I
-

Employees are (just) Humans too (in German)
Walter Wintersteiger, Management & Informatik, Switzerland

New Ways in Project Management (in German)
Andreas Frick, ExperTeam AG, Germany

Software Processes in the Automobile Industry
Anke Hartmann, Method Park Software AG, Germany

***

E V - Experiences with SPI Models and Guides and Their Implementation
-

Specification and Test of Forms - All in 1!
Anne Mette Jonassen Hass, Delta, Denmark

Process Guides as SPI in a Small Company
Nils Brede Moe, SINTEF, Norway

Standardized Requirements for Software Process Assessment Methods Marion
Lepasaar, Pori School of Technology, Finland

***

E VI - SPI and Knowledge Management and Information Quality
-

Using a Knowledge Survey to Plan Software Process Improvement Activities
- A Case Study Espen Frimann Koren, Simula, Norway

Make use of others previous experience for solving your software
management problems Ostolaza Elixabete, Quintano Nuria, Bozheva Teodora,
European Software Institute, Spain

Information Quality and Process Improvement
Miklos Biro, University of Economics, Budapest, Hungary

***

C V - Modeling
-

Software in Automobiles - Use of SPICE and CMM(i) in the Automobile
Industry Klaus Hoermann, Q-Labs Software Engineering GmbH, Germany

SPICE in Action - Experiences in Tailoring and Extension
Ann Cass, Synspace GmbH, Switzerland

Extreme Programming - Considered Harmful for Reliable Software
Development Gerold Keefer, AVOCA GmbH, Germany

***

C VI - Risk Management
-

Key Success Factors and Traps for Software Risk Management
Kurt Schneider, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany

Risk Management in Between Theory and Practice
Holger Doernemann, rational Software GmbH, Germany

Quality Attributes of Web Software Applications
Jeff Offutt, George Mason University, US

4. Conference Day 2
===================

4.1 Conference Sessions Day 2
*****************************

Room L005 Plenary Session

09.00-10.00 Organisational Learning, Corporate Strategies,
            and Management Effectiveness
            Ted O Keefe

Parallel Sessions 10.30-12.00

Room L005 C-VII Management 2
Room L004 C-VIII Testing 2
Room L003 E-VII SPI and Risk Management
Room L002 E-VIII SPI Measurement Experiences

Paralel Sessions 13.00-14.00

Room L005 C-IX Industrial
Room L004 C-X Industrial
Room L003 E-IX SPI and Experience Stories
Room L002 E-X Best Practices in E-Working and Virtual Organisations

Room L005 Plenary Session

14.15-15.15 Process Improvement in Automotive - Challenges,
            Experiences, and Strategies from a Leading System Supplier

            Wolfgang Runge, ZF Friedrichshafen AG

15.15 Closing Session Best Presentation Award, Announcements and Good Bye

            Bernd Hindel, President ASQF e.V., Germany

bitte ohne dem akadem. grad, da er ja auch sonst nicht verwendet wurde



4.2 Papers per Session Day 2
****************************

E VII - SPI and Risk Management
-

Enhancing Software Engineering Using Teamworking Techniques : A Risk
Management Scenario John Elliott, Lisa Tipping, QinetiQ, UK

Improve the Supplier Selection Process - An Experience in Automotive F.
Gabbrini, M. Fusani, G. Lami, E. Sivera, National Research Council, Italy

Introducing Risk Based Test in an Organisation
Kai Ormstrup Jensen, Delta, Karsten Bank Petersen, WM Data, Ebba Ehlers,
UNIoC, Denmark

***

E VIII - SPI Measurement Experiences
-

The role of SCOPE manager as link between engineering and management
processes. Pekka Forselius, Risto Nevalainen, STTF, Finland

Adopting Statistical Process Control - Techniques for the Software
Process Rajesh Gupta, Satyam, India

Process oriented effort estimation of software projects.
Ursula Passing, EBS, Germany

