January 2005 Edition

News Editor: HYDSPIN Working Group

Dear SPIN members,

Welcome to January 2005 edition of Newsletter.

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In this Issue:

1. Sessions held in January 2005
2. Other Events- CSQA orientation sessions; Process and Metrics Benchmarking session
3. Link of the Edition
4. Knowledge Point

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HYDSPIN sessions in Jan 2005

19th January 2005

• Topic: An Approach towards Securing Today's Network
• Speaker: Mr. Shakeel Ahmed Khan, Veeras Infotek Pvt Ltd
• Venue: ICFAI - Hyderabad
• Timings: 6.30 pm to 8.30 Pm

 

27th January 2005

• Topic:
Usage of Statistics in Business Decision Making- The Wipro Way
• Speaker: Mr. G. Appa Rao, GM- Quality - Enterprise Solutions Division, Wipro
• Venue: Wipro, Madhapur, Next to Cyber Towers, Hyderabad
• Timings: 6.30 pm to 8.30 Pm 

 

Other Events

Process Benchmarking

The process benchmarking session was held on 17th January 2005 at Future Point, Next HDFC Bank, SR Nagar X roads. 

Recap, the process benchmarking which started on 8th Oct 04 is being continued as planned earlier. This would be till March 2005. The process benchmarking will include Metrics Benchmarking, as per the interest shown by many organizations. Total 20 organizations are participating in the Benchmarking. Initial level of data related to process is currently being done, collection of Metrics data has started in January.

The results of Process and Metrics Benchmarking will be published at the end of March 2005.

 

CSQA orientation sessions

 

CSQA orientation to the members were conducted in the month of January 2005.

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Link of the Edition: http://www.webopedia.com

(A unique and informative website which is encyclopedia dedicated for all computer and internet technology. It has list of most frequently used terms, most current terms and much more.)

Knowledge Point:  Metrics- if you are just starting to collect software metrics, remember to keep it simple. If you bury yourself with data, your metrics effort will fail.

Establishing a Baseline- Baseline metrics data should be collected from a large, representative sampling of past software projects.

Remember, Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted- Albert Einstein.

 

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