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* EuroSPI'2000 - Conference *
* European Software Process Improvement *
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* Theme 2000 : "Practical and Innovation Based Software Process Improvement *
* to Prepare for the New Millennium" *
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SAS Falkoner, 7. - 9.11.2000, Copenhagen, Denmark
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* Conference Announcement and Call for Papers *
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http://www.bigfoot.com/~EuroSPI
or
http://www.iscn.ie/conferences/eurospi2000
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Watts Humphrey, Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, USA
Prof. Dieter Rombach, Fraunhoher IESE and University of Kaiserslautern,
Germany
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SPI Experience
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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 third one to be hosted in Scandinavia which has one
of the most vibrant SPI communities in Europe and is home to some of the top
electronics companies. It is the 7th 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.
Who should attend?
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The conference will benefit all who are concerned with the management
and improvement of organisational processes, the innovation and effective
use of information systems and software processes, as well as all those who
are interested in developing efficient and profitable work processes to
increase the competitiveness of the organisation in the market.
Topics
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Contributions will address the following topics:
SPI and Business Strategies.
Assessement Methodologies.
Improvement Planning.
Learning Organizations.
How to Manage Innovation.
Measurement.
Goal Analysis and Improvement.
Experience Reports (Implementation).
SPI in different Industry Branches.
SPI in different Process Areas.
SPI Networks and Systems.
Call for Participation
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Presentations will be from leading companies and experts in the field.
Abstracts for papers of approx. 200 words should be sent to the conference
secretariat (ASCII text by Email is preferred) no later than 28.4.2000.
European projects disseminating SPI experience and ESSI Process Improvement
Experiments (PIE) are encouraged to participate.
Associated Events
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In conjuction with this conference there will be a mini-seminars and workshop
day dealing with practical issues of Software Process Improvement. Workshop
leaders will be recognised experts in the field.The workshops cover the
following topics:
Business and Goal Based SPI
Cost Benefit Analysis
Root Cause Analysis
GQM workshop
Data Analysis
Assessment Methodologies
SPI in Innovation Management
Teamwork Based SPI Principles and Experience.
While the conference is a collection of different experiences the workshops
are interactive sessions in which participants learn ''how to do it''.
Tool Fair
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A Tool Fair will accompany the main conference exhibiting tools supporting
process analysis, the management of software process improvement environments,
work flows and measurement.
Sponsors and Exhibitors
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Sponsors and exhibitors are invited to visit
http://www.iscn.ie/conferences/eurospi2000 and read the sponsors and
exhibitors information, or contact the coordinating office directly. A
standard set of options for the sponsors and exhibitors are described on the
web.
EuroSPI Partnership
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The EuroSPI partnership was formed in 1998 to continue with the conference
series and training actions previously organised in partnership with ISCN,
ESI, and SP.
EuroSPI is a consortium of Sintef (Norway), IVF (Sweden), Delta (Denmark),
STTF (Finland), DERA (UK), ASQF (Germany), and ISCN (Ireland and Austria).
It bases on a defined model for conference organisation, standards for
conference performance, and standard types of agreements. It is EuroSPI's
policy to grow over the years into an organisation with one representative
per European country and with a conference series securely managed at
least until 2012.
EuroSPI is already well planned in advance with EuroSPI 2001 in Oslo, EuroSPI
2002 in Nuernberg in Germany, and EuroSPI 2003 in the UK.
You can find details about the current partnership at:
Delta (http://www.delta.dk), IVF (http://www.ivf.se), SINTEF
(http://www.sintef.no), STTF (http://www.sttf.fi), ASQF (www.asqf.de), DERA
(www.dera.gov.uk), and ISCN (http://www.iscn.ie).
EuroSPI Secretariat
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Conference Secretariat. "EuroSPI2000" Secretariat,c/o ISCN Co-ordination
Office, Florence House, 1 Florence Villas, Bray, Co.Wicklow, Ireland, Fax.+353
1 286 5078, email:[log in to unmask], http//www.bigfoot.com/~EuroSPI
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* The EuroSPI partnership is committed to deliver quality *
* and will guarantee SPI experience distribution over the next decade *
* in the new millennium *
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| Dr techn. DI Richard Messnarz |
| Director, ISCN |
| EuroSPI Consortium Board Member |
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