***

C VII - Management 2
-

Identifying and managing information flows in software projects Andreas
Birk, sd&m AG, Germany

QDB - a flexible environment for process and quality management Marek
Leszak, Walter Kammerer, Lucent Technologies, Germany

Systematic planning of efficient quality assurance in embedded software
(in German) Ali Koc, TU Muenchen, Germany

***

C VIII - Testing 2
-

Experiences from assessing the quality of large Java based systems Frnk
Simon, Michael Kuss, Dirk Meyerhoff, SQS AG, Germany

An efficient and effective software review process in a difficult project
context Tobias Barth, Thomas Gantner, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany

Test automation for embedded and other dedicated systems
Martin Gijsen, CMG Finance GmbH, Germany

***

E IX - SPI and Experience Stories
-

SPI - easy in theory and hard in practice
Geir Kjetil Hanssen, SINTEF, Norway

Process improvement the hardware way
Claus Trebbien Nielsen, Delta, Kurt Frederichsen, Danfoss Drives, Denmark

***

E X - Best Practices in E-Working and Virtual Organisations
-

Towards a framework for managing virtual offices
Jenny Coady, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

Results from an E-Working Trial in Different Domains in Europe G. Nadasi,
ISCN; Austria, R. Messnarz, ISCN, Ireland

***

C IX - Industrial
-

Certified tester - the internationally recognised training programme for
software testers (in German) Dierk Engerlhardt, IMBUS AG, Germany

Can you afford to make mistakes (in German)
Stephan Fassbender, CMG Finance GmbH, Germany

***

C X - Industrial
-

Constant test automation for SAP environments - the new generation(in
German)
Thomas Koeppner, Compuware GmbH,Germany

Software Quality in Automation
Arnold Herp, HEITEC AG, Germany

5. Tutorial day , 18.9.2002
===========================

5.1 09.00-12.30 - Morning Tutorials
***********************************

Hans Schaefer : Designing Test Cases for Higher Level Tests (German) Room
L001
-
David Reo : Managing a CMM Based Software Process Improvement Programme
Room L002
-
Colin Atkinson : Model Driven Component Engineering
Room L003
-
ASQ Expert ASQ : The American Society for Quality Software Quality
Engineer Certification Room L004
-
Torgeir Dingsoyr, Tore Dyba, Andreas Birk : SINTEF Mini Seminar on
Knowledge Management in Software Engineering Room L005
-
Anne Mette Jonassen Hass : DELTA Professional Configuration Management
Room L111

5.2 13.30-17.00 - Afternoon Tutorials
*************************************

Guenther Ruhe : Software Engineering Decision Support : Methodology and
Applications Room L001
-
Jeff Offutt : Designing Software for the Web
Room L002
-
Tom Gilb : Specification of Quality Requirements, Design and Evolutionary
Plans Room L003
-
John Elliott QinetiQ : New Perspectives on Risk Managemet - An Integrated
Approach Room L004
-
Richard Messnarz, Nacho Sanchez ISCN&TEAMWORK : Success and Failure
Criteria for E-Working and E-Learning Room L005
-
Risto Nevalainen STTF : Integrated Use of SPICE and CMMI
Room L111

5.3 Tutorial Details
********************

The American Society for Quality's Software Quality Engineer
Certification
-
The Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) recognition is designed
for those who have a comprehensive understanding of software quality
development and implementation; have a thorough understanding of software
inspection and testing, verification, and validation; and can implement
software development and maintenance processes and methods. Education and
on-the-job experience, as well as proof of professionalism, prerequisites
must be satisfied before sitting for the CSQE examination. This written
examination consists of multiple choice questions that measure
comprehension of the Body of Knowledge. The CSQE Body of Knowledge was
established and is periodically updated through rigorous investigation of
actual on-the-job practice of software quality professionals. It also
provides the basis for defining the scope of other educational and
publishing activities of the American Society for Quality.

