Past Presentations

---

2017 NY SPIN

December 2017: Ahmad Alokush
• Artificial Intelligence: Let's Cut through the Hype
  

October 2017: Jeff Bonar
• Critical Issues of Mobile App Design: If you build it, will it work?
  

April 2017: Jeff Dalton
• The Agile Performance Holarchy
  

February 2017: Richard Kuper
• NY SPIN: First 20 Years
  

2016 NY SPIN

November 2016: Peter Morales
• Sprint Zero - Why Agile is Not Enough
  

September 2016: Panel: Jay Leek, Brian Lozada, Chris Nicodemo. Moderator: Chris Walsh
• NY SPIN NYM ISSA Joint Event: Using Strong Processes to Counter Emerging Cyber Threats
  

April 2016: Bob Jarvis
• Enable Your Workers … and You’ll Be Amazed At What They Can Do
  

March 2016: Peter Morales
• RationalChoices: A methodology for aligning organizational objectives
  

January 2016: Robert Gezelter
• Building Applications Programming Interfaces for the Future

2015 NY SPIN

December 2015: Andrew Kazarinoff
• Forecasting Without Fear
  

November 2015: Jeanne Boyarsky & Janeice DelVecchio
• Virtual Scrum
  

October 2015: Michael Mah
• Passion: What Software Teams and Executive Leadership Might Learn About Creating Lasting Change from ... Eco-pirates
  

  Additional Links

  • Racing Extinction
    
  • The Cove
    
  • Passion Over Experience, Paul Watson
    

September 2015: Jeff Dalton
• 12 Questions Wildly Successful Agile Teams Answer Every Day
  

May 2015: Wiilliam Baxter
• Economics in Agile & Lean Practices
  

April 2015: April Madness
• (coming soon)
  

March 2015: Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene
• Learning Agile
  

2014 NY SPIN

December 2014: Brent Hurley
• Panel Discussion: Overcoming Barriers - Facing Agile Adoption
  

November 2014: Gordon Adelsberg (moderator); Joe Cleaver; Andrew Parlock; Mike Sadowski
• Panel Discussion: Communicating With The Overseas Team: Best Practices and Colossal Failures
  

October 2014: Jeff Dalton
• NY SPIN Presentation - Agile Resiliency - How CMMI will make Agile Thrive and Survive
  

September 2014: Edwin ("Eddie") Cabrera
• NY SPIN Presentation - IT Politics - Stories or Facts
  

May 2014: Panel Discussion: Arthur Bierer, Jeffrey G. Bonar, Jesse Erlbaum, Jim Menard, Jason M. Hill (Moderator)
• You've Got Your Startup. You've Got the Money. Now What? (Does 'Process' Matter?)
  

April 2014: Eric Owings
• How Organizations Leverage Mobile to Transform Business Operations and Protect Sensitive Data
  

March 2014: Neil Jacobson
• Neil Jacobson - Mar 2014 - Avoid Failure at Rollout Through “Inclusive” Process Modeling
  

February 2014: Dan Galorath
• Dan Galorath - Feb 2014 - IT Affordability Analysis: Maximizing Business Value To The Organization
  

January 2014: Gordon Adelsberg & Ravi Bhatia
• Gordon Adelsberg & Ravi Bhatia - Jan 2014 - Effective Communication for Project Success …and a Proven Structuring Tool to Get It Right
  

2013 NY SPIN

December 2013: Tony Hutchings
• Tony Hutchings - Dec 2013 - Testing - the journey from ad hoc to Testing Center of Excellence
  

November 2013: Darren Drake
• Does Agile Empower the Knowledge Worker?
  

October 2013: Michael Mah
• NYSPIN AgileThrowdown Munich vs Columbus
  
  September 2013: Bill Greenbaum
• Common Challenges in Managing Online Systems …and What You Can Do About Them
  
May 2013: Margaret Tanner Glover
• Defining and Measuring Goals and Business Objectives: What You Measure Matters
  
April 2013: Ram Srinivasan
• Facilitating Meetings - The Forgotten Skill
  
March 2013: Troy Magennis
• Agile Risk Management: The Nature of Decision Making on Agile Projects
  Note: Troy Magennis of focusedobjective.com came all the way from Seattle to fill in at the last minute for our scheduled speaker.
  
