Tucson Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) will be holding its General Meeting Thursday, April 20th beginning at 5:45pm with networking and lite dinner/snacks. The Tucson SPIN General Meetings are held at Sunquest Information Systems, 4801 E. Broadway (at Swan). If you plan on attend please e-mail us at AttendMeeting@TucsonSPIN.org. All participants will be required to sign-in with Security in the Lobby.
The Tucson SPIN has also elected to affiliate itself locally with the Information Technology Association of Southern Arizona. ITASA is a nonprofit professional organization whose mission is to promote the development and growth of the IT industry in southern Arizona. You can learn more about ITASA by visiting their web page at http://www.itasa.com/itasa/index.htm.
The SPIN is a forum for the free and open exchange of software process improvement experiences and ideas. The organization will serve as a source of educational and scientific information for its members, other SPIN organizations, and the general software community. Specifically, our purpose is to identify and leverage off of best practice sources (Commercial companies, government contractors and university entities) for software processes, methods and tools in order to identify globally optimized process practices.
Additionally, the Tucson SPIN will integrate all entities involved in software engineering (software development software test, software engineering process group, software quality engineering and software configuration management) in order to disseminate our learning across the software community. Included in this involvement will be our external, but critical customers, suppliers and partners such as Systems Engineering and Test Engineering.
The guest speaker for this month's meeting will be Henry Knoepfle of Raytheon Missile Systems Tucson. Henry will be presenting " Software Quality Engineering at Raytheon ". Henry Knoepfle is a Software Quality Engineering Manager at Raytheon Systems Company in Tucson. During his 19 years in the Quality organization at Raytheon Henry has managed Phoenix Missile Quality, Receiving Inspection and Test, Internal Quality Evaluations and Configuration Management. He has been Quality Engineer, Manager of Shop Operations and the Manager of Quality Control at General Electric Company plants in the U.S. and Mexico. He is the author of the GE Technical Information Series Report "Test To Select Inspectors In A Country Where Spanish Is Spoken". He became an ASQC Certified Engineer in 1978. Henry holds a BEE degree from Western New England College, and is the President of the Raytheon Roadrunners Toastmasters Club.
Henry’s topic will bridge the question, "Are there similarities in the approach to hardware quality and software quality?" Mechanical or software, it’s still people and how they interact that determines how successful a project will be. Attend the April 20th SPIN meeting and learn the experiences, both rewarding and frustrating, of one who has made (is making) that transition. If you are in software quality you can gain an overview of how your colleagues at Raytheon approach some of the same challenges you do.
The agenda for this meeting is as follows:
5:45 - 6:30 Registration and Networking; Food & Drink Served*
6:30 - 7:00 Organizational Announcements
7:00 - 7:30 CMM/Experiences – Software Quality
7:30 - 8:15 Speaker – Henry Knoepfle, "Software Quality Engineering at Raytheon"
8:15 – 8:30 Open Forum, Continuation of Q&A with speaker
* $5.00 donation recommended for dinner and $2.00 for snacks only
For more information visit our web site www.TucsonSPIN.org or contact us via e-mail at info@TucsonSPIN.org