November- December Edition

News Editor: HYDSPIN Working Group

Dear SPIN members,

Welcome to November - December 2003 edition of Newsletter.

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In this Issue:

1. Sessions held in November 2003
2. Quality Workshop in November 2003
3. Sessions held in December 2003
4. Annual Meet held in December 2003
5. Other Major Events Nov'03 thru Dec'03

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HYDSPIN sessions in November 2003

3rd November

• Topic:
SW- CMMi
• Speaker: Ms. Gowri Ramani
• Venue: Mensamind Solutions, Plot # 1130, Sreya Towers,Road # 36, Jubilee Hills.

Items Covered

• CMM to CMMI transition
• CMMI implementation challenges
• SEI actions to support and grow CMMI adoption in SW industry

 

HYDSPIN Quality Workshop

 

8th November

First ever Quality Workshop got excellent response from industry in participation

Venue: Kamat Lingapur hotel, Begumpet
• Timings: 9.00am to 5.30pm

Events of the day

Kick-off & Welcome Address - 9:00-9:15
• Guest Lecture- 9:30-10:00
Three sessions of Best practices - 10:00-10:45
Baan - "Process Audits-An Hybrid model for non assessed/non certified organizations" - Venkatesh
Infotech - "Visibility of Projects" - Prakash
Keane India - "Resource Competency" – Sudhendu Das
• Tea break - 10:45-11:00
Four sessions of Best practices- 11:15-12:45
Mensamind - "Implementing CMM KPA Within ISO Framework : Technology Change Management Best Practice" – Rajendra
Satyam - "Process performance model" – Venugopal, Sharmishta
Visual Soft - "Defect classification - our experiences" – BVG Raju
Wipro - "Looking ahead - the Wipro Way" - Chandrasekhar
• Lunch - 12:45-2:00
• Expert Panel answering 5 queries - 2:00-3:45pm

Queries:

1. What is a realistic approach for moving from ISO 9001 to CMM?
2. For a software development organization - is moving to CMMI required when they are comfortable with CMM? What might be issues in moving from CMM to CMMI?
3. What are the practical pitfalls in Estimations?
4. Can six sigma be applied in software development (projects) environment and get good returns?
5. How to select assessment agency for a given environment for CMM

 

(Panel comprised of experienced professionals from Quality Assurance group, Projects and Consultants)

 

Area	Name and Role
Consultants	Dr. Anil Kumar Jampala - Vice-President of Hyderabad Software Exporters Association (HYSEA). K S Prakasa Rao – Lead Auditor
Quality Leaders	Chebiyyam VVNS. Murthy – Vice President Quality from Satyam Computer Services G Apparao - General Manager – SQA
Experts from Projects	Umamaheshwar – Project Manager, Infotech Enterprises P Sreenivasan – SEPG Manager, Baan Info systems & Leader of PMI, Hyderabad.

A Case study on "Advantage India-Infosys case study" - by Infosys - 3:45-4:30 

by Rajnish Sharma - Senior Project Manager ; Srinivas Poosarla- Head of Quality for Enterprise Solutions Group with Infosys Technologies Ltd.

• Tea break - 4:30-4:45

Quality Quiz - 4:45-5.15

Conducted by RameshchandraKetharaju and Shailendra of Intergraph Consulting Pvt Ltd.

• Vote of thanks - 5:00-5:30

 

HYDSPIN sessions in December 2003

 

12th December  & 19th December

 

• Topic: Introduction to Balanced Scorecard
• Speaker: Ms. Bharathi Vasanthakrishnan
• Venue: Innova Solutions India(P) Ltd, Plot96, Road No.2, BanjaraHills

HYDSPIN Annual Meet

21st December

The Eighth Annual Meet attracted Whos Who from Hyderabad Software Industry.  Find below the prominent items of the day-

Venue: Kamat Lingapur, Chikoti Gardens, Begumpet

Registration and Networking 09:00 – 09:30 AM
• Summary of past year events by J. Maneesha, Co-ordinator 09:30 – 10:00 AM
• Key Note address by Mr. Sharat Sura of Sierra Atlantic 10:00 – 10:30 AM
• Guest lecture by Mr. A V Ramam from SSA Global Baan Infosystems 10:30 – 11:00 AM
• Coffee/Tea Break 11:00 – 11:15AM
• Presentation on "Industry Benchmarking 2003" by HYDSPIN Special Interest Group 11:15 – 11:45 AM
• Guest lecture by Mr. Harikumar Krishnannair from Keane  11:45AM–12:00 PM
• Guest lecture by Mr. Arunkumar Khannur QSIT, B’lore 12:00 – 12:30 PM
• Honors for speakers of 2003 and members of HBSIG 12:30 – 12:45 AM
• Plans for year 2004 and Vote of Thanks by the new coordinator 12:45 – 01:00 PM
• Annual gala lunch 01:00 PM onwards

Another grand closing of an event- filled year.   Very well attended crowd participated in every event of the grand finale. Maneesha was unanimously identified as Co-ordinator for 3rd consecutive year. Adiki Venkatesh and Shailendra Rao were identified as working group members to support the coordinator.

Other Events

 

Third and Fourth CSQA/CSTE Exams were held in Hyderabad in Hotel Kamat Lingapur and TCS office premises. HYD SPIN members were proctors.
Several meetings cum discussions on Benchmarking Exercise by Special Interest Group were held.

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