SCMG Meeting Atlanta
April 27, 2005

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Speakers:

Reed Mullen
IBM Corporation

Bill Bittner
IBM Corporation

Kevin Mobley
Kevin Mobley created and managed several software performance engineering teams, groups of highly experienced engineering and software specialists who not only have deep knowledge of web and CRM applications, UNIX and Microsoft, but of networking and messaging technologies as well. These teams have focused on one goal: making sure software systems are free of performance and scalability bottlenecks, inefficiencies, memory leaks and other related problems that can manifest as usage increases. Ten years of creating software systems for Fortune 1000 companies in financial services, retail and travel sectors, the Federal Government's defense department and the State Government of Georgia. Saved tens of millions of dollars for clients and employers by architecting and deploying high performance software systems. Generated a minimum of one million dollars yearly in consulting revenue for software performance engagements.

Libby Foster
Libby Foster is a software engineer with twenty years of experience managing, designing, and /or developing software in the gaming, medical, financial, and telephony industries. As a Director of Intellivoice Communications (acquired by PTEK, Atlanta, GA), she managed an engineering development team responsible for the delivery and technical direction of Voice Activated Dialing Products deployed in the Verizon-NY, Verizon-Atlanta, Frontier-Rochester cellular, and BellSouth-Macon land line markets. She is a co-author of a U.S. Patent entitled Data Acquisition and Error Correcting Speech Recognition System. She was the lead developer for the first touchtone, IVR, flight information system for Delta Air Lines and successfully designed and developed two entertainment, educational software products marketed and sold nationally.

Abstracts:

Virtualization Basics
Bill Bittner, IBM
(Presentation)

SPE Development: The Life-Cycle and Economics Toward Holistic Software Engineering
Kevin Mobley, Fidelity Information Services
Expanding Software Engineering beyond traditional functional development to include Software Performance Engineering (SPE)
increases the revenue and profitability of software companies; enabling customers to refocus program budgets on software licenses and
implementation services instead of infrastructure costs. SPE also improves software profit margin by eliminating the risks of performance SWAT teams. This paper will redefine software engineering's organizational structure, methodology and stakeholder
focus to include an integrated SPE program and demonstrate the associated economics.

Designing Performance Tools that Sell Performance
Libby Foster, Fidelity Information Services
Software Performance Engineering in the business world is not viewed as a necessity until there is a performance issue hampering a company’s ability to do business. A good performance tool will assist the developers to avoid performance issues yet be able to show management the cost savings that were realized by implementing performance in the early stages of development. This paper is a case study of how an in-house performance software tool can yield a win-win for the business and engineering sides of the house.

This paper proposes a theoretical application that will combine the complexities of satisfying a user from an HCI standpoint and using SPE in delivering applications with truly enjoyable user experiences.

Sponsors:

	BMC Software enables you to monitor and manage business services, along with the technology infrastructure supporting them—applications, data, systems and networks—simultaneously.
	FineGround offers integrated end-to-end performance optimization, monitoring and security of enterprise application infrastructure without requiring additional client software, server software, or server agents.