Vision, Mission, Strategy, and Core Values
Vision
Leading the world to a software-enriched society
Mission
The SEI advances software engineering and related disciplines to ensure the development and operation of systems with predictable and improved cost, schedule, and quality.
Strategy
To achieve its mission, the SEI strategy is to openly engage a broad-based community with a focus on improving the effects of software in the world. We create usable technologies, apply them to real problems, and amplify their impact by accelerating broad adoption.
Create
The SEI works with the research community to help create and identify new
and improved practices. The SEI creates and identifies emerging or underused
solutions to significant and pervasive software engineering problems and
develops these solutions so that they can be applied by software developers
and acquirers to improve their software engineering practices. The SEI enters
into cooperative research and development agreements with industry and
academia to test new and emerging technologies.
Apply
The SEI works with leading-edge software developers and acquirers to apply
and validate the new and improved practices. Staff members help the DoD solve
specific software engineering and acquisition problems by applying these
practices. SEI direct support is funded through task orders for government
work.
Amplify
The SEI works through the global community of software engineers to amplify
the impact of the new and improved practices by encouraging and supporting
their widespread adoption. The SEI works closely with DoD engineering
organizations. In addition, the SEI offers continuing education courses based
on matured, validated, and documented solutions, and licenses the packaging
and delivery of new and improved technologies.
Core Values
The SEI’s core values are integrity, excellence, and impact.
These core values are the foundation of everything we do at the SEI. They hold us together when the forces of change push and pull us this way and that.
Integrity
Integrity means we are open, honest, and fair. We respect others and keep our commitments. Our
communication and actions reflect these values. We have no hidden agendas. We base our
decisions on facts as far as we can know them. We hold ourselves accountable for adhering to
these principles, and we expect and encourage others to hold us accountable, too.
Excellence
Excellence implies that we strive for excellence in everything that we do. We continually seek
ways to improve. We understand that our business and technical environments are dynamic.
Hence striving to be excellent includes a willingness to change. We constantly assess ourselves
and learn what we need to master a situation, not just react to it. We learn from our mistakes and
our successes and use that knowledge to help us improve.
Impact
Our impact is dependent on the measurable success the community has with the products of our
work. We celebrate their success and are committed to using our skills to further that success.