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Changes, by date:
 
  • New! 20081029
    - Welcome Dr. Qingfeng He to the blog!
    - Added AHEAD page. Updates to site map and publications pages are still pending, as are more paper PDFs.
    - Starting to slowly migrate static pages to the blog.
  • 20080528
    - Added sitemap plugin and page to blog; included 2nd patent on Karen's info pages and updated her research page.
  • 20080315
    - Started adding to home pages (also added the Wordpress widget for AddThis to the blog - it seems to have created a few oddities in the blog archive pages; need to fix that ...)
  • 20080121
    - Added blog RSS validation (OK). Fixed some HTML validation errors on the site (missing self-closing slash on the favico links) and in the blog (widgets.php used some shorthand on the embedded Javascript, and improper spelling of the onchange attribute in a select). Still need to validate the other pages of the blog, the main site pages which aren't in WP yet, and still need to fix a bunch of CSS validation errors.
  • 20080116
    - Added the paper comparing project management in Scrum and CMMI, which won the Best Paper award in its track, to the publications and conference pages. (link to PDF file pending) Changes to PDF file locations and bio for now-Dr. Jiang Zheng, and the site map, are still pending.
  • 20070607
    - Added a first-draft Wordpress (v2.3) blog and did minor CV/about page updates, including Aldo's return to ABB. Updates to site map and publications pages are still pending.
  • 20061128
    - Updated site to reflect recent conference participation, changes to training course plans, and retirement of older TUG proceedings pages from the SEI website.
  • 20060917
    - Updated Karen's about page to reflect her newly awarded transformer testing patent
  • 20060428
    - Updated site to reflect Dan Harbour's death and to further reflect Aldo's new position.
  • 20060228
    - Updated Aldo's about page and the About Us page to reflect Aldo's new directorship position at SAS Institute. Also updated Karen's pages where they referenced her ABB collaborations with Aldo, and to reflect current training plans.
  • 20051221
    - Updated Karen's about page and research page to reflect recent training and activities
  • 20051129
    - Added pages and offsite PDF links for ICSE 2005 and ISSRE 2005 papers on BACCI and I-BACCI (co-authored as part of ABB-NCSU collaboration)
    - PDF and link to SEI proceedings posted for TSP-EF presentation for TUG 2005
  • 20051003
    - Updated TSP-EF-related pages to link to the new central page; updated status to reflect wait for SEI permissions request for 1.0 beta release.
    - Updated TSP-EF presentation for TUG 2005 to include PDF of file presented at TUG (minor technical difficulties with Acrobat; file should be posted soon)
  • 20050927
    - Added page for TSP-EF to provide a central point of reference for TSP coaches to request copies of the materials (1.0 beta released). Updated site map accordingly.
  • 20050729
    - Added pages for TUG 2005 and the pending TSP-EF presentation for TUG 2005, plus a page for the BACCI paper accepted at the MPEC workshop at ICSE 2005, and links to her NCSU TR on static and dynamic analysis. Updated site map accordingly.
    - Updated index pages for Evaluation Frameworks, TSP-EF, RTP SPIN, TUG 2004, publications, and conferences accordingly.
    - Updated pages for Karen's CV and Karen's research to include recent publications, projects, and courses.
  • 20050520
    - Updated links page to include two new books and meeting/conference updates.
  • 20050516
    - Updated individual About Us pages to include photos and minor content updates.
  • 20050418
    - Updated Karen's research page to include recent paper collaborations with NCSU and IBM.
  • 20050329
    - Extended the translations of the footers on our Swedish-language home page.
    - Updated the links page with information on the recently completed SEPG 2005 and the upcoming TUG and European SEPG conferences
    - Updated Jan's page to describe his current coaching and conference committee activities
  • 20050323
    - Added Swedish-language home page!! (the entry point from agileteams.se), added to the site map and the English home page
  • 20050320
    - Minor updates to the about us and paper pages.
  • 20050316
    - Posted PDF of SEPG 2005 presentation on TXP
  • 20050215
    - Removed outdated links to 2003 TUG presentations - they are no longer available on the SEI website.
    - Updated outdated link to ABB Corporate Research Technical Publications abstract for "Comparing Agile and TSP".
  • 20050126
    - Updated author lists on Evaluation Frameworks.
  • 20050110
    - Updated Karen's research paper list to include co-authorship of IASTED (SEA2004) paper on ADEPT.
  • 20050109
    - Updated Aldo's bio to include IASTED (SEA2004) paper on ADEPT and 3 papers for the CMMI Users Group 2004.
  • 20050105
    - Added pages and posted PDFs of IASTED (SEA2004) paper on ADEPT and TXP paper for SEPG 2005. Updated publications and conferences pages accordingly.
    - Added Evaluation Frameworks index page
    - Updated Karen's research page to reflect PhD in progress, plus completed and pending papers at the Scrum Gathering (October), IASTED (November), and SEPG 2005.
    - Updated teaching page to reflect Fall 2004 guest lectures on testing. (PDFs pending)
  • 20040827
