4.D Practitioners ad hoc Committee

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4.DPractitioners ad hoc Committee

• John Harauz
• Prepared for IEEE CS SAB, 28 Mar 2008
• For Computer Society Internal Use Only

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New Practitioners Committee

• The New Practitioners Committee accepted as a
  Community of Interest (CoI) by Stephanie White
  under TAB that no longer exists.
• It will become a CoI under the Technology and
  Conferences (T C) Board - Joseph R. Bumblis is
  the Vice President.
• New Practitioners Committee will fall under the
  Technical Activities Operating Committee Vice
  Chair Shukri.
• Joe will continue to lead this committee with
  Shukri's approval.

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New Practitioners Committee

• Joe Bumblis
• Paul Croll
• John Daniel
• Harvey Freeman
• John Harauz
• Jim Moore
• TK Ramesh
• Shukri Wakid
• John Walz
• Pierre Bourque

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Our Response to The Need

• Committee established during the May 2007 BoG
  meetings in LAX.
• First teleconference on June 19, 2007.
• Many preliminary ideas discussed.
• New Practitioners Group in SharedInsights.
• Second teleconference on July 9, 2007.

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Recent Activities

• High-level Goals
• This committee should be a concentration of
  practitioners to identify the value
• needed by industry/government to make the CS
  and ComSoc attractive in the
• areas of membership, conference attendance,
  services, etc.
• If we can succeed at identifying value, then we
  will need to identify how to
• create this value
• Thus group will need membership that represents
  the many areas of industry
• and government probably the software and
  systems engineering
• communities would be a good start and
• We will need to visit key industry and
  government leaders with a solid proposal
• regarding how the CS and ComSoc will add value
  to their organizations and
• help enhance the effectiveness of their
  technical workforce.

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The Need

• The Computer Society and Communications Society
  have experienced a significant decline in
  industry and government participation in
• Conferences (attendance and governance)
• Membership
• Services (purchased products), and
• Volunteerism

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The Need

• Both CS ExCom and Hay Group consultants
  recommended 2.3 Launch a campaign to attract
  more industry practitioners as IEEE-CS
  membership is only 5 of 4 million Computer IT
  employees in US
• Identify and engage industry and government
  leaders to identify their needs and mechanism for
  working with the entities through surveys,
  consultations and forums
• What organizational changes are required at the
  CS level?
• IEEE SA has a corporate advisory group at the BoG
  level

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The Need

• PPC has plans for an Industry advisory group for
  SWEBOK.
• What do the top twenty companies supporting CS
  today want from CS in the future?
• Who are these companies in terms of
• Members
• Volunteer leaders
• Subscriptions
• Conference attendees

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The Need

• According to the Computer Society 2007 Membership
  Survey
• Those the most happy with the current
• CS structure are Ph.D.s in academia.
• Those the most unhappy with the current
• CS structure are everyone else.

To Illustrate
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Recommendations per Deb Cooper, Membership
Committee, May 18, 2007

• We talk about reaching out to the practitioner
  but have not defined the term
• Possible near-term working definition to
  establish focus
• software developers
• employed in industry
• bachelor degree
• 20-45 years
• Regions 1-6 (and those with similar needs)

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Recommendations to improve appeal (per Deb
Cooper, Membership Committee, May 18, 2007)

• Access to practical content related to my work
• Tutorials, case studies, technology
  comparisons, suggestions on how to educate
  management on technical matters, less
  theory/academic orientation. Training VS
  Enlightenment
• Help find solutions to technical problems.
• As much focus on finding as on solutions
  database/web-based support, better
  indexing/searching, improving interface to
  finding and retrieving information.
• Offer discounts on professional and personal
  services
• Broaden range of discounted offerings,
  improvement competitive of discounts, make them
  work outside US, inform members about them.

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Practitioners Committee Additional
Recommendations

• Access to Practical Content
• Speakers at Chapter meetings on standards
• Podcasts on standards
• Webcasts on standards
• Ready Notes on standards
• Books on standards Annual Practitioner Conference
• Help find solutions
• IEEE Expert Now on www.ieee.org/web/education/Expe
  rt_Now_IEEE
• CS provides members channel for recording and
  selling Webcasts (audio based PowerPoint)

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Practitioners Committee Additional
Recommendations

• Offer discounts
• For example, offer IEEE Software Systems
  Engineering Standards collection on CD-ROM to CS
  TCSE CS S2ESC members at a discount

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TCSE's Practitioner-related Conference Activity

• Developed a technical co-sponsorship ("in
  cooperation") relationship with the DoD Systems
  and Software Technology Conference.
• The IEEE CS and TCSE logos will be displayed on
  the conference web site and on promotional
  materials.
• A full week IEEE CS track, including the CSDP
  tutorial at the front end and the CSDP exam at
  the back end. The ten presentation slots have
  been filled as follows

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Ten Presentation Slots

• Developing Complex Systems - Recommendations for
  an Integrated Systems/Software Engineering
  Process Dr. Stephanie White, Long Island
  University
• Global Harmonization of Systems and Software
  Engineering Processes - James Moore, MITRE
• The Real World Application of International
  Process and IEEE Software and Systems
  Engineering Standards to Software Process
  Improvement Initiatives Susan Land, MITRE
• Professionalizing the Practice of Software
  Engineering James Moore, MITRE
• A new model curriculum for a masters degree in
  Software Engineering - Dr. Arthur Pyster and Dr.
  Richard Turner, Stevens Institute of Technology
• Practices Make Perfect Leveraging Your
  Engineering and Management Practices To Meet the
  Software Assurance Challenge , Paul Croll, CSC
• Results of the First IEEE Systems Safety Workshop
  Dr. Bret Michael, Naval Postgraduate School
• Creating an Independent Verification and
  Validation Program based on the IEEE 1012
  Verification and Validation Standard Ensuring
  NASA
• Critical Mission Performance, Ken Costello, NASA
• Reverse Engineering panel Part 1 Elliot
  Chikofsky
• Reverse Engineering panel Part 2 Elliot
  Chikofsky