About the Speaker:
Kurt Papke is a software development manager at VERITAS (soon to be Symantec).
He has managed software people and projects in many different industries in the
Twin Cities in the last 28 years including manufacturing automation at 3M,
grain elevator automation, computer graphics at Dicomed, and two medical
device companies: Sanofi Diagnostics (now called Beckman-Coulter) and Angeion.

In addition to his industrial experience Kurt has been on the adjunct
faculty in the Graduate Programs in Software at the University of St.
Thomas for the last 4+ years where he has been teaching Software
Project/Process management to Master's degree students. Teaching
by night and practicing by day he sees both the theory and actual
practice of how software projects do (and don't...) work.


About the Topic:
Software development projects are notorious for being late, over-budget,
buggy and de-scoped. Things haven't really improved as much as hoped in
the last 40 years. Why is that? What are the latest techniques to improve
the situation, what problems will they solve and what problems will they
create? One of the latest trends is towards increased emphasis on PMI
certification for project managers, will this finally be the Silver
Bullet we've been waiting for?

Location:
The meeting will be held at the offices of J. Gordon Electronic Design at 500 73rd Avenue NE, Suite 105, Minneapolis, MN.

Directions from I694:

Exit onto University Avenue going north. University is the second exit to the east of the Mississippi River. Take University to 73rd Avenue.
Turn right (east) on 73rd and look for Northco Drive on the right hand side. Turn right on Northco. J. Gordon is in the first building on the left. Enter via the south door with a green canopy.



For more information about the meeting call Dave Hendrickson at (612) 267-3617
or email address- daveh  at computer  dot  org

 Cost:

Free for EMS members and non-members attending for the first time; $10 otherwise.  Refreshments will be provided.

Registration:

Please pre-register, if possible, before noon on December 16 (so we know how much food to bring) by using the online registration form at:

 http://www.tc-ieee-ems.org/meetingregistration.htm