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  • 8/22/2013SEPG CMMI Conference in Pittsburgh: SEPG North America: The CMMI Conference is coming soon, but there is still time to register. This year’s conference program will include content perfect for you if you are: -Beginning to implement--or considering implementation of—CMMI -Seeking resources and best practices for integrating CMMI and Agile practices -Interested in taking your process improvement game up a level -a fan of rivers, boats, bridges or baseball Check out the conference agenda here: http://sepgconference.org/sepg-north-america-agenda/ and when you register, enter the promotional code “LinkedInSPIN” to save $100 on your fee. Book before September 1st to get a discount on your hotel room, as well. Get the details on the website (http://sepgconference.org) and email sepg@cmmiinstitute.com with any questions. See you in Pittsburgh! Katie Tarara
  • 3/22/2013Special Book Offer from Roxanne Miller: LIMITED TIME, SPECIAL OFFER Save over 40% of suggested retail on The Quest for Software Requirements. At checkout, enter promotion code: mkespin2013 Promotion expires: 03/31/2013, 11:59 pm CDT FREE shipping is available within the USA Save an additional $5 when you purchase Software Requirements Questions. Discount automatically taken at checkout.
  • 3/3/2013Cars.com Slides Now Available: Slides from the Cars.com event hosted in March are now available. Click on Events. See the link to the presentation below "Event files".
  • 3/3/2013New MSPIN Platinum Sponsors: NRC and West Bend Mutual!: Milwaukee SPIN would like to thank our latest Platinum Sponsors: New Resources Consulting and West Bend Mutual Insurance!
  • 3/3/2013User-Centered Design (UX) Slides now available: Slides from Gail Swanson are now available on the Events tab. Scroll down to Event Files within that presentation.
  • 3/3/2013NEW Platinum Sponsor - Marquette University: Milwaukee SPIN would like to thank our latest Platinum Sponsor - Marquette University (MS in Computing Program)
  • 9/26/2012Transforming a Worst Nightmare Leader to a Situational Leader Slides now available: Slides from Dave Neuman are now available on the Events tab. Scroll down to Presentation Link.
  • 3/19/2012Board Member Elections: Milwaukee SPIN will be holding its annual elections for all of its board member positions in its May presentation meeting on 5/17/2012. Please contact one of the board members present at one of our upcoming presentation meetings, if you are interested in becoming a Milwaukee SPIN board member. We look forward to hearing from you!
  • 1/19/2012Slides from User Stories for Collaboration: Steve's slides are now available. Click on Events. See the link to the presentation below "Event files".
  • 11/2/2011Offer for free Executive Updates: Click here to access the offer to get three free Executive Updates (courtesy of Scott Stribrny, President and Managing Director of Group Atlantic and the speaker of our October 2011 meeting).
  • 7/25/2011Milwaukee-Agile Meetup: Software Projects Are Easy To Manage: Milwaukee Agile is holding a special meetup event at Robert W. Baird on August 2nd. We hope you can join us! Jim Benson is our guest speaker... learn details about the topic and him by visiting the Meetup site: http://www.milwaukeeagile.com/events/26653631/ When: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 5:45 PM Where: Robert W Baird & Co 777 East Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53202 If changes affect your plans to attend, please take a moment to update your RSVP. (You can RSVP "No" or "Yes".) You can always get in touch with me through the Contact Us link on Meetup. This message was sent by Todd Nilson (tnilson@sprinc.com)
  • 5/26/2011Slides Available from May 19 Agile Testing Event: Slides from "Quality Assurance in an Agile Environment from a Tester's Perspective" by Steve Amstadt are now available on the Events tab. Scroll down to Event Files.
  • 4/8/2011Red Arrow Labs - Open House May 12th: Red Arrow Labs, the software development division of New Resources Consulting, has moved into a new space and is hosting an open house to celebrate. Join them to meet the team and see why Red Arrow is Milwaukee’s up-and-coming pure development house. They will have food, drink and presentations showcasing innovative processes and technology they use. Learn more about the event by clicking: http://bit.ly/fwoC9v
  • 3/25/2011Java User Group - Mobile Development: The next Wisconsin Java User Group meeting will be held next Tuesday, March 29th, 2011. This meeting will be held at: Wells Fargo (see WJUG website for directions Curious about mobile development? - by Max Rahder Worried about the learning curve for iOS or Android? There are easier alternatives! Max will demonstrate how to create a mobile application using the open source tool Sencha Touch, an HTML5 Javascript framework. In addition, Max will contrast Sencha Touch with the alternatives of doing native Android programming, using PhoneGap (a native/HTML5 hybrid) and WidgetBox (a hosted wysiwyg service). Max Rahder is a Madison-based Java developer and architect, who also does training in Java, Sencha Touch and Ext JS. He currently works as the lead designer of AccuLynx, a software-as-a-service used in the construction industry. AccuLynx uses Ext JS for its front end, and Amazon Web services for storage and other cloud services. http://www.wjug.org/wjug/nextmeeting.jsp
  • 3/15/2011Elections for Board of Directors: Milwaukee SPIN is going to hold elections for Board of Directors positions in its May 2011 membership meeting. More information will be provided to members in March and April meetings. If you are interested in helping Milwaukee SPIN continue to grow and continue to provide services to its membership, please contact any of our current board members at those meetings. We look forward to your participation!