February 2013: Devin Hedge
• Agile in a Highly Regulated Industry: Lessons Learned from Government, Insurance and the Financial Services World
  
January 2013: Lemis Altan
• Changes to the Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) and How to Prepare for a SCAMPI Appraisal
  

2012 NY SPIN

December 2012: Simone Brown Knight
• Agile in a Waterfall Environment
  
October 2012: Brian Berenbach
• A Visual Language for Requirements Engineering
  
September 2012: Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene
• Scrum and Self-Organizing Teams: Courage, Openness, Pigs, and Chickens
  
May 2012: Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene
• Beautiful Teams
  

April 2012: Process Nightmare/War Stories
• An Agile Hammer - How My Team Decomposed Agile - Presented by Mariya Breyter
• A Global Sales Credit Reporting System Rightsizing Initiative - Presented by Amit Kaul
• Challenges In Transitioning To An Agile Environment - Presented by Marc Fiedler
  

March 2012: Jennifer Bayuk
• Measuring System Security
  

February 2012: Claude Remillard
• Small Agile Steps, Big Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Impact
  

January 2012: Andrew Kallman
• Making Business Agile: Governing Ambiguity using the Unified Vision Framework
  

2011 NY SPIN

• December 2011: Gene Gendel
• Requirements Gathering in Agile: Business Analyst vs. Product Owner
  

• November 2011: Bob Sarni
  Maximizing Sustainable Pace
  Additional links of interest:
  - BigVisible blog
  - Site for learning games around agile: TastyCupcakes.org
  - Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes
  
  

• October 2011: Michael Mah
  Ugly Teams: Managing Difficult Conversations in Offshoring and Agile
  Other goodies
  
  

• September 2011: Satish Thatte
  Turbo-Charging Agile Software Development with Lean Methods and Systems Thinking
  
  

FORMER NYC SPIN

2011

• May 2011: Dr. Howard Rubin
  Global Technology Economics - Taking Charge of your Technology Economics
  Technology Economics paper
  
  


• April 2011: An Evening of Shorts
  Dr. Christelle Scharff - Software Engineering Education goes Global and Agile
  Yuri Chernak - Requirements Reuse: the State of the Practice
  Larry Cooke - Kanban – Japanese Productivity Tool
  
  


• March 2011: Lou Gasco
  Top Ten Obstacles to Project Success
  
  


• February 2011: Tim Lister
  We Need It By The End of the Year; What's Your Estimate?
  
  

2010

• December 2010: Ken Clyne
  Agile: A Value Based Culture
  
  


• November 2010: Jochen (Joe) Krebs
  Retrospectives
  
  


• October 2010: Jeffrey L. Dutton
  The Importance of the CMMI to Lean/Agile, Six Sigma, and ITIL Performance Improvement Efforts
  


• September 2010: Ed Yourdon
  Beautiful Software
  
• May 2010: An Evening of Shorts
  Bill Greenbaum - Capacity Planning & Performance for Web-based Services
  Jonathan Silverman - Consultative Selling -The Partner - vs - The Vendor Dynamic
  Daniel Minus - What Can Scrum Do for Me?
  David Klappholz - The RPRCC Initiative - Attracting Young Women to Computing Majors - an ACM-W Project
  
  
• April 2010: Michael D'Ambrosa
  Regression Dialogue (presentation not available)
  
  
• March 2010: Laurence J (Larry) Best
  The New Risk IT Framework from the IT Governance Institute
  
  
• February 2010: David White
  CERT® Resiliency Management Model
  
  
• January 2010: Perry Solomon
  Enterprise Search
  
  

2009

• December 2009: Jeff Sutherland
  Agile Development in the Enterprise
  
  

• November 2009: Gunther Lenz
  Software Process Improvement, Software Factories, and Software Life Cycle Automation
  
  
• October 2009: Barry Mullan
  Barry Mullan - 12 Agile Adoption Failure Modes.pdf
  
  Additional Links provided by Barry:
  8 Ways to Retool a PMO in an agile Environment
  Top Posts from Rally's Agile Blog
  AgileEVM: Measuring Cost Efficiency Across the Product Lifecycle
  Agile Metrics (ppt)
  Agile Database (Scott Ambler)
  
  
• September 2009: Michael Mah
  The Good the Bad and the Puzzling: The Agile Experience at 5 Companies
  plus a bonus paper provided by Rally: QSMA-Rally Agile Impact Report
  
  

• June 2009: Sky Basu
  Implementing Process on the Cloud
  
  
• May 2009: Rudy Gamberini
  Mining Process Gold
  
  
• April 2009: Professor Donald C. Gause
  The Presentation: The Voice of the Customer - Part 2
  Notes: Profound Statements from the Presentation
  
  
• March 2009: Jeff Lee
  Six Sigma in a Software Products Environment
  
  
• February 2009: Marc Fiedler
  Project Risk/Estimation
  
  
• January 2009: Yuri Chernak
  Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering Explained
  
  

2008

• December 2008: Bob Aiello
  Overcoming Resistance to Change
  
  
• November 2008: Rebecca Lawson
  ITIL version 3 - A Service-Centric View of IT
  Link to Transforming IT: A Five-Step Plan for Adopting a Service-Centric IT Model
  
