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Lockheed-Martin Webinar

Hakan — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:31:21 +0000

August 23, 2012

Title: The Economics of Agility

Laurenz Eveleens Thesis Defense

Hakan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:50:28 +0000

December 13, 2011
1:30 pm	to	3:30 pm

Vrije University, Amsterdam

EMSE Course at UPM

Hakan — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:13:44 +0000

October 11, 2011

January 18, 2012

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

The European Master of Software Engineering (EMSE ) is a joint graduate-level degree offered by four European Universities. EMSE is awarded every year with grants from the European Union through its Erasmus Mundus Program which promotes higher education excellence. The Erasmus Mundus Program funds cooperation among academics through the invitation of non-European professors to teach at one of the participating universities for a duration of up to four months.

PROMISE 2011

Hakan — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:56:17 +0000

September 21, 2011

Banff, Alberta

7th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering

Panelist: The Road Ahead in Predictive Modeling

IEEE CS Publications Board Meeting

Hakan — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:47:22 +0000

September 26, 2011

September 27, 2011

Los Alamitos, California

IEEE Computer Society Publications Board Meeting

ISERN 2011

Hakan — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:36:23 +0000

September 19, 2011

September 20, 2011

Banff, Alberta

International Software Engineering Research Network Annual Meeting

at the Empirical Software Engineering International Week

Don’t miss SES ’2011

Hakan — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:19:22 +0000

Following up on the smashing success of its first edition in Munich, Germany, IEEE Software is organizing the second edition of Software Experts Summit, this time at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Both the venue and the line of speakers are pretty amazing. Registration cost is $90. Featured speakers include Gary McGraw, Jan Bosch, Grady Booch, Grigori Melnik, Linda Rising, Pekka Abrahamsson, and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock.

For program and registration visit SES ’2011 page at http://www.computer.org/ses11.

Software Experts Summit 2011

Hakan — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:10:49 +0000

May 17, 2011

Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California

Organized by Computer Society and IEEE Software

http://www.computer.org/ses11

YKGS 2010, Istanbul

Hakan — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:11:42 +0000

December 3, 2010

December 4, 2010

http://www.ykgs.org/

2. Yazilim Kalitesi ve Gelistirme Araclari Sempozyumu, Istanbul Kultur Univesitesi, December 3-4, 2010

Yazilim Muhendisligi Mitolojisi: Efsaneler ve Gercekler, Cagrili Konusmaci

Software Engineering Mtyhology: Myths and Truths, Keynote

Slides: YKGS2010Erdogmus (PDF, in Turkish)

How to Evaluate Cost-Effectiveness of Software Projects and Process Improvement

Hakan — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:29:32 +0000

Today I finished a training course for Siemens India on cost effectiveness of software development projects and process improvement initiatives. The course was conducted over LiveMeeting in 5 consecutive days. 23 people from 4 different locations participated in the training. We covered basic techniques for evaluating cost-effectiveness, such as NPV and Real Productivity, and worked out several examples. Part I focused on Project Valuation and Part II focused on Process Improvement. Each day’s session started with a check-in that addressed outstanding items, reviewed concepts, and discussed solutions to take-home exercises from the previous session.

As the common context, I used that of a mid-sized organization in the health informatics sector with new ventures in its project pipeline and with several new ideas for improving its software processes. The examples were mostly drawn from this context and organized as HBR style cases. The cases addressed project staging, incremental development, pair programming, code inspections, role of evidence, and test-driven development.

The event was a repeat of an earlier course I gave in June for for Siemens in Erlangen, Germany. But I changed the materials and format significantly to fit the new interaction style and in response to the feedback I have received after the Erlangen version. I divided the material into 5 modules, incorporated smaller examples, and added take-home exercises for each module. I also frequently used LiveMeeting’s poll feature to engage the audience. All in all, I think the format worked very well, surprisingly with very few technology glitches. The tech support supplied by host was very good.

The course description is available here. If you were a participant and haven’t filled out the course evaluation form, you can find it here. I have opened this post for comments: if you have any, well, what are you waiting for? Do fire.