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					  <title><![CDATA[Can software engineering teams adapt biological principles?]]></title>
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Ken Thompson, speaking at the 2006 SPICE Conference in Luxembourg facilitated an interactive session with leading practitioners and researchers in the field of Software Process Improvement (SPI) on this challenging question 'Can software engineering teams adapt biological principles?'
Ken is an ex-software engineer and now works to improve the effectiveness of all kinds of teams including software engineering teams.
&#34;Nature's best teams demonstrate neither thinking nor beliefs, they are it is simply stimulus-response engines, yet they can achieve things totally out of proportion to their size and brainpower&#34;. But can our software engineering teams, which perhaps represent the pinnacle of intensive knowledge-based teamwork, learn anything from these &#8216;bioteams&#8217;? 
Ken first introduced the results of research carried out over the last two years in the area of bioteaming. 
This has resulted in a &#8216;bioteaming manifesto&#8217; with 12 practical rules for making a team more effective through biological principles. 
At the conference we then used the manifesto in a unique real-time interactive session using mobile phones and wireless internet to stimulate ideas on how these principles might be adapted for software engineering teams?
As part of the conference we also initiated a research survey to establish the impact of team member beliefs on software team performance. 
Here is the Conference keynote&#160;To download a PDF of Ken's presentation click here]]></description>
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					  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[SPICE 2006]]></title>
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The Sixth International SPICE ConferenceSoftware Process Improvement and Capability dEterminationwill be held in Luxembourg on
3rd (tutorials) 4th and 5th (conference) May 2006
The SPICE User Group is pleased to announce the Sixth International SPICE Conference, to be held at the Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg from 3rd to 5th May, 2006. This Conference follows on from the success of previous SPICE conferences, and builds upon the achievements of the International SPICE Symposia held on a regular basis since 1994.
The full programme and registration details are now available at the website
http://www.spice2006.com 
The 2006 Conference will mark the full publication of ISO/IEC 15504.]]></description>
					  <author>alec.dorling@impronova.com (Alec Dorling)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[SPICE 2006 Conference Luxembourg 3-5 May 2006]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.isospice.com/articles/41/1/SPICE-2006-Conference-Luxembourg-3-5-May-2006/Page1.html</link>
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The Sixth International SPICE ConferenceSoftware Process Improvement and Capability dEterminationwill be held in Luxembourg on
3rd (tutorials) 4th and 5th (conference) May 2006
The SPICE User Group is pleased to announce the Sixth International SPICE Conference, to be held at the Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg from 3rd to 5th May, 2006. This Conference follows on from the success of previous SPICE conferences, and builds upon the achievements of the International SPICE Symposia held on a regular basis since 1994.
The full programme and registration details are now available at the website
http://www.spice2006.com 
The 2006 Conference will mark the full publication of ISO/IEC 15504.]]></description>
					  <author>alec.dorling@impronova.com (Alec Dorling)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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