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            <title>The 2007 Software Best Practices Webinar Series</title>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;My company, &lt;a href="http://www.compaid.com/"&gt;Computer Aid, Inc.&lt;/a&gt;, is the sponsor for &lt;a href="http://www.itmpi.org/"&gt;The IT Metrics and Productivity Institute&lt;/a&gt; (ITMPI), and the ITMPI is hosting some interesting webinars during the course of the year. I'm going to be presenting in October on Test Driven Design, using VSTS and other tools to show examples of TDD cycles. This is going to be fun for me since I used to do many presentations and just started getting into webinars before leaving Microsoft at the end of 2005. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/"&gt;webinar info web site&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;The Software Best Practices Webinars Series is a not-for-profit educational program aimed &lt;/span&gt;at improving the practice and management of software development and maintenance w&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;orldwide. &lt;br /&gt;
Topics covered in 2007 will include: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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                &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;Software Measurement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;Software Project Estimation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;Software Testing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;Software Project Management&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;Software Benchmarking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;Rapid Application Development&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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                &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;Legacy Systems Support&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;Agile Development&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;Software Six Sigma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;IT Project Governance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;Outsourcing Best Practices&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Each webinar will feature an expert speaker&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt; who has extensively researched and successfully applied best practice principles to the development and maintenance of software. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;These webinars are free, as is the newsletter that you can sign up for at the ITMPI web site.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6cda6ad746d942b9a1110d0715a4fa12&amp;u=112167"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6cda6ad746d942b9a1110d0715a4fa12&amp;u=112167" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://ads.geekswithblogs.net/a.aspx?ZoneID=5&amp;amp;Task=Get&amp;amp;PageID=31016&amp;amp;SiteID=1" width=1 height=1 Marginwidth=0 Marginheight=0 Hspace=0 Vspace=0 Frameborder=0 Scrolling=No&gt;
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