waiting for SPICE2010 Crowdvine site :)

Hi all, We had a nice time during visit to SPICE Conf & made so many friends. Thanks to everyone (arrangers, sponsors, presenters & attendees), who made it a success. I request the hosts of http://www.spiceconference.com/ to update the site appropriately, to declare the completion of event in all respects i.e. updated schedule, summary/takeaways, next conf. announcement etc We also await presentations of all sessions to be uploaded to this portal... [read more]

Just curious to know how diff. SPICE flavors are spinned off ? Typically who are the stakeholders and is there a std flow/process ? e.g. currently media/entertainment or homeland security kind of sectors are not affected by downturn - so is there a need for SPICE flavor for them ? will it make sense to benchmark based on SPICE ? Cheers, ~Ravindra

There is considerable innovation in knowledge management processes and practices from the traditional textbook approaches - especially in high maturity organisations. What approaches to knowledge management are your organisations using. How can the latest technologies be used to good effect.

Ravindra Joshi: Agree, since the subject matter is KM - there is plenty in print as well as online. However what I have seen working invloves following * social networks - based on people networks or CoP (Communities ) * portal/repositories - serach, indexing & tagg... [read more]

4) community maps - can each attendee attempt something like 'community maps' and then fan out i.e. what/whom does attendee represent, how that community will benefit due to SPICE2009 conf, what takeways will the attendee disseminate when they go back etc 5) Metrics - can we think of specific & measurable outcome metrics for the conf. success ? They maybe efficiencywise like no. of attendees intended/invited v/s registered/ attended, sessions adh... [read more]

Can we have something on following lines 1) For all 'registered' attendees some lucky draw (sur) prize- maybe during social event slot 2) Some 'popular' prizes for best presentation, fresh thought/idea, substancial improvement approach (which can be immediately useful for main SPICE, or its flavors) etc. Presenters can 'choose' to contest in advance, ratings need to be gathered via randomly distributed feedback forms [on lines of passanger survey... [read more]

A Study Group was established by SC7 at its plenary meeting in May 2008 with the goal of establishing detailed requirements for the revision of ISO/IEC 15504. The Final Draft of the Study Group Report is released (7 April 2009) for final review prior to the SC7 Plenary meeting during the last week in May 2009. The Study Group report will then be formally issued as the basis for the revision and the next generation of the standard. SPICE User Grou... [read more]

The Tutorial Program has been added to the Program Schedule. You can now select the tutorials you are attending on your personal schedule

There is a small bug in Crowdvine that I have reported. If you sign in as new member your profile is not updated on your personal page with the talks that you are giving. For the moment I will periodically update this as new members come on board - that is until Crowdvine fix the problem.

The SPICE Academy is the successor to the SPICE Project. The Academy’s overall objectives are to
Promote the consistent implementation of the standard
Co-ordinate industry trials and/or benchmarking of the standard.
Promote the technology transfer of process assessment to the industry
Support an environment which encourages worldwide recognition of conformity assessment results
Provide model interpretations of process outcomes and indic... [read more]