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• 05/07/10Summer Break: Please watch for the announcement of the September meeting.
• 05/07/10 May Meeting was held on 05/06/10: "Maturity Level 4 Results in a LOT of BS" by Pat O’Toole from PACT
• 03/22/10 April Meeting announced: "Agile Transformation: Adopt, Scale, and Sustain" by Sinan Si Alhir, Redpoint Technologies was held, watch for info from meeting.
• 02/22/10 March Meeting announced: "Lessons Learned Using Earned Value Management System to Track Progress Weekly at the Individual and Team Level and Detect a One-Day Schedule Slip" by Girish Seshagiri, CEO of Advanced Information Services
• 02/09/10 February Meeting announced: "Effective Processes for Software Teams: Training and Execution" by Mark Sebern, Professor and Program Director for Software Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering And Abubakr Khan, Engineering Manager in Enterprise Applications, Solutions, and Infrastructure, Johnson Controls, Inc.
• 01/25/10 Improve Your Software Engineering Skills with these books. Click here for more information.
• 01/04/10 January Meeting announced: "Cloud Computing as it Relates to Service Delivery" by Steve Krenz, Project Manager, Compuware Corporation. Click Here for presentation slides.
• 11/20/09 Milwaukee SPIN does not meet in December. Please watch here for the announcement of the January 21st, 2010 meeting.
• 10/16/09 November meeting announced: Our Fourth Annual CxO Roundtable. The meeting was held on Thursday,11/19/09.
• 10/16/09 October meeting announced: "Nouns and Verbs -- Domains, Actors, and Use Cases" by Tomette J. Kirk, CBAP, a Senior Consultant for SysLogic, Inc. The meeting was held on Thursday,10/15/09. Click Here for presentation slides.
• 10/05/09 The Chicago SPIN group meeting on November 12th, 2009 will feature Dan Galorath's presentation 'Total Cost of Ownership: Development is (Only) Job One.' Click here for more information.
• 08/26/09 September meeting announced: "Lessons in Leadership—Increasing your Leadership IQ" by Paula Riesch, a Project Management Discipline Leader with Trissential. The meeting was held on Thursday, 09/17/09.
• 08/14/09 The Wisconsin chapters of the International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA) are hosting the third annual Wisconsin Business Analyst Development Day (WI BADD) to be held on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at the Alliant Energy Center Exhibition Hall, Madison, Wisconsin. More information and registration is available at the "event website."
• 07/17/09 Milwaukee SPIN welcomes Silver Sponsor Centare Group, LTD. Click Here to visit their website
• 07/15/09 SPIN is on vacation during June, July, and August. Watch this website for details about our next meeting to be held Thursday, 09/17/2009.
• 07/01/09 Training Cancelled: Milwaukee SPIN, in conjunction with Requirements Quest®, presents a TRIPLE PLAY SAVINGS EXTRAVAGANZA!
• 04/20/09 Click Here for presentation slides from the April 16th, 2009 meeting "Get Your Users "IN" the Doghouse and Keep Yourself Out - Defining Nonfunctional Requirements" by Roxanne Miller, CBAP, President of Requirements Quest.
• 04/16/09 May meeting announced: interactive panel discussion on "The Role of QA in an Agile Environment". The meeting will be held on Thursday, 05/21/09.
• 03/19/09 April meeting announced: "Get Your Users "IN" the Doghouse and Keep Yourself Out - Defining Nonfunctional Requirements" by Roxanne Miller, CBAP, President of Requirements Quest. The meeting will be held on Thursday, 04/16/09.
• 03/10/09 March meeting announced: "The Essential Business Analyst: Agent of Change" by Linda Finley of Trissential, LLC . The meeting will be held on Thursday, 03/19/09.
• 03/03/09 Click Here for presentation slides from February's meeting "Application Lifecycle Management: Align Your IT Investment with Your Business Goals" by Edward Chaltry of Centare Group Ltd.
• 03/02/09 March meeting announced: "The Essential Business Analyst: Agent of Change" by Linda Finley of Trissential, LLC . The meeting will be held on Thursday, 03/19/09. Location and registration available soon.
• 03/02/09 Free Training Announcement: "The International Institute for Software Testing (IIST) announces a FREE event on March 12th, 2009
• 02/09/09 February meeting announced: "Application Lifecycle Management: Align Your IT Investment with Your Business Goals" by Edward Chaltry of Centare Group Ltd. The meeting will be held at Children's Hospital, Oakwood Facility on Thursday, 02/19/09.
• 01/09/09 January meeting announced: "Manage Risk in an Uncertain World" by Scott Stribrny of Group Atlantic, Inc. The meeting will be held at Northwoods Software Inc. (4600 West Schroeder Dr, Brown Deer, WI) on Thursday, 01/22/09.
• 11/04/08 November meeting announced: The Third Annual "Evening with the Executives" moderated by Bob Stachowiak of STACK Technologies. This CxO Roundtable will be held at Wells Fargo on Thursday, 11/20/08.
• 10/16/08 Click Here for presentation slides from October's meeting "Don't Just Test ... Validate!" by Michael Lawler of Technisource/Spherion.
• 10/02/08 October meeting announced: "Don't Just Test ... Validate!" by Michael Lawler of Technisource/Spherion. The meeting will be held at Northwoods Software Inc. (4600 West Schroeder Dr, Brown Deer, WI) on Thursday, 10/16/08.
• 09/18/08 Tonight's SPIN meeting has been CANCELED due to illness.
