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Project Management and Collaboration: Using the Web to Improve Your Projects[presentation]

The speaker requested that these proceedings not be available online.

Marnie Hutcheson, Ideva
Software Development on Internet Time-Faster, Cheaper, Worse?[presentation]

This article details high profile corporate disasters and how your company can avoid making the same mistakes. Checklists and tips on how to get your team to communicate better are also included.

Girish Seshagiri, Advanced Information Services
Judging Use Case Quality[presentation]

Great test procedures cannot compensate for poor requirements. Good use cases are hard to write. This article details how to develop an effective use case for your project team.

Steve Adolph, WSA Consulting Inc.
Team Size and Its Effect on Peer Reviews[presentation]

This article discusses the prerequisites to quantitative management. How to create effective teams by determining recommended team size for inspections is also discussed.

Mark Paulk, Carnegie Mellon University
The Real Job of Software Managers[presentation]

Presentation not available online. Speaker will make presentation available electronically to all participants.
For more information, please contact Andy Kaufman at [email protected]

Andy Kaufman, Institute for Leadership Excellence and Development
Creating a Great Team: Ready, Aim, Hire![presentation]

Create a great test team by: assessing your team to see where you need which kinds of strengths, defining the job you need filled, asking great interview questions to weed out unsuitable candidates, and by matching their answers to your needs

Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.
Improving Measurement Capability[presentation]

Following CMM can lead to improvements in: productivity, early detection of defects, reduction in time to market, and a reduction in post-release defects.

Beth Layman, TeraQuest Metrics Inc
SM/ASM 2003: The Power of Retrospectives[presentation]

This paper discusses and explains the differences between post project reviews and retrospectives. Three retrospective case studies are also detailed.

Esther Derby, Esther Derby Associates Inc
Leading Successful Software Projects[presentation]

Presentation Leading Successful Software Projects

Andy Kaufman, Institute for Leadership Excellence and Development
Use Cases for Maximizing Project Success[presentation]

This article will teach you to: understand how use cases can be used on non-oo projects, employ solid techniques to develop "good" use cases, leverage use cases to increase user accountability for requirements completeness, and how to apply m

Carol Dekkers, Quality Plus Technologies Inc
Gathering Requirements in a Low-Process Environment[presentation]

Knowing the requirements for a system means understanding the problem to be solved. If the problem isn't understood, the solution can't address it.

Elisabeth Hendrickson, Quality Tree Software, Inc.
Making the Transition to Software Management[presentation]

This paper explains how to successfully make the transition into software management from other roles within your organization.

Esther Derby, Esther Derby Associates Inc
12 Steps to a Successful Metrics Program[presentation]

Software metrics are an integral part of the state-of-the-practice in software engineering. More and more customers are specifying quality metrics reporting as part of their contractual requirements.

Linda Westfall, The Westfall Team
Software Engineering Optimization: Measurement and Managing Change[presentation]

Technical leaders and software managers face constant changes in the technology and processes used to develop and deliver applications. Discover appropriate measurements to assess and manage your projects.

Ram Chillarege, Chillarege Inc.
Testing and Implicit Requirements: Expanding the Unwritten Specification[presentation]

Testers should be encouraged to test against and report deviations from implicit specifications. There is a Universal Implicit Specification that is based on

Scott Meyers, Aristeia.com

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