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October Edition

News Editor: J Maneesha

Dear SPIN members,

Welcome to the October edition of news letter. This edition contains -

Events happened in the month of September:

Good news. Eleven organizations agreed to be part of Benchmarking. They are -
- Wipro
- Satyam
- Motorola
- Baan
- Infotech
- Tanning
- Duncan Infotech
- Divine
- Orbitech
- Sierra Atlantic
- Softpro
Hyderabad Benchmarking Special Interest Group is formed comprising of following roles -
- Representatives from these companies participate in the analysis for the data for benchmarking
- Backup representatives selected from the organization will be present in case the representative can not make for meetings
- There are supporters from the same organization at higher level to support the activity
- There are advisors from other organizations who are part of analysis
- There are consultants with rich experience who help in the analysis
The General rules, Non Disclosure Agreement and Authorization Letter were sent to the organizations.
A meeting was conducted in Sierra Atlantic, Banjara Hills to collect all the signed sheets from the organizations
The data gathering template is designed and was explained by Maneesha and Gandhi to the participants
A session on "Guidance and tips to appear for CSQA exam" conducted on 19th of September. Venue - QCFI, Secunderabad Facilitators are as follows -
- Gururaj Tamrapani from Orbitech
- Adiki Venkatesh from Baan
- Ramesh Chepur from Intergraph
- Suryanarayana Vangara from Tanning
- Maneesha from Motorola
Total 35 candidates attended the session on CSQA.

Articles/ links submitted by the members of HYDSPIN

An article on "How to Improve Your Win Ratio by Selling Value Instead of Price" - Submitted by Nanda Kishore from Virtusa Ltd
Earned Value Methodology - Submitted by Sona Bhatia from Orbitech Ltd

Please contribute articles, news or essay, or any best practices in software engineering etc to the News Letter. Send to hydspin@rediffmail.com