IEEE Software
Engineering Standards Committee (SESC)
Executive Committee
12 March 2003
Teleconference
Participants
Paul Croll, Chair
Kathy Land, Secretary
David Schultz
Mark Henley
Ted Byrne
Scott Duncan
Jim Moore
Carl Singer
Agenda attached.
No new business.
Ted Byrne reported that he has initiated the reaffirmation of 1320.1 and 1320.2.
Status Report attached.
The following is a summary of a conference call between Angela Ortiz, Katherine Berger (Manager SE Standards), Yvette Ho Sang (Standards Publishing), and Kathy Land (SESC):
PMI has expressed a strong interest in aligning their PMBOK production/revision cycle with our adoption cycle. PMI has pre-ballot and final ballot, they want to synchronize their balloting steps with IEEE or get them more closely aligned. PMI will submit the PMBOK draft to IEEE prior to release for open 1st draft review. PMI has two rounds of balloting - 1st and Final.
K. Land proposed that we allow the PMI to include the SESC balloting pool as part of their 1st draft comment submission. PMI will manage the first comment round. Then, when the draft is complete, both organizations, IEEE and PMI, would ballot in parallel. Ours would be yes/no adoption for second round. There would be 1-2 month timeframe for our ballot to remain in sync with their release, which I think is doable.
Yvette is developing a formal agreement and process definition for this coordination. When this is complete K. Land will present it to the MB for approval, after that Yvette will present it to the PMI.
SESC ExCom members expressed acceptance of this offer from the PMI. This would allow IEEE members the opportunity for direct input during the development of the PMBOK. It would also enable adoption synchronization with future PMBOK development cycles.
Angela, Katherine and Yvette are to be commended for being such a proactive team and their management of this coordination with the PMI.
Controlling the SESC Ballot Pool [Land]
SA has been responsible for purging the ballot pool in the past based upon an existing SESC policy. SESC can approve the ballot pool prior to ballot and request that individuals that reply consistently get a personal invitation; non-responders do not get personal invitation to ballot. D. Schultz has a proposal from D. Lawrence to modify SESC Procedure #10 to address tracking ballot responders and non-responders for purposes of purging non-responders from the invitation list.
Jim Moore has a general concern that items are normally archived sequentially by a unique number, not names. He also has a problem with the renaming of files for archival purposes. This would prohibit the ability of document holders to determine the version of legacy files.
Awards [ Moore ]
Jim reached agreement with the CS Awards Committee, which allows all standards sponsors to nominate individuals for awards that would require committee level and SAB level approval.
Ted Byrne has completed some exploratory conversion trials. The conversion of the standards headers will be required for the initial load into the QuagMap tool. Paul Croll has contacted SPC and asked them to determine whether the header field can be increased from 256 in order to accommodate larger amounts of header text. Members of the committee that have corporate memberships to the SPC are encouraged to lobby for this increase in field size.
SESC Web Page [Henley]
Access Policy
Draft of Policy on the use of moderated news group site is complete. This document is attached for review.
Jim Moore stated that there are currently moderated forums being used by the SAB and the BOG. He suggested Mark Henley contact H. Crowfoot at the IEEE Computer Society for additional information on the discussion tool being used. The tool being used allows for the posting of documents with associated comments.
Top-Level Architecture
No new business.
Planning Group on New Markets for Standards
[Scneidewind]
Norm will no longer be able to lead this new markets planning group. A replacement has not been determined. All present agreed to disband this planning group.
Initial draft of first newsletter/email is in progress.
Book Series [Fujii]
Work on the series is continuing. There are currently eleven books in the standards series.
Road Map to Software Engineering, A Standards Based Guide – Jim Moore
Software Project Management Planning, A Standards Based Guide – Mark Christensen
Software Quality Assurance, A Standards Based Guide – John Horch
Software Requirements, A Standards Based Guide – Linda Schafer
Software Testing, A Standards Based Guide – Bill Hetzel
Software Configuration Management, A Standards Based Guide – Don Schafer
Software Verification Validation, A Standards Based Guide
Software Lifecycle Processes, A Standards Based Guide – Jim Moore
Software Reuse, A Standards Based Guide – (publish) Carma McClure
Software Reviews and Audits, A Standards Based Guide – Richard Thayer
Software Maintenance, A Standards Based Guide – Paul Croll
Conferences [Croll]
P. Croll called for a volunteer or nomination for the SESC Conference Vice-Chair vacancy.
Summer Meeting Planning [Croll]
The summer meeting will be the 100th meeting of SESC. Fort Lauderdale is a possible location for this meeting. The Sheraton Yankee Clipper will provide a meeting room for $200/day and a projection screen for $25/day. Coffee service ranges from $12-$28/day. The rates are: $69 Per Diem rate, $79 area view, $89/ coastal view, $89 beach front/area view, $99 ocean view, or $109 for ocean front room. There will be a meeting fee associated to defray room, projection screen, and any coffee service costs associated with this location (room + screen/no coffee ~ $50/day).
The MB meeting will be held Monday August 11 - PM?
The ExCom meeting will be held Tuesday-Wednesday, August 12-13.
Action Item Status and Discussion [Croll/Land]
Action items attached.
Waived for this meeting. Send the identification of items for closure to K. Land between now and the next telecon.
Next Telecon
Wednesday, 16 April 2003, 1 PM EST