Links

SPI Sources

• SEI (Carnegie-Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute) http://www.sei.cmu.edu/
• ASEC/CRIM (Applied Software Engineering Centre and Centre de Recherches Informatique de Montreal) http://www.crim.ca/cgla/
• Treasury Board Secretariat http://www.cio-dpi.gc.ca/emf-cag/index_e.asp
• SEI Capability Maturity Models http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmm/cmms/cmms.html
• SEI references to ISO 15504 (SPICE) http://www.sei.cmu.edu/iso-15504/index.html

SPINs

• The list of SPINs at the SEI http://www.sei.cmu.edu/collaborating/spins/spins.html
• The Toronto SPIN http://www.torontospin.com
• The Montreal SPIN http://www.lrgl.uqam.ca/spin-montreal/

Process Maturity Sites

• Costs and Benefits of CMM-Based Software Process Improvement http://www.processinc.com/benefits.html
• Level 2 Focus Group http://www.okstate.edu/~cmccann/
• NASA-SEL (NASA Software Engineering Laboratory) http://sel.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Quality Organizations

• ASQ (American Society for Quality) http://www.asq.org
• List of ASQ sections http://www.quality.org/html/asqcsect.html
• ASQ Ottawa section http://www.dhutton.com/asq/
• ISO (International Organization for Standardization) http://www.iso.ch
• OSQA (Ottawa Software Quality Association) http://www.osqa.org
• Quality Assurance Institute (QAI) Canada http://www.qaicanada.com
• QuEST Forum (Quality Excellence for Suppliers of Telecommunications) http://www.questforum.org
• RAB (Registrar Accreditation Board) http://www.rabnet.com
• SCC (Standards Council of Canada) http://www.scc.ca

Software Engineering Sources

• 8th IEEE Symposium on Software Metrics June 4-7, 2002 in Ottawa http://www.software-metrics.org
  
• ASQ ISO 9000:2000 resource materials http://qualitypress.asq.org/iso9000/
  
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers) http://www.ieee.org
• IEEE Computer Society http://www.computer.org
• IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering http://www.tcse.org/
• NRC Software Engineering http://wwwsel.iit.nrc.ca/
• NRC ITT - Early Experiences with the CMMI Nov.23, 2000 colloquium http://wwwsel.iit.nrc.ca/iit_colloq/Season2000-2001/Rout.html
• Object-Oriented Software Quality Seminar Feb.7, 2000 http://wwwsel.iit.nrc.ca/ooseminar
• Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) http://www.swebok.org

Related Organizations

• PMI (Project Management Institute) http://www.pmi.org
• PMI Ottawa section http://www.pmiovoc.org
• CIPS (Canadian Information Processing Society) http://www.cips.ca
• CIPS Ottawa section http://www.cips.ca/ottawa
• CATA (Canadian Advanced Technology Association) http://www.cata.ca
• ITAC (Information Technology Association of Canada http://www.itac.ca

Reading Sources

• Guide to Software Quality Books & Information http://www.stickyminds.com
• Humphrey, Watts S., "A Discipline for Software Engineering", Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
• Martin, James, "The Great Transition", AMACOM
• Parker, Marilyn M., "Strategic Transformation and Information Technology: Paradigms for Performing when Transforming", Prentice Hall

SPIN Policy on Links

The Ottawa SPIN web site points to non-profit organizations and their events which
may be of interest to people who attend SPIN's events. It also points to
relevant material which is in the public domain or which has been published
in a journal or book.