SPICE Trials Organization

A trials team has been established within the SPICE Project to administer the trials. The organization of the Trials Team parallels the overall project organization. The SPICE Trials team is responsible for planning the trials activities, designing the questionnaires and forms to support the trial assessments, developing a trials database to store the results of the assessments, collecting and analysing the data to report the results; and designing and providing a non-commercial benchmarking service to the Trials participants.

International Trials Coordinators

There are two International Trials Coordinators, with complementary responsibilities:

ITC - Data Management

To be advised.

ITC - Empirical Methods

Dennis Goldenson
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA15213-3890
USA
Email: dg@sei.cmu.edu
Tel: +1-412-268-8506
Fax: +1-412-268-5758

Regional Trials Coordinators

Regional Trials Coordinators are responsible for co-ordination of the trials activity at a regional level, co-operating with the LTCs in co-ordinating the trials in their region.There is a Regional Trials Coordinator in each of the geographical regions established for managing the project:

RTC - Europe

To be advised.

RTC - USA

Will Hayes
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA15213-3890
USA
Email: wh@sei.cmu.edu
Tel: +1-412-268-6398
Fax: +1-412-268-5758

RTC - Canada and Latin America

Victoria Hailey
GINIGL
11843 27th Avenue
Montréal, Québec HIE 6R9
Canada
Email : vah@vhg.com
Tel : +1 416 410 3400
Fax : +1 416 410 3433

RTC - Northern Asia Pacific

Kiyoshi Ogawa
Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute
Software Laboratory
3-4-41 Rokuban Atsuta-ku
Nagoya 486
JAPAN
Email:ogawa.kiyoshi@nmiri.city.nagoya.jp
Tel: +81 52 654 9947
Fax: +81 52 652 1458

RTC - Southern Asia Pacific

Angela Tuffley

Software Quality Institute
Griffith University, Nathan Campus
Queensland 4111
Australia
Email: A.Tuffley@sqi.gu.edu.au
Tel: +61 7 3875 5022
Fax: +61 7 3875 5207

Local Trials Coordinators

A number of organizations have volunteered to support the project by acting as Local Trials Coordinators. The Local Trials Co-ordinator will work with the RTC to deal with the increased workload in supporting organisations and assessors, to promote ISO/IEC TR 15504, and to ensure that all participants receive quick and efficient responses to questions and solutions to problems. Local Trials Co-ordinators will be established at a national level, organisational level, or through model/method providers. Each LTC is expected to co-ordinate at least one trial per year and to undertake significant promotion activities. Requirements for Local Trials Coordinators have been defined.

A list of approved Local Trials Coordinators is provided.