News

• 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. Click here for more information and registration.
• 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. Click here for more information.
• 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.