IEEE S2ESC Teleconference: Meeting #161
October 9, 2008

Present (P) or Not Present (NP):

P

Paul Croll

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

NP

Annette Reilly

Management Board, 15289 WG Chair

NP

Carl Singer

Management Board

P

Chuck Walrad

S2ESC Secretary

NP

Dave Schultz

Vice Chair, Operations & Mgt Board Chair

NP

Dennis Lawrence

S2ESC Archivist

NP

David Phillips

 Chair,
Study Group on Use of Standards by Small Businesses

NP

Jim Moore

Vice Chair, International Operations and Liaison to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7

P

Joe Jarzombek

DHS Liaison

P

John Walz

Vice Chair,
Planning, SAB Chair

P

Keith Middleton

Management Board

NP

Ken Costello

Management Board

P

Lou Gullo

 

Reliability Society liaison,  AudCom member, also Std Chair working group P1633 & P1624

NP

Mark Henley

Chair,
Web Planning Group, S2ESC Webmaster

NP

Mary Beth Chrissis

SEI Liaison

P

Malia Zaman

Program Manager, IEEE-SA S2ESC liaison

P

Markus Plessel

IEEE staff – Marketing

NP

Randy Case

Head of INCOSE Standards Cmte (S2ESC Liaison[1])

NP

Elliot Sloane

HITSP liaison, College of Clinical Informatics at Villanova University

NP

Susan Tatiner

Director, Standards Publishing Programs, IEEE SA

NP

Todd Cooper

Chair of IEEE 11073 Standards activities

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

Announcements

Congratulations to John Walz on his election as First Vice President of the Computer society.

1.     Standards Status Report [M. Zaman/ D. Schultz]

·        NesCom administrator wants an extension for 1016 maintenance.  It’s already gone to ballot, so it seems unreasonable to require this.

·        AR: Walz to bring this objection to ProCom in December. (JWW to compose language for ProCom on those cases such as 1016 when balloting has started and both PAR and Maintenance dates need to be extended. This extra paper work and record changes is needless as both SA and Sponsor actions would never cancel the “late” project.)Also these record changes clutter up the Sponsor annual activity measures.

·        1490 (PMBOK) also needs an extension to start (Oct. 20) and complete re-affirmation

·        Keith requested withdrawal of 1644 (Software Nomenclature - Software Naming Conventions for Application Software). The PAR has expired. Agreed.

·        Zaman posed a question from Jodi Haasz on P1648 about whether we were doing this jointly with SC7, who has said they want it.  Croll affirmed that our intent is to published 1648 next year and then revise with SC7.

2.  Standards for Students [Plessel]

·        The list of standards to be included was reviewed and minor changes suggested.  Walz to circulate the list with today’s revisions to the ExCom for approval. All comments must be in by Oct. 17. We also need to add a section on the S2ESC standards process.  Croll to ask Moore to supply this.

·        Plessel wants to keep the price of this collection comparable to that of engineering textbooks.

·        Plessel will investigate current avenues for bulk sales to university bookstores so that students can have this as part of the “toolkit” they take to their first jobs.

3.  PieMatrix tool [ Walz, Walrad, Phillips ]

·        We think this is a good avenue for making our collection more visibility and could serve as a model for going to SWLC tool vendors.

·         SA will have to decide what type of licensing/approval is needed, if any royalties should be involved.

·        S2ESC will have to determine what oversight/approval of representations it needs.

·        AR: Walz to head up ad hoc group and set up LIveMeeeting  (Walz, Walrad, Moore, Croll)

4. S2ESC Standards Purchasers Demographics [ Plessel ]

·        Plessel asked for ExCom ideas on what demographics should be addressed.  Walz said that some data has been captured in BMS

·        AR: Walz will be the contact point.

5. Contributions to SSTC 2009 [Croll]

·        See www.sstc-online.org. The conference will be back in Salt Lake City in 2009.

·        Croll has received about a dozen proposals for talks at SSTC. He will summarize and send out to us.

·        Also working with Ann Wu (CS) to include SE education (CSDP/CSDA) tutorial at the conference.

 

6. Request to Include P1694 in S2ESC Collection

 

·        This WG has lost its sponsor and needs a new home. We feel that it fits naturally within our scope.

·        AR:  Croll will send an e-mail to the WG Chair and other persons (Chair, Gary DeGregorio, Michael Menke Co-Chair, Steve Mills, IEEE-SA CAG Sponsor Chair ) on the requesting e-mail agreeing that S2ESC will house the WG if they accept the following 4 conditions:

1. Agree to follow S2ESC P&P

2. Provide a list of WG leaders

3. Short press release to attract more WG membership

4. Change PAR title to add “IT”

 

6. Strategic Planning [ Walz ]

·        As our executive committee was quite engaged in our planning activities at our F2F meeting, those meeting minutes have been the source of our strategic & tactical planning activities. Chuck, Paul, Dave, & John have had weekly LiveMeeting discussions three times with the next one scheduled to determine our articulate and fine-tune our strategies, tactics, and priorities to support our Mission. Currently we have a seven page table with 30 rows of tactics supporting our six mission parts.

·        Next step is to determine Measures, Goals, and Assignments

 

7. Winter FTF

 

Walrad suggested she could explore the possibility of having a local university (UC San  Diego, San Diego State University) hos the FTF. Croll mentioned that we have several contacts there. Walrad and Croll to discuss off-line.

 

Next Telecons:

                        Thursday, 6 Nov 2008, 12:30 PM ET

                        Thursday, 4 Dec 2008, 12:30 PM ET

 

Instructions for Telecon:

 

at 12:30 PM EDT call (517) 267-1465, followed by participant code 946433.


[1] This group does not create standards, but act as SMEs in the systems standards  area, becoming heavily involved in the development of standards by ISO, IEEE, and on the balloting of standards.