IEEE S2ESC Teleconference Meeting #152
January 17, 2008

Attendees:

Paul Croll

S2ESC Chair and TCSE Chair (also VP for Tech Activities for IEEE Systems Engr Council)

 

 

Annette Reilly

Management Board, 15289 WG Chair

Carl Singer

Management Board, CASE Tools interconnection 1175.x WG Chair

Chuck Walrad

S2ESC Secretary

Dave Schultz

Management Board Chair

Dennis Lawrence

Management Board, 1028 WG Chair

Jody Haasz

IEEE-SA

Joe Jarzombek

DHS Liaison

John Walz

CS Vice President for Standards

Keith Middleton

Management Board

Ken Costello

Management Board

Malia Zaman

IEEE-SA Pgm Mgr for S2ESC to help WG Chairs

Mary Beth Chrissis

SEI liaison

Susan Tatiner

IEEE staff:  Associate  Managing Director of Technical Program Development

Call to order: 12:35 p.m. EDT


1.   Standards Status Report [M. Zaman]

1.1    Ballot and PAR status/issues

             See Attachment 1.

2.    New VuSpec Standards Collection

·           CD-ROM version is very nice, has hyperlinking within the standards documents, but the links and the versions of standards included haven’t yet been validated – S2ESC needs to do this. The problems noted with the assessment tool attached to it should not delay release of this – it can be released separately.

·           At FTF, we need to address the issue of whether the “assessment tool” can be salvaged for any useful purpose for users. This will be on the agenda.

·           SA will send copies via snail mail to the S2ESC for our review.  (Can we get documentation from the contractor on the mapping of the link paths? This and any other questions can sent to Zaman prior to the FTF.)

3.    Pilot Project

IEEE is considering entering into strategic partnerships with other standards bodies, and would like to use S2ESC as a pilot project. We welcome this opportunity.

4. SSTC 2008 (Systems and Software Technology Conference)

·           Program is at

http://www.sstc-online.org/participant/schedule/grid.cfm?day=Tuesday

·           For the first time in the 20-year history of this conference, the conference organizers (USAF) are doing this in cooperation with the IEEE, the IEEE CS and the CS Technical Council of Software Engineering.  This is a major step forward in developing alliances with significant conferences.

·           Systems and software engineering standards will be covered by several speakers. There will be a CSDP tutorial and an opportunity to take the CSDP certification exam,

5.    Strategic Planning [Walz]

·        Walz is providing guidance to WGs to not contradict the CMMi.

·        Walz and Land are working on ways to give greater recognition to those experts who contribute to standards development, such as webcasts and podcasts.

·        Reilly reported that The Vision and Mission subcommittee (Reilly, Walrad, Walz) has distributed their proposed revision to the V & M; after a minor revision, it will be presented to the group for ballot either before or at the February FTF.

6.    Winter Meeting Planning [All]

All: Please send agenda items to Croll ASAP.  Walrad will confirm with Google about the availability of a projector and outlets for laptops, as well as internet access, and will find out if we will eat in the Google cafeteria or off-site.

7.    Action item review [All]

Walrad and reminded folks that they should update their items in the spreadsheet on sharedinsights.

8. Other

Walrad reported that PMI is still having difficulties getting the proposed nw PMBOK rev up on the web for review. Once it is available, Walrad will provide a communiqué agreed with PMI for distribution from IEEE SA for IEEE CS members to participate in the review of the exposure draft of PMBOK v4, due for publication in 2008. (The mechanisms agreed on will assure that CS reviewers’ comments are given equal consideration as PMI reviewers, and that CS commenters will be responded to wrt disposition of their individual comments.)

 

Meeting adjourned at 1:45 p.m., EDT

Next teleconference:  

March 6, 2008 12:30 PM EST