HYDSPIN Second and Third Quarter 2006 Newsletter

HYDSPIN organizes knowledge sharing sessions on various Process Improvement related Topics. Following sessions were conducted during the 2nd and 3rd Quarter of 2006.

Second Quarter
Mr. Arun Khannur, CEO of QSIT PCS of B'lore, 5-April 06, Lean Thinking – Looking beyond CMMI"  
Ms. Sandhya Vankamamidi., Head of Development, Goose Technologies, 20-April,06, An overview of the product "Procon". Brief description of the product
Mr. Krishna Kishore, Sr. Consultant, KPMG, 29-Apr-06, , Presentation on Bangalore Industry Benchmarking results
Mr. Praveen Kumar, Project Lead of VisualSoft Technologies Ltd., 11- May-06, Essentials of Test Design
Ms. Sushma Mudigonda , Consultant, Kornerstone Consultants, Hyderabad., 9-Jun-06, Use Cases in Acceptance Testing

Third Quarter
Mr. Srinivas Thummalapalli , Director - Management Advisory Services, TUV Rheinland India Ltd.,, 11-Jul-06, "Competitive Advantage Through People" - The best practices distilled from successful firms.
 Mr. Duggirala Satya Prakash, Manager – Operations, Det Norske Veritas AS (DNV), , 28-Aug-06, Compliance in Information Security Management Systems"
Mr. Shanmugavel Sankaran, Support Analyst in Microsoft Global Delivery Centre India , 15-Sep-06. , Influence without authority 
Mr. Puthucode Ganesh, Principal Consultant, 29-Sep-06, Differences from CMMI 1.1 to CMMI 1.2

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Announcement to the HYDSPIN Members on HYDSPIN Conference

On 19th Jul 2006, HYDSPIN announced of conducting a "SPIN Conference" on 6th and 7th of October 2006. This conference is planned to grace the occasion of completion of 10 years of HYDSPIN service to Hyderabad Software Industry.

As part of the conference, HYDSPIN invited members to submit papers on the Best Practices implemented in respective organizations, in the area related to the theme of conference "Business Excellence through Process Improvement". The abstracts received were evaluated to select the papers. Submitters of selected abstracts were informed to prepare papers, which were further evaluated by the Evaluation committee. Out of all the papers 5 were finally selected for presentation in the conference.

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Volunteering Activity of HYDSPIN
HYDSPIN conducts "free" trainings on Quality Assurance topics, and the basis is taken as CSQA common body of knowledge. These Quality Assurance trainings are useful for the aspirants of CSQA conducted by QAI, and also for the Engineers who are interested to enhance their knowledge on required QA domains. HYDSPIN conducted CSQA training sessions in the second and third quarters this year, covering all ten domains of CSQA.

This quarter’s article/ Best paper – “On a Quest to Bug free Software Grail” by Mr. Manish Kumar Anand, PhD Grad, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.

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HYDSPIN provides information to H’bad software professionals on various trainings and conferences conducted by various institutes.

Trainings Encouraged by HYDSPIN

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Latest CMMI information:
CMMI Version 1.2 Product Suite Released   (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/news-at-sei/whats-new/cmmi-v12.htm)
The CMMI® Product Team is pleased to announce that CMMI v1.2 is now available. The release of CMMI v1.2 includes improvements to all parts of the CMMI Product Suite in response to issues that have emerged in practice. The changes focus on improving the quality of CMMI products and the consistency of how they are applied.
The CMMI v1.2 Product Suite contains the following items:

To prepare CMMI users for these improvements, presentations about the changes to the product suite for v1.2 are available at http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/adoption/cmmiv12-changes.html.
For those who have taken an SEI-authorized v1.1 Introduction to CMMI course, the CMMI Product Team has created online v1.2 Upgrade Training. This online training gives users a convenient way to understand the improvements made to the CMMI Product Suite as part of v1.2. Anyone who will be an appraisal team member on a SCAMPI v1.2 appraisal must take this upgrade training or the v1.2 Introduction to CMMI course. To learn more about the upgrade training, see http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/adoption/cmmiv12-release.html.
CMMI  SCAMPI Appraisal Results
CMMI implementations are spreading and most of the companies going towards the implementation. The following URL   http://seir.sei.cmu.edu/pars/    list will make us to get the latest list of CMMI  SCAMPI Appraisal Results.

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