CFCSEIC News Briefs W/E February 6, 1998

CFCSEIC News Briefs W/E February 6, 1998

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Center for Computer Systems Engineering News Briefs
Week Ending:  February 6, 1998

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CONTENTS:
THREE DIMENSIONS OF PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
CALCULATING THE COST OF YEAR 2000 COMPLIANCE
CALL FOR PAPERS - ASE '98
NEW SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MAILING LIST
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THREE DIMENSIONS OF PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
Topic:  Software Engineering

The February 1998 edition of Crosstalk includes part one of a three part 
series entitled "Three Dimensions of Process Improvement".  The series 
examines the methods of software process improvement that were developed 
at the Software Engineering Institute:  the Capability Maturity Model for 
software; the Personal Software Process; and the Team Software Process.  
Part I covers Process Maturity by examining why software projects fail, 
the SEI process improvement approach, and building the CMM model.

SOURCE:  Watts S.Humphrey, "Three Dimensions of Process Improvement", 
Crosstalk, February 1998, v11, n2, pp. 14-17.  
http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/Crosstalk/crostalk.html   

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CALCULATING THE COST OF YEAR 2000 COMPLIANCE
Topic:  Y2K

A Society for Information Management (SIM) study estimates that 
organizations can expect to spend 30% or more of their annual information 
systems (IS) budget in order to obtain Y2K compliancy.   

The SIM study recommends that IS and Y2K project managers work together 
closely in order to develop a shared vision for Y2K compliancy.  The study 
also offers the following tips:

*Assign a project manager that knows the organization thoroughly
*Do a thorough job of up-front analysis and planning
*Centralize project management activities
*Be aware of IS practices and the possible increased cost with poor practices
*Use multiple methods for preliminary Y2K cost estimates
*Investigate hardware needs early and explore alternatives to control cost
*Acquire human resources early.

SOURCE:  Kappelman, Fent, Keeling, Prybutok, "Calculating the Cost of 
Year - 2000 Compliance", Communications of the ACM, Feb. 1998, v41, n2, 
pp. 30-39.

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CALL FOR PAPERS - ASE '98
Topic:  Software Engineering

13th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering - ASE'98

October 13-16, 1998, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Paper Submission: May 8, 1998 (email abstracts by May 1, 1998)

Latest information: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ase98

The IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering brings
together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the foundations,
techniques, tools, and applications of automated software engineering
technology. Both automatic systems and systems that support and cooperate
with people are within the scope of the conference, as are computational
models of human software engineering activities. ASE-98 encourages
contributions describing basic research, novel applications, and experience
reports. 

SOURCE: Bashar Nuseibeh, Program Chair, Department of Computing, Imperial 
College, London SW7 2BZ, UK, mailto:ban@doc.ic.ac.uk

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NEW SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MAILING LIST
Topic:  Software Engineering

The Software Engineering Research Laboratory at the University of 
Colorado at Boulder has developed a new, noncommercial mailing list for 
the software engineering community.:

SEWORLD@cs.colorado.edu.

Topics to be included on the SEWORLD list include software engineering 
conferences, workshops, symposiums, special journal issues, calls for 
papers, research and educational systems, etc.  The list is moderated.

For subscription instructions, visit the SEWORLD Web site:

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/serl/seworld

SOURCE:  Crosstalk, February 1998, v11 n2, p. 12.

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