Software Best Practices Conference to be Held in Tampa, FL, on April 17, 2007

Tampa, FL (PRWeb) December 16, 2006 -- CAI and the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute are hosting a one-day seminar in Tampa, FL, on April 17, 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 Beth Layman, Senior Consultant with Borland Software; Dr. Herb Krasner, Founder of the Software Quality Institute; Tony Salvaggio, President of CAI and Founder of the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute; Joe McMakin, former CIO of Air Products and Chemicals and winner of Gartner's CIO Choice Award for Excellence in IT; and Bob Lawhorn, CTO of CAI. The venue for the conference will be the Belleview Biltmore Resort at 25 Belleview Blvd. in Clearwater, FL, on April 17, 2007. The event is a full day catered affair with breakfast and lunch included.

To read more about the speakers, please visit the 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 the event registration page at http://www.itmpi.org/events. For telephone registration, please call 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, at http://www.itmpi.org.

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 the company on the web at http://www.compaid.com.

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