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Issue 16 – July 2010

  • How to Win Hearts & Minds for your Next Change Programme
  • Reducing IT Costs : Improving IT Service Levels
  • Components of a well-formed User Story
  • Sizing User Stories with COSMIC
  • Energizing CMMI: The Case for Real SPI
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Issue 15 – January 2010

  • Lean Enterprise Architecture
  • extreme Measurement
  • CMMI for Services
  • The CMMI, Innovation and Creativity
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Issue 14 – September 2009

  • Agile Edge
  • SMS Webinar: Outcomes and Open Source: How CIOs can delight the Board
  • Effective Project Management
  • Achieving Real Improvement – how to champion effective software process improvement
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Issue 13 – June 2009

  • Systems thinking: consensus on the Darwinian approach to software process improvement
  • Capability, maturity and effectiveness.
  • Outcome Based Agreements
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Issue 12 – March 2009

  • Improving Productivity
  • How effective is your product development?
  • Effective Metrics
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Issue 11 – 2008 Yearbook

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Issue 10 – November 2008

  • Are all executives unethical?
  • Knowledge-based management for Rightshifting performance
  • Beyond agility:
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Issue 9 – August 2008

  • Capers Jones: A Short History of LOC:
  • UKSMA means business
  • Enhancing Technology
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Issue 8 – May 2008

  • Delivering Return on Investment from Software Process Improvement.
  • IT Challenges
  • You’re (back) fired!
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Issue 7 – January 2008

  • Delivering Value from: Benchmarking
  • Outsourcing
  • Measurement for Automotive SPICE
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Issue 6 – November 2007

  • Measuring Performance, Delivering Value
  • Process Improvement & CMMI Forum
  • SMIF
  • FPA Public Training
  • IT Spending Under Pressure
  • itMPI Webinar programme
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Issue 5 – September 2007

  • Trends in IT Management
  • FSM Pilot Study
  • Report on the ESEPG07
  • FPA Public Training
  • 6 events in software best practice
  • Measuring Performance: Delivering Value
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Issue 4 – June 2007

  • Managing Project Risk
  • Thought Leadership Workshop report
  • Lean Look to ESEPG 2007
  • SEI’s Benchmarking Initiative
  • Relative Sizing
  • IFPUG 4.2 exam
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Issue 3 – March 2007

  • Current Issues with Outsourcing
  • Thought Leadership Workshop
  • European SEPG 2007
  • SEI’s Benchmarking Initiative
  • Managing and reducing risk
  • Practical Use of FPA
  • Software Measurement and Improvement Forum Report: Delivering business value
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Issue 2 – February 2007

  • SMS welcomes a new associate
  • SMIF: Metrics for Accountants
  • BCS: Award for COSMIC
  • British SPIN
  • CMMI v1.2
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Issue 1 – October 2006

  • Outsourcing: Ensuring good governance
  • Estimating Large, Complex programmes
  • Making Software Measurement Valuable
  • How fit are your processes
  • BCS Award for COSMIC
  • Join the ISBSG/COSMIC Benchmark study
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