  
• October 2008: Jenif Kochanowski:
  Collaborative Culture
  
  
• September 2008: Eileen Forrester:
  CMMI SVC Overview
  
  
  
• June 2008: Dan Galorath:
  Total Cost of Ownership: Development is (Only) Job One
  
  
• May 2008: Gary Gack:
  Fusion: Combining Lean Six Sigma and CMMI
  
  
  
• April 2008: Ahmad K. Shuja:
  IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Overview
  
  
  
• March 2008: Best Practices in IT Offshore Outsourcing - Various Vendors
  Questions that were asked and/or submitted
  Meeting notes prepared by Patrick Tulskie, Ada Chan, Huriya Manzar and Patrick Michel -- Pace University Graduate Students (MS in Software Design and Engineering)
  
  
  
• February 2008: Adam Kolawa:
  Presentation: Putting the “Engineering” in Software Engineering: Technology Infrastructure in Process Improvement
  
  

• January 2008: Jochen (Joe) Krebs:
  Presentation: What’s Up, RUP? & Agile Portfolio Management
  
  
  

---

2007

• December 2007: Carl Singer:
  Presentation: Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks
  
  
  
• November 2007: Brian Berenbach:
  Presentation: Software Process Improvement through Best and Emerging Requirements Engineering Practices
  
  
  
• October 2007: Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene:
  Presentation: Why Projects Fail
  
  
  
• September 2007: Jeff Sutherland:
  Presentation: Real World Experience Creating Agile Companies: Lean, Distributed, Outsourced, and CMMI Level 5
  
  
  
• June 2007: Howard Rubin:
  Presentation: Technology Economics and the Importance of Software Process
  
  
  
• May 2007: Tony Hutchings:
  Presentation: Does Six Sigma Work in IT?
  Video clip (Windows Media): Richard Kuper introduces Tony Hutchings and presents him with Award of Excellence for his years of service. (With thanks to Bob Jarvis.)
  
  
  
• April 2007: Joint Session: NYC SPIN & PMI
  Presentations: Leading From Within: How To Influence Those Over Whom You Have No Control
  by Lable Braun and Anita Dhir.
  
  
  
• March 2007: Linda Rising
  Presentation: Fear Less and other Patterns for Introducing New Ideas into Organizations
  
  
  
• February 2007: Michael Mah
  Presentation: Extreme Programming (XP) & Productivity Measurement
  More about this event at The Kuper Report (includes a link to a review by surprise guest attendee Ed Yourdon) .
  Handouts: Is The World Not Flat? and Agile Methods, Systems Theory, and "Mind-Blending".
  
  


• January 2007: Tim Lister
  Presentation: Dead Fish And Other Things Nobody Wants To Talk About
  Referenced article: System Phenotypes by Alan Davis
  
  

---

2006

• December 2006: Tools Panel
  Duy Huyn - IBM (Rational) - Business Driven Development
  
  
Christian Weinschenk - JPMorgan Chase - IT Management Tools

Janelle Zeiters - Compuware - Tools Value

Rinaldo DiGiorgio - Sun Microsystems - Software Tooling for Web 2.0, Web 3.0, ULS


• November 2006: Stephen Gristock
  CMMI & OPM3: Capability Maturity Model Integration & Organizational Project Management Maturity Model -- Shaken Not Stirred….
  
  
• October 2006: Ray Boehm - Agile Estimation
  The presentation, an article on Measuring Software Size Without Function Points, and an article on Agile Project Management.
  
  
• September 2006: Ed Yourdon - Web 2.0
  The mindmap that Ed used for his presentation is in a constant state of change. Version 20, the version that was presented, can be found here. To see the latest version, go here and select the newest version.
  
  
• June 2006: Joint Session: NYC SPIN and PMI NYC: The Flip Sides of IT Project Management, moderated by Hollis Nan Wagenstein of Pocket Prep Partners, Inc.
  
  Stu Schneider - The Pain of Inconsistency
  
  Marc Fiedler - Precision Estimation & Metrics
  
  Anita Dhir - Flip Sides of IT PM
  
  Bob Fannin - Innovation Project Management
  
  
• May 2006: Annual Ten Minute Madness Event, moderated by Richard Kuper of R.L. KUPER, Inc.
  
  Thanks to Doris McLaughlin for volunteering to be our Timer, and thank you to all the volunteer presenters for their wonderful presentations. This was another terrific and interesting event! Here are the presentations, in the order they were presented.
  
  Sally St. Amand: The Next Big Thing is ... Not Technology!
  
  Ron Guida (presented by Richard Kuper): How do we get information about new products, new companies, new processes?
  
  Said Nurhan: Personal Software Process (PSP) & Team Software Process (TSP)
  
  John Mufarrige: Agile Testing - Who, What, When, Why, and How
  
  Alan Mace: Strategic Budgeting
  
  Richard Kuper: Data Security: An Oxymoron?


• April 2006: Tools for Supporting and Facilitating Agile Development
  Joint presentation by: Rinaldo Digiorgio, Romerl Elizes, Dr. Fred Grossman, and Dr. Joe Bergin.


• March 2006: How to apply Information Security in the real world
  Presentations were made by:
  Bob Small of Systems and Software Consortium, Inc.,
  David Coffey of McAfee, and
  Michael Lamberg of SIAC


• February 2006: Rose Whitney Presentation: Taiwan's Implementation of CMMI: Opportunity or Competition - You Decide


• January 2006: Rich McCabe Presentation: Disciplined Agility

---

2005

• December 2005: Tools Fair: Vendor Directory

• November 2005: Conrad Weisert Presentation: Legacy Systems of the Past, Present & Future

• October 2005: Peter Iovino Presentation: Best Practices in Portfolio Management

• September 2005: Ruth Stanat Presentation: Focus Groups in the Application Development World

• June 2005: Watts Humphrey Presentation: Programming Can Be Fun

• May 2005: Presentations - Regulatory Compliance: Bill Tanenbaum
  

• April 2005: Ed Yourdon's presentation: Experiences in Software Litigation
  

• March 2005: Dr. Howard Rubin's presentation: IT Marketing and Communication in the New Age of Transparency.
  

• Febuary 2005: Annual Ten Minute Madness Event - Moderated by Richard Kuper.
  

• January 2005: Dr. William J. Hery's presentation: A Systems Perspective on Building Security Into Applications.
  

---

2004

• October 2004: Agile Programming Case Study and Agile/XP Defined
  September 2004: Michael Mah's presentation: Agile Management Methods: Old Goats vs Young Bucks - A Young Goat's Observations on Productivity Metrics and Internet Speed Deadlines plus bonus document: Corporate Alzheimers and Deadline Management.
  
• May 2004 Information Security Presenations:
  
  Noopur Davis: Developing Secure Software
  Michael Lamberg: SIAC Information Security
  
• (Bonus) May 2004 Presentation to the Business Management SIG:
  Kathleen Kostrzewa: Sarbanes-Oxley: The Critical Role for Project Leadership
  
• April 2004: Gian Wemyss's presentations: Interpretive Guidance For CMMI: What We’ve Learned and The International Process Research Consortium (IPRC).
  
• March 2004: Bob Jarvis' presentation: Experiences Combining Extreme Programming (XP) with Six Sigma and CMMI.
  
• February 2004: 10 Minute Madness moderated by Richard Kuper: Summary of Presentations
  
• January 2004: Tim Lister's presentation: Risk Management: Determining How Much Risk You Can Afford to Take.
  

---

2003

• December 2003: UML: A Business Value Proposition by Luis Ramirez, and UML and Software Engineering by Jorge Diaz-Herrera. Rudy Gamberini did not have a slide presentation but instead brought a toolbox and some other props for his presentation about UML as one of many tools.
• November 2003: Applying the CMM in a cost controlled environment by Dennis Frailey
• October 2003: "Integrating HR and Workforce Development." Presentations by Marion Morgenthal, James Mason and Bill DeMarco, and an article by Bill DeMarco
• September 2003: The Accidental Project Manager by Patricia Ensworth
• May 2003: "Why Size Matters" Presentations by David Heron and Michael Mah
• April 2003 - Trials & Tribulations on the Road to CMMI Presentation by Roselyn Whitney
• March 2003 CMM & Six Sigma Presentation by Francesca Pratt

---

2002

• October 2002: Vendor Management Organization Presentations by: Bob Rosetta and Robert Durso
• November 2002: Bob Jarvis - Six Sigma Overview & CMM Implementation
• March 2002: Wipro's (Mani) talk on Knowledge Mgt
• February 2002: The presentations you would have seen from Brian Lynch, if not for the snow storm that cancelled the meeting: SQA and Test Tool Usage Today and Automated Testing and SPI
• January 2002: Presentation on Deadline Driven Estimation by Michael Mah

---

2001 and prior

• Dr. Howard Rubin's presentation on Metrics in the e-Commerce era
  
  
• Ed Yourdon on IT post September 11
  
  

• Floyd Saunders and Tom Angelucci on a Metrics system to measure vendors' performance (Part 1)
  
  
• Floyd Saunders and Tom Angelucci on a Metrics system to measure vendors' performance (Part 2)
  
  

• Floyd Saunders and Tom Angelucci on a Metrics system to measure vendors' performance (Part 3)
  
  
• John Rivett's (Marsh Inc) OO talk
  
  
• Dan Windle and Rene Abreo's (SIAC) OO talk