Mid-Willamette Valley Linux Users Group Meeting March 2nd , 2004 6:30 PM Owen Hall 101 - Corvallis OSU Campus (15th + campus way)
------ Hello, The next LUG meeting will focus a bit on the software development process and try to get new insights into how software can be developed. As a part of this presentation, I hope to continue a dialog about how open source software development can be approached in new ways. Lean Software Development and Organizational Alignment By Dr Peter Middleton MBA ------------------------------------------------------- Lean software development: Evidence is emerging from Lockheed Martin, MIT and other literature that lean techniques have much to offer software developers. Lean techniques are potentially superior to CMM and Agile approaches. This talk presents the key ideas and presents some initial evidence. Organizational Alignment: Influence on software quality. This talk presents results which indicate that the way people are motivated, communicated with and organised directly impacts on their productivity and the quality of their software. It suggests that checking for organisational alignment should be a first step in improving developer performance. The talk shows how this can be carried out. Brief Bio: Peter Middleton is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Queen's University in Ireland. His research focus is on how to improve software quality in practice. His PhD is from Imperial College, London and his MBA is from the University of Ulster. He has completed software quality research projects with Lockheed Martin, IBM Research Labs, the European Commission and in Bangalore, India. He has worked with many small companies on implementing better software practices. His current work is on exploring how lean techniques can best be applied to software development. He worked in industry for 10 years before joining the university in 1990, so his research work is practical and applied. Dr Peter Middleton MBA Senior Lecturer School of Computer Science Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland UK --- Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Or if you have any suggestions for future speakers. BTW, I am hunting for a (good) XML developer. If you know someone who would like to talk, please have them contact me. -- John Sechrest . Helping people use . computers and the Internet . more effectively . . Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . http://www.peak.org/~sechrest _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug