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The software project management body of knowledge is gradually being renewed across the entire lifecycle. In the conception phase, the focus is on fostering innovation through new approaches such as business analysis and crowdsourcing techniques. In the construction phase, the rise of global software development has shrunk the world and led to new approaches to risk management that take into account factors such as cultural diversity. In the project conclusion phase, new approaches to the evaluation of project success are being introduced, such as project retrospectives and intellectual capital reporting. Conversely, long accepted approaches to measurement and evaluation such as those promoted in the Chaos reports of the Standish Group are being called into question. More »
Call for EIC applicants: The IEEE Computer Society seeks applicants for the position of editor in chief of IEEE Software, serving two-year terms starting 1 January 2011. Applications due 1 March 2010.
Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute and IEEE Software magazine are collaborating on the 6th Annual SEI Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference, to be held in Minneapolis, Minn., 17-21 May 2010. Acclaimed author and leader of the agile movement Jim Highsmith will be a keynote speaker. He is coauthor of the Agile Manifesto, a founding member of the Agile Alliance, coauthor of the Declaration of Interdependence for project leaders, and cofounder and first president of the Agile Project Leadership Network. IEEE Software will publish selected papers from the conference. IEEE Software subscribers will receive a 15% discount on conference and tutorial fees.
Barry Boehm wins the 2010 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal “for leadership in and innovative solutions to the integration of systems engineering and software engineering.” Boehm shares appointments in the USC Epstein Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Dept. of Computer Science. He founded USC’s Center for Software and Systems Engineering in 1993. Boehm is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE, AIAA, ACM, and INCOSE. Boehm plans to contribute his full honorarium to the research of his Viterbi School PhD students, whose grants often run out before their work is done. The medal is named in honor of the distinguished engineering contributions of Simon Ramo, former vice chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee of TRW.
