Ottawa SPIN Member Survey

Ottawa SPIN Survey/Registration Form

Dear Colleague: This survey is intended to do three things:

Register you as a member of the Ottawa Software Process Improvement Network (Ottawa SPIN)
Gather some information on the types of topics and activities that interest the SPIN audience
Solicit help in launching and running the Ottawa SPIN (first meeting tentatively June 13!).

The membership information will be compiled and put into a directory/mailing list that will be made available to members. Also, the data derived from this survey will be used to plan future meetings. Please fill out the information below. If there are other people in your organization or in other organizations you know who would be interested in attending or helping, please have them fill out this form, too, so that we can estimate our audience and our support.

(If your web browser supports tables, try this version of the survey. If you have trouble submitting this form, print it off and fax it to 613-722-6296.)


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Preferred Method of Information Distribution (postal mail is worst!):

The following is intended to get some rough ideas on future SPIN meeting topics/activities. Please check those ideas that would best suit your needs. Add any additional comments in the spaces provided.

I prefer to meet (select all that apply):
During the day (working hours)
During the day (lunch)
At night (6-9 p.m.)
At night (7-10 p.m.)
Mondays; Tuesdays; Wednesdays; Thursdays

I'm primarily interested in attending sessions of (select 3):

Invited speakers (e.g., Watts Humphrey of the SEI)
Panel discussions (e.g., several experts in a particular area that answer questions)
Tutorials on particular topics (1/2 day to 1 day)
Annual Symposium/Colloquium (1-2 days)
Tools or services vendor demonstrations
Benefits and lessons learned discussions (all participate)
Small, focused working groups (to solve a particular problem or develop a common product, etc.)

Would you be interested in volunteering your time to help organize future SPIN activities?
Would you be willing to participate in putting together a SPIN Newsletter?
Would you be willing to participate in defining the charter for our SPIN?
Would your organization be willing to sponsor a SPIN meeting or activity?
Would your organization be willing to host a SPIN meeting?

Additional comments:
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or, E-mail to: David.Constant@ProcessInc.com

The following table is intended to get some ideas of the general interests of the SPIN audience. Please check all topics that interest you. This list is composed of topics that have been addressed by other SPINs in North America, as well as other ideas that came to mind when putting this survey together.

PLEASE SELECT UP TO 15 ITEMS OF INTEREST

Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
CMM vs ISO 9000
Tailoring the CMM
ISO 9000 for software
Risk Assessment
Risk management
Experiences with CMM level 3, 4, 5 organizations
Requirements Management
Software Configuration Management
Software Project Planning, Tracking & Oversight
Software Subcontract Management
Software Quality Assurance
Peer Reviews, inspections
Organizational Training Programs
Organizational Process Definition
Organizational Process Focus
Integrated Software Management
Software Product Engineering
Intergroup Coordination
Process Measurement and Analysis
Quality Management
Defect Prevention
Total Quality Management (TQM)
Cleanroom
Technology Innovation
Process Change Management
Process appraisals
Process improvement programs
Executive awareness and buy-in
Managing technological change
Selling process improvement to management
Software Improvement Planning
Models for process improvement
Software Engineering Process Groups (SEPG)
Role of SEPGs
SEPG experiences and lessons learned
How to build an SEPG
Role of measurement in software engineering
Measurement and customer satisfaction
Statistical process control
Measuring the benefits of process improvement
The business case
Return on investment
Rate Monotonic Analysis
Joint Application Design
Measuring software quality, reliability, maintainability ...
Quality management tools
Quality function deployment
Software engineering education and training
Certification and licensing of software engineers
University level education progams in s/w engineering
Personal Software Process (Watts Humphrey)
Software Engineering Institute (SEI) directions/goals
Software testing
Re-engineering
Software design
Life cycle models, tailoring
Object oriented analysis, design, etc.
Test tools and techniques
Tool/service vendor presentations
Reuse
Process Benchmarking
Organizational Development
Software Architectures
Team Dynamics
Other (send mail)

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Many thanks for your ideas and participation. See you at the meetings!

David.Constant@ProcessInc.com