First day at SEPG…booth setup and meeting partners
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007Monday, 26th March was the first day at SEPG 2007, Austin. A quick dash from Austin airport to be in time for the exhibitor hall opening at 5 PM !
After a very bumpy (lot of turbulance) ride over to Austin the Osellus team - represented by Chandra Bhople and I started setting up our booth at the exhibitor hall. As I had mentioned earlier, we are sharing a booth with Microsoft along with two other partners. Ajoy and Clementino are representing Microsoft. Serge from Fujitsu Consulting and Eric from Ivar Jacobson Consulting are in kiosks next to us within the overall Microsoft booth. Juan from Personify Design is also here. I knew Ajoy, Clementino, Serge and Juan from earlier interactions and it was nice to meet Eric. All I can say there is a formidable process-specific brain trust residing in booth 515 over the next 3 days…..We got the booth setup before the exhibitor hall opening at 5.00PM on Monday evening.
The first day saw many familiar faces visiting the Osellus kiosk at the Microsoft booth. It was nice to get the opportunity to update them on the next generation tooling we have built with new versions of IRIS Process Author and IRIS Process Live and Metrics. This being an SEI event, it also gave a chance to show some of the CMMI specific functionality including reporting functionality built within our tools and also get some feedback on extending and adding more report formats to get out-of-the-box reporting from our tools.
The buzz I got from the day was a need to get processes out there, in the field, in a quick manner, preferably in a way that supports incremental development of these processes on getting feedback from practioners rather than a herculaen or big-bang approach in creating/introducing processes….more on this later.
