Past Activities: 2001 - 2005

2005:

  • Introduced new roles as Support Coordinators for CSQA Sessions
  • Newsletter
  • Benchmarking - Initiated Process Benchmarking along with Metric Benchmarking
  • Ten Organizations Participated in the Benchmarking Exercise (refer Benchmarking Report 2005 in website)
  • Quality Workshop was conducted in which Best Practices were shared from member organizations
  • Annual Day 2005 – 17 Dec 

Knowledge Sharing Sessions 2005:

  • “An approach towards securing Today's Network” by Shakeel Ahmed Khan, Veeras Infotek: 5th Jan
  • “Process Benchmarking” - Maneesha, coordinator HYDSPIN: 12th Jan
  • “Usage of Statistics in Business Decision Making - The Wipro Way” - Mr. Apparao, Head of Quality, Enterprise Solutions Division, Wipro Technologies: 27th Jan
  • “JBoss ( a Best Professional Open Source Java Middleware Platform)” - Mr. Subramaniam Satyamoorthy, Director & Head of Asia Pacific, of JBoss Inc: 4th Feb
  • “Software Estimation: Focusing on Function point analysis” – Bharathi, Kornerstone consultants: 28th Feb
  • “Tips & Tricks to Black Box Testing” - Mr. Kumaravel Ranganathan of SSA Global: 4th Mar
  • “Level 5 and Beyond”– Mr. Watts Humphrey: 22nd Mar
  • “Test Automation - Overview of testing landscape and Indium's expertise” - Mr. Srikanth, Business Development Manager of Indium Software (India) Ltd, Chennai: 7th Apr
  • “IT Governance - An opportunity for complying with Sarbanes Oxley”– Jacob Paul, Satyam: 20th Apr
  • “Using the Competency Framework for HR Excellence”- Mr. Rajesh Naik, Consulting Partner, QAI India Ltd: 2nd May
  • “Indian Culture and impact on Team's performance” - Mr. Ramesh Thota, Product Manager, Danlaw Technologies Pvt Ltd: 23rd Jul
  • “Tips & Tricks to Black Box Testing” - Mr. Kumaravel Ranganathan: 5th Aug
  • “Overview of PMBOK new edition”– Adiki Venkatesh: 3rd Sep
  • “Various Management Systems and Compliance requirements for IT Governance” - Mr. Sudarshan, VP of BSI India Pvt Ltd: 21st Sep
  • “Improving Internal Audit Effectiveness” - Mr. Sridhar Chakravarthy Mulakaluri, a Sr. consultant of KPMG: 13th Oct
  • “Quality Workshop”: 22nd Oct
  • “CMMI Implementation in a Projectized way” - an experience of SSA Global - Mr. Ganesh Puthucode: 30th Nov
  • “Designing a Process Asset Library” - Mr. Siva Sai N: 7th Dec 

 
2004:
·        “Interaction with other SPINs across India * Interaction with PMI, HYSEA
·        Benchmarking on selected parameters and processes – Oct to Dec 04
·        CSQA awareness sessions continuation
·        Tools Workshop – 14th Aug 04
·        Quality workshop - Best practice sharing by software organizations – 11th Sep 04
·        Annual Day – Dec 2004
 Knowledge Sharing Sessions 2004:  

  • "Implications, Benefits and Experiences of using Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI(R)" - Mr.Krishnan Puthucode, the Director and CEO of SQC (Software Quality Center), B'lore – 9th Jan 04
  • "People CMM - an Insight" - Ms. Sujatha Das, Head of Quality, Invensys-IDC – 31st Jan 04
  • "XP (Extreme programming & drawback) and how Agile+ can beused for software development" - Mr. James Robert Jenks, Chief Technology Officer of AgileTekLLC – 6th Feb 04
  • Model Driven Architecture - Ameeta Roy – Rational – 15th Mar 04
  • "Integrating CMMI with Six Sigma" - Mr. Satish Tumu, Consulting Partner, QAI, SCAMPI Lead appraiser and CBA-IPI Lead assessor – 20th Mar 04
  • "An overview to PMBOK 2000" - Mr. Puthucode Ganesh of Baan Info Systems – 2nd Apr 04
  • “Dr. Adam Kolawa” President and CEO of Parasoft Corporation USA - Automatic Error Prevention (AEP) at unit level testing in Java and C++ test" - 14th Apr 2004
  • "Creating wealth for organizations - using Theory of Constraints" - Rajan Mahendra, Head of QIS (Quality Improvement Services) - 24th Apr, 2004
  • "Quality Control Outsourcing Best Practices" - Ms. Manisha Saboo, Virtusa India Pvt Ltd - 30th  Apr 04
  • "Managing Projects Using Earned Value Management(EVM)" - Mr. Puthucode Ganesh of Baan Info Systems - 14th May 04
  • " Project Management Individual Competency - Need and Importance - based on 230 actionable definitions" - Mr. Dhananjay Gokhale, Head of PELCON, Compulink Systems Pvt Ltd, Pune - 21st  May 04
  • “Strategic Perspective on Process Improvement” - Srinivas Thummalapalli, Director - Management Advisory Services, TUV Rheinland India Ltd - 10th Jun 04
  • "Building Value Systems in Organizations - The Malcolm Baldrige Process Way" - Mr. Pavan Kishore K S, Sr. Consultant, Kanbay Software (India) Pvt Ltd - 28th of June, 04
  • Overview of Six Sigma Methodology - Mr. CR Nagaraj, Sr. Vice President – Quality, SatyamComputer Services Ltd – 7th Jul 04
  • "Structured Innovation: Metrics Application in CMMi" - Mr. C Ravindranath Pandian, Founder of Quality Improvement Consultants, Author of "Software Metrics" book - 14th Jul 04
  • "Total Quality Management for Business and Societal Excellence" - Dr. N. Srilakshmi, CEO NCPAT & Director of C-LAIMS & TQM unit in Nisiet - 29th Jul 04
  • i"Strategic and Technical Issues in Software Testing" - Mr. Arun Khannur, CEO of QSIT Global Solutions Ltd of Bangalore - 6th  Aug 04
  • 'Effective documentation skills for software professionals' - from a philosophical and practical standpoint - Mr. Satyavardhan Reddy, Head of E-learning division, C&K Management Limited – 23rd Aug 04
  • “Supply Chain Management and career opportunities” - Mr. Murthy Pasumarthy, a Senior consultant in Supply Chain Management and an instructor for “CPIM – Certified Production and Inventory management” - 18th  Nov 04
  • "BS15000" - Mr. M Sridhar Chakravarthi, a senior consultant and a Lead Auditor in KPMG - 1st  Dec 04

