Software Best Practices Conference to be Held in New York, NY on November 1, 2007

CAI and the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute are hosting a one-day seminar in New York, NY on November 1, 2007 that will show CIOs and senior IT practitioners how to leverage software best practices to dramatically improve the productivity and quality of their software development and maintenance organizations.

New York, NY (PRWEB) May 25, 2007 -- CAI and the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute are hosting a one-day seminar in New York, NY on November 1, 2007 that will show CIOs and senior IT practitioners how to leverage software best practices to dramatically improve the productivity and quality of their software development and maintenance organizations.

The conference will include keynote presentations by Watts Humphrey, Founder of the Software Process Program at Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Dr. Vic Basili, Director of the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering at the University of Maryland, Capers Jones, noted author and Chief Scientist Emeritus of Software Productivity Research, Tony Salvaggio, President of CAI and Founder of the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute, and Bob Lawhorn, CTO of CAI. The venue for the conference will be the Marriott Marquis at 1535 Broadway. The event is a full day catered affair with breakfast and lunch included.

To read more about our speakers, please visit our online repository of thought leader interviews at http://www.itmpi.org/interviews.

The registration fee is $695.00. Group rate and early bird discounts are available. To register for this event, please visit our event registration page at http://www.itmpi.org/events. For telephone registration please call us at 610-530-5225.

This conference is being organized by the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute (ITMPI), an organization founded by CAI and dedicated to the promotion of best practices in IT. The Institute advances the work of organizations and individuals who are focused on the role of metrics and process management in the creation and support of software. For more about the Institute, please contact Michael Milutis, the Institute's Executive Director. For information about the Institute's weekly webinar program, please visit http://www.itmpi.org/webinars.

Computer Aid (CAI) is an IT outsourcing firm that has been providing software development and maintenance services to Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies for over 25 years. For more information about CAI, visit us on the web at http://www.compaid.com.

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