IEEE S2ESC Teleconference Meeting #140
December 14, 2006

Attendees:

Paul Croll, Chair

Annette Reilly

Carl Singer

Chuck Walrad

Dave Schultz

Jim Moore

John Walz

Keith Middleton

Vladan Jovanovic

 

 

Call to order: 12:40 p.m. EDT



1.    IEEE SA liaison [ A. Ortiz ]


      1.1   Ballot status/issues

  • No report

      1.2   PAR issues

  • No report

2.    Management Board Status Report [ D. Schultz ]
      2.1   Standards

§   No report.


      2.2   Working Groups

  • Middleton and Dean sent a draft 730 PAR for Paul’s approval.

3.    SC7 Liaison Report [J. Moore]

  • No report.

4.    Web Presence [M. Henley ]

  • No report.

5. Practitioner's Conference/Workshops & Outreach [Croll/ Moore]

5. Professional Practices Committee [J. Moore]

  • Definition of SW Engineering: SWEBOK, SE 2004 curriculum, and professional development certification are all good pieces, and have about 95% overlap, a good indication of professional consensus.  The difference is only 5%. A revised Outline of Knowledge done late year will resolve the differences. The next SWEBOK and CSIP(??) will use this Outline of Knowledge.
  • Consideration of two levels of certification now: a basic  one for folks just out of college with a CS degree, and one for professionals (CSDP  (Certified SW Development Professional). .
  • Have contributed many items to Annette’s vocabulary database, which help converge CS terminology.
  • Looking for an intermediate product that provides the principles of SWE/Practice and point to the standards.  This would make the high level principles freely available without requiring the huge expenditures to buy the whole standards collection.  Would like to provide templates, books, etc. Hopes to have a prototype available in a few months for discussion.

5. Policies & Procedures [D. Schulz and C. Walrad]

  • Schultz is beginning to incorporate items for last Spring’s discussion of the Procedures. Will start sending the individual files out in next week or two.
  • Walrad has marked up through FP-8 by hand, and has started modifying the files.
  • The SOP doc has been re-submitted to SA AudCom, and has gotten feedback  -- mostly superficial language changes.  Officially approved SOP is now on the AudCom website.

5.    Strategic Planning [J. Walz]

  • Walz will work with Croll to prepare a big picture presentation for FTF.
  • Would be desirable to have coordination with SEI to gain alignment, e.g., SEI has a new CMM for SW Development that we were not involved with.
  • A large number of recent ISO management standards (e.g., security) should be looked at to see how they map to our standards.

6.    Winter FTF Meeting Planning [ All ]

  • Croll needs suggested agenda items.
  • Microsoft Research has agreed to host the meeting in their Mountain View offices outside of SF, CA for 27th Feb to 1st March. Unfortunately, MSFT will not be providing free refreshments.
  • Walrad to check for group rates at Quality Inn.
  • Walrad to try to find a MSFT process person to talk about their internal standards.
  • Walrad to make sure that power is available for laptops.

7.    Action item review [ All ]

 

Meeting adjourned at 1:30 p.m. EST


Next teleconference:  

       

Thursday, 25 January 2006, 12:30 PM EST