  • 9/23/2010New SPIN Board Approved by Members: The Milwaukee SPIN Board for 2010/2011 was approved by SPIN members at the September 16th event. President: Kemal Kepenek, Vice President:Gary Parker, Secretary: Craig Dedo, Treasurer:David Putnam, Program Chair:Tom Janik, Membership Chair:Bob Stachowiak, Nominations Chair: Tim Dooley, Directors At-Large:Barry Mazin, Alicja Poplawska, Dave Curtis, Amanda Hendrychowski
  • 9/21/2010NEW Milwaukee SPIN Website!: The www.milwaukeespin.com website was reconstructed by Red Arrow Labs over the summer. Work was completed in August - in time to send the announcement for our kick-off September event. Our THANKS to Red Arrow Labs for the development of the site and New Resources Consulting for the sponsoring the initiative!
  • 5/7/2010May Meeting was held on 05/06 /10: "Maturity Level 4 Results in a LOT of BS" by Pat O’Toole from PACT
  • 3/22/2010April Meeting announced: "Agile Transformation Adopt, Scale, and Sustain" by Sinan Si Alhir, Redpoint Technologies was held, watch for info from meeting.
  • 2/22/2010March 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
  • 1/4/2010January Meeting announced: "Cloud Computing as it Relates to Service Delivery" by Steve Krenz, Project Manager, Compuware Corporation. Click Here for presentation slides.
  • 11/20/2009Milwaukee SPIN does not meet in December.: Please watch here for the announcement of the January 21st, 2010 meeting.
  • 10/16/2009November meeting announced: Our Fourth Annual CxO Roundtable. The meeting was held on Thursday,11/19/09 .
  • 10/16/2009October 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.
  • 10/5/2009The Chicago SPIN group meeting on November 12th, 2009 will feature Dan Galorath's presentation 'Total Cost of Ownership Development is (Only) Job One.':
  • 8/26/2009September 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 .
  • 8/14/2009The 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." :
  • 7/17/2009Milwaukee SPIN welcomes Silver Sponsor Centare Group, LTD. Click Here to visit their website:
  • 7/15/2009SPIN is on vacation during June, July, and August. Watch this website for details about our next meeting to be held Thursday, 09/17/2009.:
  • 7/1/2009Training Cancelled: Milwaukee SPIN, in conjunction with Requirements Quest®, presents a TRIPLE PLAY SAVINGS EXTRAVAGANZA!
  • 4/20/2009 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.:
  • 4/16/2009May meeting announced: interactive panel discussion on "The Role of QA in an Agile Environment". The meeting will be held on Thursday, 05/21/09 .
  • 3/19/2009April 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 .
  • 3/10/2009March 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 .
  • 3/3/2009Click Here for presentation slides from February's meeting "Application:
  • 3/2/2009March 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.
  • 1/9/2009January 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 .
  • 11/4/2008November 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 .
  • 10/16/2008 Click Here for presentation slides from October's meeting "Don't Just Test ... Validate!" by Michael Lawler of Technisource/Spherion.:
  • 10/2/2008October 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 .
  • 9/18/2008Tonight'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.:
  • 9/2/2008September 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.
  • 8/28/2008Open 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 atMilwaukeeSpin.com if interested. Thanks!
  • 6/3/2008SPIN 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.:
  • 5/2/2008May 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 .:
  • 4/20/2008 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.:
  • 3/26/2008April 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 .
  • 2/27/2008March 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 .
  • 2/25/2008Click here for presentation slides from February's meeting "Putting the engineering in software engineering Technology infrastructure in process improvement" by Nada daVeiga of Parasoft.:
  • 2/18/2008Speaker 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.:
  • 1/30/2008February 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 .
  • 1/21/2008 Click here for presentation slides from January's meeting "Assessing Your Agility" by Kenny Rubin of Innolution, LLC.:
  • 1/3/2008January meeting announced: "Assessing Your Agility" by Kenny Rubin of Innolution, LLC to be held at Rockwell Software on Thursday, 01/17/08 .
  • 12/12/2007SPIN will not meet in December. Happy Holidays.:
  • 10/18/2007November 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 .
  • 9/20/2007October 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 .
  • 8/21/2007We'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 .:
  • 6/1/2007SPIN is on vacation during June, July, and August. Watch this website for details about our next meeting to be held Thursday, 09/20/2007.:
  • 5/8/2007SPIN member discounts available on software testing training classes to be held in Chicago in the summer of 07.:
  • 4/15/2007May 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 .
  • 3/19/2007The 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.:
  • 3/15/2007April 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 .
  • 3/15/2007Milwaukee SPIN has become a sponsor of the MSOE's software testing competition, the "Bug Stomp." See the Bug Stomp Website for more information.:
  • 3/1/2007March meeting announced.: "Risk-based Testing Strategies" by Michael Lawler of the Spherion Corporation.
  • 2/23/2007The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) released a new SPIN brochure. It can be downloaded at the SEI SPIN website.:

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