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MONDAY 18th OCTOBER
CONFERENCES PROGRAMME
TUTORIALS
9:00 Looking for my fittest process' model
Enrique Morey
European Software Institute (ESI)
Spain 		Managing a Technical Workforce: Building Process Capability Requires Developing Capable People
Gian Wemyss
Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
USA
12:00 LUNCH
13:30 OPENING REMARKS
  KEYNOTE
14:00 Dr. Paul Nielsen, Director and CEO, Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
"Taming Complexity"
15:00 BREAK
  TRACK 1 TRACK 2
  Agile practices and CMMI Product lines
15:15 Agile-of-the-shelf: techniques for lean software product lines
Kiril Karaatanassov and Igor Stoyanov
VMware & ESI Center
Bulgaria 		Sweet Spots of Process Discipline and Software Product Lines
Paul Clements
Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
USA
16:00 Optimizing the software development process by integrating Agile methods with CMMI model
Tsvetelina Kovacheva
Musala Soft
Bulgaria 		The Product Line Unified Modeler Approach to Software Product Lines, market experiences
Joseba Laka
European Software Institute (ESI)
Spain
16:45 BREAK
  Six sigma for Software Engineering Effective SPI - 1
17:00 Six sigma in software process
Georgi Tsonev
Johnson Controls Electronics Bulgaria EOOD
Bulgaria 		Towards an Effective Process Improvement Platform: Spago4Q and the QEST nD Model
Luigi Buglione, Ernesto Damiani and Frati Fulvio Fulvio
1Engineering Group & Università degli Studi di Milano
Italy
17:45 Application of Six Sigma and Psychometric studies to requirement specifications
Radouane Oudrhiri
Systonomy
UK 		Challenges and misconceptions of SPI in very big and very small organizations
Katalin Balla
SQI
Hungary

TUESDAY 19th OCTOBER
  KEYNOTE
09:00 Ralph Mueller, Director, Eclipse Foundation
"Eclipse - an Open Source Innovation Network"
10:00 BREAK
  TRACK 1 TRACK 2
  Metrics and Software Quality Effective SPI - 2
10:15 If software quality is so important, why is it so often ignored?
Hans Sassenburg
Se-cure
Switzerland 		CMMI DEV can work for us- SINFIC, SA Case Study
Isabel Ferreira
SINFIC
Portugal
11:00 Measurement and Analysis, where do I start?
Enrique Morey
European Software Institute (ESI)
Spain 		Improve Software Development Processes Using Kaizen
Irina Secuiu
Freescale Semiconductor
Romania
11:45 BREAK
  Human factors Best practices
12:00 Developing skills for software engineering in Europe
John O’Sullivan
UK 		Practical Approach to Functional Testing for SMEs
Yasser Ghanim, Hossam Osman and Gamal Aly
SECC
Egypt
12:45 Managing Change: the Human Factor in Process Improvement Initiatives
Christophe Debou
KUGLER MAAG CIE
Poland 		PMO: getting projects under control quickly via putting in place minimum set of processes
Hrayr Ter-Nikoghosyan
National Instruments Armenia
Armenia
13:30 LUNCH
PANEL: Business benefits for SPI
15:00 Process Improvement in Times of Crisis: Mission Impossible?
Christophe Debou
KUGLER MAAG CIE
Poland 		Measuring ROI for Process Improvement – Industry Results
Jay Douglass
Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
USA
15:00 Are the IT Mark and CMMI useful for the business?
Oleg Macari
F-line Technologies
Moldova 		Innovation, Investigation , Development, Technology, Clustering, Competitiveness ; six edges of a bucket dimensional required by the society
Luis Jimenez
ESI PC LA
Chile
16:30 BREAK
16:45 PANEL: Donors support programs for regional capacity and competitive IT brand
18:00 CONFERENCES CLOSURE
19:30 GALA RECEPTION. Place: Archeological Museum – 2, Saborna Street (Presidency Square)

WEDNESDAY 20th OCTOBER
USAID/RCI Regional Workshop
"Building Regional ICT Competitiveness"
"BY INVITATION ONLY"