  "Manage Risk in an Uncertain World: It's the Future of How Businesses Will Be run" by Scott Stribrny, Cofounder, President, and Managing Director of Group Atlantic, Inc. The speaker will present at a future meeting. We regret any inconvenience.
• 09/02/08 September meeting announced: "Manage Risk in an Uncertain World: It's the Future of How Businesses Will Be run" by Scott Stribrny, Cofounder, President, and Managing Director of Group Atlantic, Inc., to be held at the Milwaukee School of Engineering on Thursday, 09/18/08.
• 08/28/08 Open Position: Webmaster for the SPIN website. Please consider helping Milwaukee SPIN by serving as Webmaster. Our current site is custom PHP/MySQL. The site could easily be transitioned to a content management system or web development environment our your choice. Please contact the President at milwaukeespin.com if interested. Thanks!
• 06/03/08 SPIN is on vacation during June, July and August. Watch this website for details about our next meeting to be held on Thursday, 09/18/2008.
• 05/02/08 May meeting announced: "Practical Application of Test Automation Frameworks" by Lee Barnes, Founder and CTO of Utopia Solutions to be held at the Milwaukee School of Engineering on Thursday, 05/15/08.
• 04/20/08 Click here for presentation slides from March's meeting "Doing the 'nearly impossible' relatively easily - how to measure, manage, and control change, culture, workforce alignment/focus, and organizational politics." by Jim Stanton, founder of Perception Management, Inc.
• 03/26/08 April meeting announced: "Doing the 'nearly impossible' relatively easily - how to measure, manage, and control change, culture, workforce alignment/focus, and organizational politics." by Jim Stanton, founder of Perception Management, Inc. to be held at the Milwaukee School of Engineering on Thursday, 04/17/08.
• 02/27/08 March meeting announced: "Right Requirements, Right Now: Strategies for Successful Software Projects" by Scott Stribrny of Group Atlantic, Inc. to be held at Trisept Solutions on Thursday, 03/20/08.
• 02/25/08 Click here for presentation slides from February's meeting "Putting the engineering in software engineering: Technology infrastructure in process improvement" by Nada daVeiga of Parasoft.
• 02/18/08 Speaker change: Thursday's presentation, "Putting the engineering in software engineering: Technology infrastructure in process improvement" will be delivered by Parasoft Manager Nada daVeiga instead of Dr. Dorota Huizinga and Dr. Adam Kolawa.
• 01/30/08 February meeting announced: "Putting the engineering in software engineering: Technology infrastructure in process improvement" by Dr. Dorota Huizinga and Dr. Adam Kolawa to be held at Metavante Corporation on Thursday, 02/21/08.
• 01/21/08 Click here for presentation slides from January's meeting "Assessing Your Agility" by Kenny Rubin of Innolution, LLC.
• 01/03/08 January meeting announced: "Assessing Your Agility" by Kenny Rubin of Innolution, LLC to be held at Rockwell Software on Thursday, 01/17/08.
• 12/12/07 SPIN will not meet in December. Happy Holidays.
• 10/18/07 November meeting announced: The Second Annual "Evening with the Executives" moderated by Keith Korsi of Trissential. This CxO Roundtable will be held at Wells Fargo on Thursday, 11/15/07.
• 09/20/07 October meeting announced: "The Hidden Truths about IT Outsourcing" by John W. Mishler, Ph.D., visiting Scientist with Carnegie-Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI). The meeting will be held at Children's Health Systems on Thursday, 10/18/07.
• 08/21/07 We're back! Help us start the 2007-08 SPIN season by attending "Designing a Testing Approach to SOA" by Michael Lawler of the Spherion Corporation. The meeting will be held at Northwoods Software Inc. (4600 West Schroeder Dr, Brown Deer, WI) on Thursday, 09/20/07.
• 06/01/07 SPIN is on vacation during June, July, and August. Watch this website for details about our next meeting to be held Thursday, 09/20/2007.
• 05/08/07 SPIN member discounts available on software testing training classes to be held in Chicago in the summer of 07.
• 04/15/07 May meeting announced: "Separation of Duties: Why projects deserve a Project Manager and a Business Analyst"" by Dave Debruine and Michelle Burke of Trissential. The meeting will be held at Direct Supply (6663 N Industrial Road, Milwaukee) on Thursday, 05/17/07.
• 03/19/07 The Milwaukee SPIN will hold its annual elections on the 5/17/2007 during the SPIN envent at Direct Supply, Inc. Members that have attended at least three SPIN events in the past 12 months are eligible to vote.
• 03/15/07 April meeting announced: "Facilitation Tips- How to Handle Problem People" by Roxanne Miller of RequirementsQuest. The meeting will be held at MSOE (1025 N. Broadway, Milwaukee) on Thursday, 04/19/07.
• 03/15/07 Milwaukee SPIN has become a sponsor of the MSOE's software testing competition, the "Bug Stomp." See the Bug Stomp Website for more information.
• 03/05/07 Nominations are now open for Milwaukee SPIN Board positions. Please contact us if you would like to make a nomination, or if you are interested in serving on the Milwaukee SPIN Board.
• 03/01/07 March meeting announced. "Risk-based Testing Strategies" by Michael Lawler of the Spherion Corporation.
• 02/28/07 New Milwaukee SPIN website design. Send us email if you have questions, concerns or suggestions.
• 02/23/07 The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) released a new SPIN brochure. It can be downloaded at the SEI SPIN website.