The groom, 36, is a manager of software development at Motorola in Santa Clara, Calif.
Debbie Carignan, a manager of software development from the Riverside County town of Beaumont, had flown in with her daughter, Brittany Eyles, a veterinary student.
"Everyone sees the value of ELNs, from scientists to principal investigators to lab managers," says Erik Alsmyr, senior director of software development for the Accelrys Notebook (previously Contur's iLabber) for small-to-medium-sized research groups.
Mr. Trotman, 35, is a director of software development in Valhalla, N.Y., for the Oracle Corporation, the computer software company.
His mother retired as a project manager in charge of software development in the Troy, Mich., office of Electronic Data Systems.
It was developed with a group of software development project managers, using decision conferencing and multi-attribute value analysis.
In an earlier interview, Scott Bayman, GEs country manager in India, conceded that quality of software development in India, is …slightly ahead of what we get done in the U.S., in our experience.
Over the last year, it has lost a number of top managers, including Michael Barrett, the head of advertising sales; James Riesenbach, who ran search; and David Gang, who was in charged of software development.
The changing environments of software development such as component-based, distributed and outsourced software development require matching changes by project managers to monitor, control and coordinate their projects.
This study examines prediction of software development completion times which has traditionally involved either software engineering techniques or purely judgmental forecasts by lead analysts or project managers.
"The Chinese customers are more receptive to the whole way of doing business online," said Enwei Xie, Microsoft's general manager for software development business in China.