 
 2003:

  • Creation of group ID for HYDSPIN, Increase in number of members of HYDSPIN * Reactivating the web site and Uploading of new files
  • Quality Workshop, Best practice Sharing by software organizations
  • Benchmarking on selected metrics with 11 organizations participation
  • CSQA sessions continuation. H'bad as center for CSQA exams
  • Sessions from Sitara Technologies, KPMG, QAI, STQC, MUSA Lecture sessions during 2002

 Knowledge Sharing Sessions 2003:

  • January - A case study on Six Sigma - G Apparao , Wipro Technologies
  • February - Team building - an advantage in Software Development - Y V Subramanyam, Danlaw Technologies
  • February - Session on Processes, Tools and Methodologies- Ameeta Roy, Rational Software
  • March - Repetition of Processes, Tools and Methodologies- Ameeta Roy, Rational Software
  • March - An overview on eCMM - Bennet Kumar, Satyam Computer Services
  • April - An overview on Function point estimation - Bharati Vasanthakrishnan, Tanning Technologies
  • May - An overview of PCMM - T.Srinivias, KPMG Ltd
  • May - Transitioning from CMM to CMMI - Raghav Nandyal, Sitara Technologies
  • May - RUP vs Extreme programming - Ameeta Roy, Rational Software
  • June - CSQA awareness session - Maneesha, Motorola India Electronics Ltd; Ramesh Ketharaju, Intergraph Ltd; Adiki Venkatesh, Baan Ltd
  • June - Six Sigma in Internet Application Development - Hareesh Amre, GE India Business center
  • July - Moving from a manual to an automated approach for Testing - SS Ramakant, Rational Software
  • August - Benchmarking in Software Industry - Maneesha from Motorola India Electronics Ltd

 
2002

  • Registration of HYDSPIN, official announcement of Registered SPIN
  • Creation of HYDSPIN Website www.hydspin.org by X student Mr. Aditya Teja
  • Creation of a common Group ID hydspin@yahoogroups.com , Coordinator as moderator
  • Personally meeting CEOs & Quality Managers for Membership in HYDSPIN
  • Increase of members to 50 & member organizations to 12.
  • Initiated Benchmarking on selected parameters, involving 11 organizations August - Pitfalls in taking corrective Actions - C K Varma, STQC  - August to December 2002
  • Initiated Newsletters from this year 2002
  • Guidelines and tips for CSQA exam - Adiki Venkatesh, Baan Ltd; Ramesh Ketharaju, Intergraph Ltd; Gururaj Tamprapani, Orbitech Solutions; Suryanarayana V,Tanning Technologies; Maneesha, Motorola India Electronics Ltd – September & December 2002

 Knowledge sharing sessions 2002: 

  • October - Software Automation - Ameeta Roy, Rational Software
  • October - Repetition of Software Automation - SS Ramakant, Rational Software November - Best practice sharing sessions
  • November - Orthogonal Defect Classification - KS Prakasa Rao, Consultant
  • Annual Meeting – December 2002

 
2001:
 Knowledge sharing sessions 2001:

  • G. Apparao, Wipro Technologies - Six Sigma Implementation in Wipro - 19th Jan. 2001
  • T. Ram Mohan, Intergraph Consulting Pvt. Ltd. - Process Compliance Measurement and Automation - 16th Mar.
  • PV Anantha Ramaiah, Suryajyothi Infotech - CQA Examination : Information and Tips for preparation - 30th May 2001
  • N.J. Rao, Gem Intelicom Ltd - Six Sigma Quality and its linkage to CMM Model - 29th June 2001
  • U. Nagaraju, Feature Techno Designs - VLSI/Embedded – Trends and technologies - 10th Aug. 2001
  • K. Ramesh chandra Intergraph Consulting Pvt. Ltd - PMI Standards – Overview -28th Sep. 2001
  • An overview of CMMi - J Maneesha, Motorola India Electronics Pvt Ltd. – 16th Oct 2001
  • ISO 17799: Information Security Management System - NE Prasad, Head – STQC IT Services – 15th Nov 2001

SPIN annual Event - Dec 2001