***

Mini-seminar on Knowledge Management in Software Engineering
-
Many companies have recently turned their attention to knowledge
management as an improvement strategy. This seminar will discuss the
relation between knowledge management and software process improvement.
It will survey different knowledge management strategies, processes,
tools as well as example knowledge management initiatives from European
companies. This tutorial will cover topics such as
* Knowledge Management and Process Improvement
* Knowledge Management Strategies - What strategies exist for knowledge
management, and what factors should influence the selection of the
strategy?
* Knowledge Management Processes: Techniques for capturing, packaging and
deployment of experience in the software engineering domain.
* Knowledge Management Tools: Intranet tools for knowledge management -
what kind of tools exist and how can they be of use in software
companies?

***

Professional Configuration Management
-
The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce the attendances to the
fundamentals of configuration management and explain the application of
these fundamentals in various development situations, such as during
test, in iterative development, and for development of Web-applications
just to mention a few. This will make the attendees able to build,
introduce, and improve a configuration management system in their own
environment. Avoid having to correct the same error twice! This is just
one of the benefits of having a good configuration management system in
place. The most importance benefit is, that configuration management
contributes to enhance a company's ability for effective production of
software. The configuration management is the control centre of the
software development, where the components of the system are received and
stored, where changes are controlled, and from where everything from the
right document or code file to the right version of the complete system
may be extracted. It is also from here that e.g. the project manager may
get valuable information about the status of the project.

***

Designing Test Cases for Higher Level Tests (German)
-
This half-day tutorial will show you how to generate test cases that
minimize the overlap with unit and integration testing. Various
approaches for structuring, organizing and documenting repeatable and
maintainable tests will be reviewed. Topics discussed include testing
individual functions with a use case-based approach; entity life
histories; state transitions and scenarios; installation and
configuration tests; volume, stress, performance and efficiency tests;
security, usability, and support
tests; regression testing; as well as what to test after changes and what
and how much of the test documentation to retain. Hans Schaefer was born
in 1952 in Germany and studied computer science at the TU Braunschweig.
(Subject: railway systems and reliability) He has had an advanced degree
in computer science since 1979. From 1979 until 1981 he worked at the
Fraunhofer Institute in Karlsruhe on the development of a general process
guidance system (forerunner to Siematic). From 1981 to 1987 he was at the
Center for Industrial Research in Oslo, Norway. First he worked on the
development of code generators for a CASE-Tool, then on the organization
of quality assurance. He held lectures on the above topics and on the
area of software test at the University of Oslo and Bergen. For family
reasons he has been living in the country since 1987 and is a freelance
industry consultant on the areas of quality assurance, inspection and
testing. 1997 to 1999 he was coordinator for the Norwegian Telecom on
their Year 2000 test project. His customers are primarily scandinavian
companies.

***

Managing a CMM based Software Process Improvement Programme
-
Many software intensive organisations have taken the first step down the
road to increased organisational performance by adopting the Capability
Maturity Model and they are now facing the next challenging step. This
step is the process of implementing a software process improvement
programme throughout the organisation; a process that must be aligned
with the organisations business goal and culture. The implementation is a
challenging task which requires an understanding of how to manage
technological change and how this change can impact on the organisational
and human aspects of the company. The seminar will provide an overview of
how to manage this change and will address key topics such as:
Understanding improvement, change management, continuous process
improvement life cycle, phases of improvement. David joined the European
Software Institute (ESI) in 1997 and leads the development and management
of strategic improvement programmes and consultancy actions primarily
built around the Balanced IT Scorecard. He has led Balanced IT Scorecard
engagements in Europe and Asia assisting organisations to debelop a
coherent improvement strategy that supports the achievement of strategic
business objectives. David is a regular speaker in international
conferences and is the most active instructor for the CMM in Europe.
Prior to joining the ESI David worked 12 years for the US Department of
Defence specialising in IT strategy and planning.

