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Carnegie Mellon West is pleased to offer two professional development options for busy working professionals – an Expert Speaker Series and Two-Day Intensive Courses.
Whether you attend an Expert Speaker event or a Two-Day Intensive Course, Carnegie Mellon West’s professional development events are focused and application driven, challenging you to immediately apply what you have learned.
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The Expert Speaker Series features a wide range of subject matter experts in business and technology who share their research, knowledge, and skills during an informal evening discussion.
09.14.06: Steve Wozniak: Engineering As An Art Form...
Microsoft, 1065 La Avenida Street, Building 1, Mountain View, CA, 94043 09.14.06, 6:30 PM
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Overview
“Art without engineering is dreaming; engineering without art is calculating.”
-- Anonymous
Great engineering occurs when the fields of engineering and art collaborate to create stun...
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03.27.06: Prospects for Direct Assurance for Applications Software...
William Scherlis,
Carnegie Mellon West, Building 23, room 118 03.27.06, 6:30PM
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The Fluid Project is creating practicable tools for programmers to assure and evolve Java software at scale. The focus of the project is on the "mechanical" program properties that tend to defy tradit...
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02.21.06: Rise & Fall of Webvan: Perspective from the Trenches...
Sarah Baker,
Building 23, Moffett Field CA 02.21.06, 6:00PM
to 8:30PM
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Overview:
Webvan was one of the largest .com failures. This presentation is a perspective of the company from within and what can be learned from it.
Who Should Attend:
Anyone interested or inv...
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02.1.06: Total Access Marketing and Persistent Presence...
Regis McKenna,
Building 23, Moffett Field CA 02.1.06, 6:00PM
to 8:30PM
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Overview:
This talk addresses the future of marketing as computers and the network do most of the work, from data gathering to customer care and response. The marketing function disappears into a netw...
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01.18.06: Revolutionizing Software Quality through Analysis Tools...
Jonathan Aldrich,
Building 23, Moffett Field CA 01.18.06, 6:00PM
to 8:30PM
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Software analysis tools are revolutionizing the quality of the software delivered by today's industry leaders. Large vendors such as Microsoft use static analysis to find bugs, eliminate security hol...
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01.10.06: Organizational Patterns for Software Product Management...
Jamie Dinkelacker,
Building 23 Room 118 01.10.06, 6:00 PM
to 8:30 PM
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This talk brings together essential notions related to software product management along with emerging work on pattern languages related to organizational performance. It introduces these topics, pres...
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11.30.05: XP AND CMM – EFFECTIVE COLLABORATION...
Mark Paulk,
Building 23, Moffett Field CA 11.30.05, 6:00PM
to 8:30PM
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XP focuses on building a software product; CMM(I) focuses on organizational transformation for improving the capability of organizations that build software products. While the objectives are differen...
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10.19.05: Software Architecture: Past, Present, and Future...
David Garlan,
Building 23, Room 118 10.19.05, 6:30 PM
to 7:30 PM
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ABSTRACT of Presentation
Over the past decade software architecture has received increasing attention as an important subfield of software engineering. During that time there has been considerable pro...
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09.14.05: Managing Creativity To Achieve Innovation...
Peter Boatwright,
Carnegie Mellon West 09.14.05, 6:30-8:30 PM
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Peter Boatwright, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Marketing at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an author of the new book, The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary...
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08.17.05: Cross Border Alliances...
William Reinfeld,
Carnegie Mellon West 08.17.05, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
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Please join us for an engaging evening with Professor William Reinfeld on
Wednesday, August 17 at 6:30pm. He will be providing insights into the
concepts of executing and managing cross-border allianc...
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The Two-Day Intensive Courses are carefully designed to provide busy executives with a focused and immersive experience in one particular subject area.
04.18.06: Mature Software Project Management...
Mark Paulk,
Buliding 23 Room 118 04.18.06, 9 AM
to 04.19.06, 5 PM
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2-Day Intensive Course
April 18-19, 2006
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Effective project management is a prerequisite for meeting commitments, yet all too many software projects fail to meet expectations for fun...
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02.21.06: Effective Product Management...
Martin Cagan,
Building 23, Moffett Field CA 02.21.06, 9:00 AM
to 02.22.06, 5:00 PM
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Overview
The product manager is responsible for coming up with the right product at the right time. But where do you find product opportunities? What is it that makes a great product? How do you evalu...
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