    - Posted PDFs of TUG 2004 papers submitted to SEI today on TSP-EF (here) and TXP (here). Updated TSP-EF paper title on various publication pages.
    - Updated Karen's research page to reflect pending papers at the Scrum Gathering (October) and IASTED (November).
  • 20040825
    - Updated links to Brian Robinson's CWRU page.
    - Added a few more article and book links
  • 20040805
    - Posted draft v0.6 of Crystal-vs-TSP presentation on papers comparing agile and TSP.
    - Added a few more article links (from the StickyMinds testing repository)
  • 20040803
    - Updated author lists to reflect Laurie Williams' role as a full co-author on the TSP-EF papers, at her request.
    - Simplified author references to single URLs only (no mailto links).
    - Made clickable New! icons (except the others on this page) to bring website users to this page for a quick reference to what's changed.
  • 20040723 - Some initial recommended links for Users' Groups, Conferences, Discussion Lists, Published Papers, Online Articles, and Books
  • 20040721 - Added a page for the RTP SPIN meeting presentations and updated related pages accordingly.
  • 20040714
    - Expanded Aldo's page (it still needs some more updates) and added a page for Aldo's many papers (not online yet).
    - Added a site map and privacy statement.
    - Revamped the page footers to be more compact, provide mouseover text, and include links to the new site map and privacy statement pages.
    - Replaced all GIFs on site with PNG images (See why we've gone GIF-free ... )
    - Added PNG background image from http://www.pngart.com/
    - Made some changes to make progress on improving the site's W3C CSS and HTML compatibility ... not there yet, but getting closer.
  • 20040709
    - Added pages for the planned series of TXP papers and series of TSP-EF papers,
    - Added individual pages for TUG 2004 papers on TXP and TSP-EF.
    - Restructured the publications page, created a page listing papers grouped by conferences instead of by date,
    - Incorporated pages on the SEPG 2004 and TUG 2004 conferences.
    - Made some minor updates to the 'about' pages and the papers on agile and TSP for consistency with these modifications.
  • 20040520 - Updated Karen's page to reflect PhD program acceptance and the new Triangle XP Users Group home page.
  • 20040502 - Updated Publications page to reflect latest paper postings.
  • 20040408 - Posted v2.0 of RTP SPIN paper (presented + supplemental slides in PDF) to Agility and the Team Software Process.
  • 20040310 - Added v0.99 of paper (presented slides in PDF) to Launch Lessons Learned.
  • 20040309 - Added v0.9 of paper (PDF) Launch Lessons Learned.
  • 20040220
    - Updated to v0.7 (with feedback from Ken and Noopur) the paper comparing Scrum and TSP.
    - Refactored Karen's page to separate out her research and deployment work.
    - Refactored page on TUG 2003 paper to put the supplemental materials comparing agile and TSP onto their own page.
    - Updated publications page and SPIN 200403 paper page accordingly.
  • 20040218 - Added v0.6 of paper (PDF) comparing Scrum and TSP.
  • 20040129 - Minor updates to 'about us' pages for Jan and Karen.
  • 20040114 - Minor updates to copyright page and scripts for 2004.
  • 20031217
    - Added abstract pages for Agility And the Team Software ProcessSM and Overview of CMMI and SPI at ABB.
    - Reworked all external links to pop up nicely in a separate window, and shift focus. (The Javascript routine was already written and in use, but not everywhere on the site.) Note - on Firebird, it switches focus when it opens the window anew, but not if it was already open.
    - Centralized the writing of common external links, e.g. SEI and ABB.
  • 20031216
    - Added abstract page for Comparing Agile and TSPSM (TUG 2003).
    - Centralized HTML generation for legalese and common SEI terms.
    - Fixed a tiny bug in the Javascript routines which caused a trailing space to show up on the page after the generated code fragments.
  • 20031215
    - Added abstract pages and uploaded PDF files for two papers (Launch Lessons Learned, for SEPG 2004, and TSP vs. the Gate Model).
    - Updated the Publications page.
    - Added a biography page for Jan Höglund and linked it to the About Us page.  
  • 20031209
    - Added pages for the ASPI group and SEPG 2004 presentations (both unconnected at first).
    - Added mouseover title text to mailto links.
    - Discovered that the bookmarking script is inert in the Firebird browser.
    - Added links for downloading Adobe® Reader® v6.0+ to the About Us, Teaching, and Publications pages.
    - Removed FTP site references from all pages ... for some reason, accessing them via browser is unbearably slow and often times out, whereas http downloads from the site folders don't.  
  • 20031204 - Added PDF icon to the Teaching and Publications pages, and enabled right-clicking these icons to download our PDF files via HTTP. Posted more of Aldo's presentations and lectures. Refined stylesheet and footer contents.  
  • 20031203 - Added this What's New page  
  • 20031202 - Added Javascripted mailto links, stylesheet, and automatic footer generation  
  • 20031107 - Initial version of this site put online.


Coming Soon:
 

  • Lots more links and some new book references  
  • Posting of presentations being prepared for SAC 2009 and SEPG 2009 (look for them around the end of March)  
  • More papers, abstracts for all papers, and pages concisely summarizing them by topic and by author.