***

Model Driven Component Engineering
-
Component-based software development promises to radically improve the
way in which software is developed and maintained. However, contemporary
component technologies such as .NET and EJB/J2EE are low-level,
programming oriented platforms, and only really support the concepts of
components in the final implementation and deployment stages of
development. This not only means that analysis and design activities have
to be organized in largely traditional, non-component-oriented ways, but
it makes component development and assembly a highly-complex task,
burdened with many trivial technical details. This seminar will present a
model-driven (UML-based) approach to component engineering, which frees
the developer from trivial platform dependencies and allows an
organization core business components to be described in platform
independent way. Based on an integration of the KobrA and RUP methods,
the approach supports the model-driven architecture (MDA) paradigm in
terms of components.

***

New Perspectives on Risk Management: An Integrated Approach
-
Risk management is recognised as a necessary activity in order to improve
the chances of achieving general business and project success. This
tutorial discusses 'conventional risk management' in relation to software
development and highlights the strengths and weakness of current risk
management processes and techniques. This will include a review of
available risk techniques and standards. In particular, newer
perspectives about risk management will be advanced to counter current
weakness. These approaches will address: an integration of risk types
(business to technical), the use of knowledge-based explanatory and
learning techniques, the role of risk repositories and decision support
systems; and risk coordination and sharing through team-working. John
Elliott, Research Manager - QinetiQ (UK) - Systems and Software
Engineering Centre.

***

Sucess and Failure Criteria for E-Working and E-Learning (Results from a
large trial across Europe)
-
This tutorial provides insight into the goals, approaches, and
implementations of a TEAMWORK initiative which bases on previous EU
results and works towards an integrated solution including methodology,
technology platform, andsocial aspects. Major success factors are
highlighted for the establishment of virtual organisations. Also the
experiences and what challenges virtual organisations will face in the
future are discussed. A European eWorking system will be demonstrated
currently adapted for
* ISO 15504 compliant processes in the defence sector
* ISO 9001:2000 and ESA standards in the aerospace sector
* ISO 9000-2 in the service sector for innovation transfer agencies in
different European countries
* e-government
* and news agencies collaboration.
Sucess and failure criteria for establishing collaborations across
different regions, in multinational projects, and cross cultural
environments will be highlighted.

***

Integrated use of SPICE and CMMI
-
This tutorial gives a practival approach in integrated use of the two
well-known reference models, ISO15504 (SPICE) and CMMI. The very latest
versions of the models is first discussed. For example, SPICE Exemplar
Assessment Model is just changing quite radically and new version is
coming to first balloting phases. CMMI just released their latest version
1.1. Integrated use of SPICE and CMMI has been done several times in
Finland and these experiences are discussed in details. Both assessment
and SPI contexts are presented. Some knowledge management approaches use
these models as a source for learning. Patterns-project (IST-2000-21520)
is currently developing one such practical approach, and that is
discussed and demonstrated.

***

Software Engineering Decision Support: Methodology and Applications
-
The need for further development of software engineering practices within
companies adds to the demand for systematic knowledge and skill
management in combination with active usage of this knowledge to support
decision-making at all stages of the software lifecycle. The process of
software development and evolution is an ambitious undertaking involving
a huge number of variables under dynamically changing requirements,
processes, actors, stakeholders, tools and techniques. Very often, this
is combined with incomplete, imprecise, fuzzy or inconsistent information
about all the involved artefacts. The challenge is to provide sound
methodological support for enabling good decisions about processes and
products, risks and bottlenecks as well as for selection of tools,
methods and techniques. The tutorial presents basic methodology to enable
software engineering decision support, i.e., modelling, measurement,
simulation, and decision analysis. The different concepts and approaches
are explained and illustrated by using case studies from requirements
engineering, reuse of components, and selection of software packages. Dr
Ruhe studied Mathematics at Leipzig University from 1970 to 1975. He
received a Dr. rer. nat. degree in Mathematics with emphasis on
Operations Research from Freiberg University, Germany and a Dr. habil.
nat. degree from the Technical University of Leipzig, Germany. He had a
visiting professorship at University of Bayreuth in 1991/92 and got an
Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship at University of
Kaiserslautern. Ruhe was visiting scientist at the IBM Research Center in
Heidelberg in 1993. From 1996 until 2001 he was deputy director of the
Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering Fh IESE. Since
July 2001 he is an iCORE Professor and Industrial Research Chair in
Software Engineering at the University of Calgary. This is a joint
position of Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering.

