Linda Levine

Linda Levine
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Acquisition Support Program

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Key responsibilities

Responsible for developing and implementing strategies for knowledge transfer for capture and application of lessons to benefit the Acquisition Support Program, the SEI, partner organizations and the acquisition community.

Leads and participates in customer engagements, problem solving research (on patterns of failure and system archetypes), instrumentation and measurement efforts, and knowledge transfer activities such as: pilots, reflective practice, case studies, workshops, and the preparation of lessons learned, presentations, guides, reports, and articles.

Applied research on the diffusion and transfer of software engineering technologies and change management

Lead, Development and application of improvement frameworks; IDEAL Based New Technology Rollout, INTRo

Research on agile methods and Quality Software Development @Internet Speed

Professional Background

Linda Levine is a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. She leads the effort on the IDEAL-Based New Technology Rollout Process (INTRo): a structured approach to technology selection and deployment, developed in collaboration with Computer Associates. In 2001-2003 Levine led an SEI exploratory study on the use of agile methods in the field, on Quality Software Development @Internet Speed.

She publishes widely, and has over sixty publications, on the diffusion and transfer of software technologies and change management, knowledge networks, technologies and collaborative processes to support learning organizations, technology suppression, reasoning and communication, and design disciplines. Levine edited/co-edited three books: Diffusion, Transfer, & Implementation of Information Technology (1994), Elsevier; Information Systems: Current Effects and Future Changes (1997), IFIP, Laxenburg, Austria; and The Transfer and Diffusion of Information Technology for Organizational Resilience (2006), Springer Science, in association with her roles as organizing chair, program chair, and general chair for three IFIP international working conferences.

Levine holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. She is co-founder and Chair of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.6 on Transfer and Diffusion of Information Technology. She is a member of IEEE, Association for Information Systems, National Communication Association, and IFIP WG 8.2.

Publications (recent or significant)

Slaughter, S., Levine, L., Baskerville, R., Pries-Heje, J., Ramesh, B. (2006) Aligning software processes with strategy. Management Information Systems Quarterly 30 (4), 891-918.
Larsen, T.J. & Levine, L. (2005). Searching for Management Information Systems: Coherence and change in the discipline. Information Systems Journal 15 (4), 357-381.
Levine, L. & Saunders, K. (2004). Better, faster, cheaper--later: What happens when technologies are suppressed. Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 11 (1), Fall 2004, 23-70.
Levine, L., Baskerville, R., Loveland Link, J.L., Pries-Heje, J., Ramesh, B., & Slaughter, S., (2002). Discovery Colloquium: Quality Software Development @ Internet Speed.
Baskerville, R., Levine, L., Pries-Heje, J., Ramesh, B., & Slaughter, S. (2001) How Internet software companies negotiate quality. Computer 34(5), May 2001, 51-57.