SMS Improvement Champion December 2008

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Issue: 011 | December 2008

	2008 Improvement Champion Yearbook Order your free hard copy.	Season’s Greetings from SMS The SMS team would like to wish all our customers, partners, colleagues, and associates the compliments of the season. We look forward to working with you in 2009.
Yearbook Contents: Improvement Champion Issue 07, January 2008
	Delivering value from benchmarking P. Grant Rule
	Measurement for Automotive SPICE Bernard Londeix
Improvement Champion Issue 08, May 2008
	Delivering return on investment from software process improvement P. Grant Rule
	“To backfire or not to backfire” remains a question David G. Rogers
	IT Challenges: Report on a survey conducted at the ESEPG Conference Dr. Austen Rainer/Moin Uddin Muhammad/Sue Rule
Improvement Champion Issue 09, August 2008
	A short history of lines of code Capers Jones
Improvement Champion Issue 10, November 2008
	Are all executives unethical? Bob Marshall
	Knowledge-based management for Rightshifting performance Sue Rule

Events:

Issues with Estimating.
19th February 2009

The next SMIF will be on Thursday 19th February 2009 at Intellect, Russell Square London.

Bringing a wealth of experience with metrics and estimating to the discussion will be:

     Peter Thomas, Steria

     Bernard Londeix, SMS

     tba

Attendance at SMIF is free, but must be registered in advance.

In the interests of conservation, SMS is not sending Christmas cards this year.

Practical Use of Function Point Analysis:
£750 (GBP) per person, non-residential

28th/29th January 2009:
Practical Use of IFPUG 4.2

11th/12th February 2009:
Practical use of COSMIC v3

Introduction to CMMI® Plus
SEI authorised Introduction to the CMMI workshop plus 1-day Implementing the CMMI workshop.

Dates to be confirmed.