NY SPIN

Past Presentations

2013 NY SPIN

May 2013: Margaret Tanner Glover

Defining and Measuring Goals and Business Objectives: What You Measure Matters
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April 2013: Ram Srinivasan

Facilitating Meetings - The Forgotten Skill
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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.
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February 2013: Devin Hedge

Agile in a Highly Regulated Industry: Lessons Learned from Government, Insurance and the Financial Services World
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January 2013: Lemis Altan

Changes to the Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) and How to Prepare for a SCAMPI Appraisal
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2012 NY SPIN

December 2012: Simone Brown Knight

Agile in a Waterfall Environment
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October 2012: Brian Berenbach

A Visual Language for Requirements Engineering
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September 2012: Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene

Scrum and Self-Organizing Teams: Courage, Openness, Pigs, and Chickens
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May 2012: Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene

Beautiful Teams
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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
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March 2012: Jennifer Bayuk

Measuring System Security
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February 2012: Claude Remillard

Small Agile Steps, Big Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Impact
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January 2012: Andrew Kallman

Making Business Agile: Governing Ambiguity using the Unified Vision Framework
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2011 NY SPIN

December 2011: Gene Gendel
Requirements Gathering in Agile: Business Analyst vs. Product Owner
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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
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October 2011: Michael Mah
Ugly Teams: Managing Difficult Conversations in Offshoring and Agile
Other goodies
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September 2011: Satish Thatte
Turbo-Charging Agile Software Development with Lean Methods and Systems Thinking
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FORMER NYC SPIN

2011

May 2011: Dr. Howard Rubin
Global Technology Economics - Taking Charge of your Technology Economics
Technology Economics paper
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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
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March 2011: Lou Gasco
Top Ten Obstacles to Project Success
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February 2011: Tim Lister
We Need It By The End of the Year; What's Your Estimate?
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2010

December 2010: Ken Clyne
Agile: A Value Based Culture
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November 2010: Jochen (Joe) Krebs
Retrospectives
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October 2010: Jeffrey L. Dutton
The Importance of the CMMI to Lean/Agile, Six Sigma, and ITIL Performance Improvement Efforts
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September 2010: Ed Yourdon
Beautiful Software
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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
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April 2010: Michael D'Ambrosa
Regression Dialogue (presentation not available)
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March 2010: Laurence J (Larry) Best
The New Risk IT Framework from the IT Governance Institute
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February 2010: David White
CERT® Resiliency Management Model
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January 2010: Perry Solomon
Enterprise Search
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2009

December 2009: Jeff Sutherland
Agile Development in the Enterprise
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November 2009: Gunther Lenz
Software Process Improvement, Software Factories, and Software Life Cycle Automation
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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)

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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
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June 2009: Sky Basu
Implementing Process on the Cloud
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May 2009: Rudy Gamberini
Mining Process Gold
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April 2009: Professor Donald C. Gause
The Presentation: The Voice of the Customer - Part 2
Notes: Profound Statements from the Presentation
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March 2009: Jeff Lee
Six Sigma in a Software Products Environment
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February 2009: Marc Fiedler
Project Risk/Estimation
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January 2009: Yuri Chernak
Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering Explained
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2008

December 2008: Bob Aiello
Overcoming Resistance to Change
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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
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October 2008: Jenif Kochanowski:
Collaborative Culture
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September 2008: Eileen Forrester:
CMMI SVC Overview
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June 2008: Dan Galorath:
Total Cost of Ownership: Development is (Only) Job One
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May 2008: Gary Gack:
Fusion: Combining Lean Six Sigma and CMMI
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April 2008: Ahmad K. Shuja:
IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Overview
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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)
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February 2008: Adam Kolawa:
Presentation: Putting the “Engineering” in Software Engineering: Technology Infrastructure in Process Improvement
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January 2008: Jochen (Joe) Krebs:
Presentation: What’s Up, RUP? & Agile Portfolio Management
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2007

December 2007: Carl Singer:
Presentation: Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks
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November 2007: Brian Berenbach:
Presentation: Software Process Improvement through Best and Emerging Requirements Engineering Practices
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October 2007: Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene:
Presentation: Why Projects Fail
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September 2007: Jeff Sutherland:
Presentation: Real World Experience Creating Agile Companies: Lean, Distributed, Outsourced, and CMMI Level 5
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June 2007: Howard Rubin:
Presentation: Technology Economics and the Importance of Software Process
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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.)
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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.
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March 2007: Linda Rising
Presentation: Fear Less and other Patterns for Introducing New Ideas into Organizations
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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".
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January 2007: Tim Lister
Presentation: Dead Fish And Other Things Nobody Wants To Talk About
Referenced article: System Phenotypes by Alan Davis
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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.

William Tanenbaum: Best Practices for Privacy and Security in IT and Outsourcing: The Legal Perspective.
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
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


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