DATE: Thursday, January 18, 2007

TIME: 7:15 a.m. - Registration and hot buffet breakfast
8:00 a.m. - Presentation begins
10:00 a.m. - Adjournment

PLACE: Travelodge Hotel & Convention Centre, Ottawa West
1376 Carling Avenue
Greenery Room
Parking is free

Cost: $40.00 (includes 6% GST)

SPEAKER:

Anatol W. Kark
Group Leader, Software Engineering Group,
National Research Council, Canada Co-Editor of ISO/IEC 12207 Revision

ISO 101 and what is happening with ISO/IEC 12207, ISO/IEC 15288 and other such numbers.
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ISO/IEC Software and System Life Cycle Process Standards and their ancillary standards have become a way-of-life in many organizations – leading to process improvements and assessments. These standards are a matter of policy for Treasury Board and government acquisition of software systems, and are used extensively in the defence and aerospace, telecommunications and in enterprise software development.

The two cornerstones standards – ISO/IEC 12207 and ISO/IEC 15288 are currently undergoing a concurrent major revision process and have reached a “Final Committee Draft” (FCD) status. ISO also has an initiative under way to help small and medium enterprises adapt the software engineering standards and guidelines to their needs.

As these standards are important to the Canadian software and systems development communities, the presentation will:

• describe the standards’ development process;
• describe the main forces that are motivating changes to the current versions of ISO/IEC 12207 and ISO/IEC 15288;
• provide a short introduction of the two standards;
• walk the audience through the current ISO/IEC 12207 and ISO/IEC 15288 drafts;
• describe the current progress on the guidance document under development by ISO on tailoring 12207 for small to medium enterprise; and
• explain how you can influence and contribute to the development of these standards and guidelines.

In this session, you will benefit from:

• gaining an understanding of how International software engineering process standards are developed and adopted;
• gaining knowledge of the way ahead for software and system life cycle process standards;
• the knowledge gained in charting the evolution of your own organisational software processes; and
• discussing concerns and sharing ideas on software process issues for small and medium enterprise.

Who Should Attend:

• software and system engineering managers’ currently using or considering ISO 12207 and 15288 standards for their process framework;
• program and project managers of software development and maintenance organisations;
• CIOs, CEOs, VP Engineering and engineering directors of small and medium enterprises;
• software and system process professionals;
• software engineering process group leaders and members;
• individuals responsible for developing Statements of Work (SOWs) and Requests for Proposals for acquiring software engineering services; and
• individuals responsible for preparation of proposals that invoke ISO 12207 for software engineering work.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Anatol W. Kark joined the Software Engineering Group at the National Research Council, Canada in 1991, where he carried out research
in the area of software life cycles, software cost estimation and software support mechanisms. Since 1998, Anatol has been the Group Leader of
this group. He has been involved in the Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER), an industry driven research consortium, since its
inception, having served as an Operations Manager and currently as Research Director for the organization.

He is a member of the Standards Council of Canada and a Canadian representative to ISO/JTC1 SC7. He is currently the co-editor of the revision of
ISO/IEC 12007. He is also member of the working group developing the guidance document on the use of ISO standard for Small and Medium Enterprise.

Prior to joining NRC, Anatol spent 20 years in the industry in various capacities, the last one being Director of R&D at Philips Electronics in Montreal, managing a large software development team. Anatol holds M. Math/Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo, obtained long before
software engineering was a popular phrase.

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