SQI–SEETAC 2003

[Flashback Post: 3/March/2003]

I attended the “The Watts Humphrey” Software Quality Institute (SQI) event SEETAC 2003 today. Following are some of the items I am writing here from the notes taken on that day.

• Every 5 years 50% of software professionals drop out from the industry
• There is no way to manage large numbers of people, only Military & Factories are doing it
• Software is always detailed work
• If its automatic it means you can’t fix it yourself!
• Over the years the percentage of software controlling a fighter pilot’s functionality has increased
  • 1960: F-4 – 8%
  • 1982: F-16 – 45%
  • 2000: F-22 – 80%
• 5000 vulnerabilities are found in Software every year
• 80,000-100,000 Internet attacks happen every year. Only 4% of it gets reported
• Our job in the industry is to transform poorly understood and rapidly changing requirements into precise machine statements
• Never make a commitment without a plan
• It is always fastest to do the job right the first time
• It if didn’t have to work, you could built it pretty quickly
• An expert developer can do 25-50 lines of code an hour
• Quality without numbers is just talk
• A TSP Coach to train the people can make them do disciplined work
• A good book is Winning with Software: An Executive Strategy by Watts S. Humphrey
• Opportunities to collaborate with SEI in Carnegie Mellon are listed here.