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2010-06-17: Vector USA Consulting Roadshow: Safety, Lean/Agile, PLM/ALM (USA, August 2010)

Roadshow in USA

Vector will show its consulting solutions and experiences in the USA. We will be there in the timeframe of 17. to 25. August 2010 in Detroit, New York and others. The mode will be a "Roadshow" with visits to companies to discuss needs, solutions and our own benchmarks. This Roadshow is for free and sponsored by Vector America. A tutorial at prestigous IEEE Conference on Global Software Engineering will be open to the public.

With the industry just emerging from the global economy crisis and many uncertainties concerning the years 2010 and beyond still in front of us, we offer you exclusive insights into current trends and developments to help you excel even under these difficult conditions.

Christof Ebert, Managing Director of Vector Consulting Services, a renowned international consultant and industry expert, will have presentations on several hot topics: 

• Electronics engineering efficiency and ways how to improve it. We will dive into lean and agile technieques and look into how to improve your own development.·
• Functional safety and ways how to implement it. A critical topic due to the forthcoming publication of the automotive safety standard ISO 26262.
• Requirements Engineering tools, methods and emerging trends. We will look to tools, elicitation techniques, certification and to the emerging ReqIF standard.
• Product life-cycle management (PLM) solutions and how make the change a success. We will present our experiences with introducing PLM/ALM solutions.
• Global engineering, supplier management and collaboration in distributes teams.

You are very welcome to join our events. We will arrange those roadshow events according to needs at different places. Just contact us with your specific inquiries and questions. So far we have scheduled as follows:

• 17. - 20. August in Detroit, Northern and Midwest
• 21. - 25. August in New York and East

Contact us here so we can arrange a meeting at your convenience. 

Dr. Christof Ebert is managing director at Vector Consulting Services. He is helping clients worldwide to improve product development and product strategy and to manage organizational changes. Prior to that, he held engineering and management positions for fifteen years in telecommunication, IT, transportation and aerospace. An internationally renowned keynote speaker, SEI certified CMMI Instructor, area editor of the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge and steering chair of the IEEE conference series on Global Software Engineering, he teaches at the University of Stuttgart and authored several books including his most recent book “Global Software Engineering” published by Wiley/IEEE in 2010. Contact him at christof.ebert@vector.com

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