September Edition

News Editor: J Maneesha

Dear SPIN members,

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

• Events happened in August
• Articles collected/ submitted by SPIN members

 

Events happened in the month of August:

1. Good news... Inclusion of few more members in SPIN, and now the number of members in HYDSPIN group id increased to 101.
2. A session on "Overview of Benchmarking concepts and process" by J Maneesha from Motorola India Electronics Ltd on 9th of August. Venue - QCFI, Secunderabad.
3. A discussion session to decide the possible metrics and the approach- SPIN Core group with Wipro on 17th of August. Venue - Wipro Technologies, Begumpet
4. Presentation and group discussions on "HYDSPIN approach on SPIN, proposed Metrics, Overview of NDA, Data collection template, Special Interest Group, Identification of Project Manager" etc on 23rd of August in Wipro Technologies, Begumpet. Maneesha presented the approach and Mr. Chandrasekhar from Wipro presented proposed Metrics with definitions. Mr. B S Gandhi from CMC is selected as Project Manager for Benchmarking
5. Presentation on "Pitfalls in Corrective Actions" by Mr. C. K. Varma, Director ETDC(Hyd), STQC on 30th of August. Venue - QCFI, Secunderabad
   PROFILE of the speaker - C.K.Varma
   Qualification:BE(Electronics& comm) from Roorkee University
   Experience: Defence R&D, Defence Inspection, Management, Assessments on ISO 9000/ISO 14000( nearing 400 person days, about 60 organisations),Training/ Consultancies.
   Trainings received : CMM for s/w, Malcolm Baldridge Examiner Training,etc
   He Visits abroad to various European countries to provide consultancy.
   Presently heading STQC/ETDC HYD Centre as Director since Jan02. Prior to this, he was positioned at STQC/ERTL BOMBAY for 16 yrs.
   
6. About 8 organizations confirmed for Benchmarking and to become member of SIG, by 30th of August.

Articles/ links submitted by the members of HYDSPIN

1. A book on Process Improvement - Submitted by T Rammohan, Intergraph
2. Benchmarking approach for matured Software organizations of Hyderabad SPIN - Submitted by Maneesha from Motorola & Chandrasekhar from Wipro Technologies

 

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