***

Designing Software for the Web
-
This tutorial covers some of the topics related to the exciting new
programming models that are used to support web and e-commerce
applications. Participants will be studying the software design,
interface design, and development side of web applications. Goals are to
understand how to design usable software interfaces, learn how to build
software that accepts information from users across the web and returns
data to the user, and understand how to interact with database engines to
store and retrieve information. Specific topics that are touched are
HTML, CGI programming, Java, Java applets, Javascripts, and Java
servlets. Jefferson Offutt is an associate professor in the Department of
Information and Software Engineering, is a Research Scientist on a
part-time basis with the National Institute of Standards and Technology's
Information Technology Lab, Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing
Division, and holds a part-time visiting professor position at Skvde
University in Sweden. His current research interests include program
testing, object-oriented program analysis, module and integration
testing, software architecture-based system testing, and formal methods.
He has published over sixty refereed research papers and conferences and
has received funding various government agencies and companies. His
current projects include NSF and NASA funded research to measure software
maintenance of open-source software, analysis and testing of
object-oriented software, testing of web applications, and deriving tests
from formal specifications of safety critical software.

***

Specification of Quality Requirements, Design and Evolutionary Plans
-
This tutorial will give detailed definition and practical examples of an
advanced specification language for requirements, design and projects.
The language is centered on the idea that all dimensions of quality
should be expressed quantitatively, whether they be requirements, design
impacts or Evolutionary project step impacts on quality. In addition the
multiple dimensions of resource are simultaneously tied to the quality
and performance dimensions of the specifications. The language (called
'Planguage') has years of practical use in many multinational
corporations. Planguage is the only language of remotely similar nature.
Most specification languages in software engineering are over-focussed on
function and cases; paying only lip service to quality. Planguage is a
true systems engineering language for dealing directly with software
qualities, all dimensions of them. Tom Gilb is a leading independent
consultant and acknowledged expert in all aspects of systems planning and
development arising in large, dynamic multinational organizations. Over
the last 30 years he has developed and practiced advanced methods for
setting quality requirements, designing, quality control and project
management for IT projects, software projects, systems projects and
organizational projects. Tom has written several books including
"Principles of Software Engineering Management" and "Software
Inspection".

6. Local Information
====================

You find local information at both web sites:
    http://www.eurospi.net
    http://www.asqf.de

This year's conference is performed in cooperation with the ASQF
and hosted by the Georg-Simon-Ohm Technical College in Nuremberg,
Germany. The exact address of the location is FH Georg-Simon-Ohm,
Bahnhofstrasse 87, D-90489, Nuremberg, Germany.

You can find the conference location on the Nuremberg city map, please
enter "B" and select "Bahnhofstr." The online city map will then display
a detailed map of the area. The conference location is at the junction of
the Bahnhofstr. and the Duerrenhofstr.
http://www.stadtplan.net/brd/bayern/nuernberg/home.html

You find hotel details on the web sites and in the printed conference
programme.

7. Registration
===============

- Go to http://www.eurospi.net
- choose the button "REGISTRATION"
- follow the steps offered by the on-line registration form

The prices this year are:

Fee per tutorial 150 Euro

Fee for the conference 600 Euro

There are reductions available, for this please refer to the registration
forms with more details.


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EuroSPI Organisers
http://www.eurospi.net

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