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SEI Year in Review 2008

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The SEI Year in Review 2008 describes the accomplishments of the SEI during FY08
(October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008).

SEI-Sponsored Conferences

6th Annual SEPG Australia Conference 2008
August 18 - 21, 2008 (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

Paul Nielsen
keynote: Development, Process, and Beyond: A Holistic Approach to Software Engineering

John Gross
Process Boot Camp

Mike Konrad
CMMI and the Future of Systems and Software Engineering

Lisa Masciantonio
SEI Partners Meeting

 

7th Annual CMMI Technology Conference & User Group
November 12-15, 2007 (Denver, CO
)

Paul Nielsen
Opening Remarks

Clyde Chittister (with Bob Rassa)
keynote: CMMI Current State and Future Plans

Anita Carleton
High Performance versus High Maturity

Mary Beth Chrissis & Barbara Tyson
CMMI Training Status and Plans

Jack Ferguson
SEI Appraisal Program Status and Future Plans

Robert Ferguson
Integrating CMMI, Lean and Six Sigma
Leading Indicators for Acquisition Programs
SE Complexity and Project Management

Dennis Goldenson
Understanding CMMI Measurement Capabilities Performance & Outcomes: Results from the 2007 SEI State of Measurement Practices Survey

Caroline Graettinger & Chris Carmody
Improving Processes in Small Settings

Charlene Gross
All Others Bring Data

Will Hayes
SEI Appraisal Program Quality Report
CMMI High Maturity Misconceptions

Steve Masters & Judah Mogilensky
SCAMPI Lead Appraiser Body of Knowledge (SLA BOK) Overview

James McHale
Thought Before Action: A High Maturity Roadmap for the Lower Maturity Organization

Ken Nidiffer
How Future Trends in Systems and Software Engineering Bode Well for Enabling the Rapid Adoption of CMMI

Joanne O'Leary
SEI Appraisal System (SAS) Update

William Peterson
Software Engineering Process Management Update

David Phillips
CMMI V1.2 -- An Overview

Mike Phillips
CMMI-ACQ Constellation Overview

Fred Schenker
Project Management by Functional Capability

Robert Stoddard
CMMI Process Performance Baselines and Models:  Experience and Results

Jeff Welch
Certification Status and Plans

Gian Wemyss
People CMM Update

Joseph Wickless
“Embedded SCAMPI-C” Appraisal at the National Security Agency

Rusty Young, Bob Stoddard, & Mike Konrad
If You're Living the High Life You're Living the Informative Material

Dave Zubrow
Software Engineering Measurement & Analysis Update

 

7th IEEE International Conference on Composition-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS)
February 25-29, 2008 (Madrid, Spain)

Lisa Brownsword, Patrick Kirwan, Philip Boxer and Suzanne Garcia
Modeling Key Dynamics in Complex Systems (of Systems) Environments: Foundational Concepts

Donald Firesmith
The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures
Third International OTS-Based Development Methods Workshop (IOTSDM'08)

Grace Lewis, Ed Morris, Pat Place, Soumya Simanta, Dennis Smith, & Lutz Wrage
Engineering Systems of Systems

Grace A. Lewis, Edwin Morris, Soumya Simanta, & Lutz Wrage
Why Standards Are Not Enough To Guarantee End-to-End Interoperability

Tricia Oberndorf (with Anatol Kark)
Research Agenda for System of Systems Interoperability

Dennis Smith
Panel 1: Is SOA Real?

 

11th International Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE)
October 14-17, 2008 (Karlsruhe, Germany)

Len Bass, Phil Bianco, & Felix Bachmann (with Andres Diaz-Pace, Hyunwoo Kim
Integrating Quality-Attribute Reasoning Frameworks in the ArchE Design Assistant

Gabriel A. Moreno & Paulo Merson
Model-Driven Performance Analysis

 

12th International Software Product Line Conference 2008
September 8-12, 2008 (Limerick, Ireland
)

Patrick Donohoe
Introduction to Software Product Lines

John D. McGregor
Panel 2: Agile and PLE

Linda Northrop & Larry Jones
Introduction to Software Product Line Adoption

 

21st IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)
April 14-17, 2008 (Charleston, SC)

Watts Humphrey
Teaching Industrial Strength Software Engineering

Nancy R. Mead
keynote: Software Engineering Education: How Far We’ve Come and How Far We Have To Go

 

 

Fourth Annual SEPG Latin America Conference
November 26-28, 2007 (Chile, Santiago)

Watts S. Humphrey
Large-Scale Knowledge Work

Grace Lewis
Migración a Ambientes de Arquitectura Orientada a Servicios (SOA)

James McHale
Fundamentals of TSP for Agile CMMI-Based Improvement

 

Fourth SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop
28 April-1 May (Pittsburgh, PA
)

Felix Bachmann
SATURN Session Summary Use of the SEI ATAM in Practice

Phil Bianco & Andres Diaz-Pace
Current SEI SAT Initiative Technology Investigations

Rick Kazman
Current SAT Work in Architecture Evolution

Mark Klein
Software Architecture Technology Initiative

Linda Northrop
Architecture from a Manager’s Perspective SATURN 2008

 

SEPG Europe 2008 Designing the Future
June 10-13, 2008 (Munich, Germany)

Watts Humphrey
keynote: The Victim Trap

Deen Blash
CMMI on the Web

Anita Carleton
Getting High Performance from High Maturity

Noopur Davis
Using SCRUM within the TSP Measurement Framework

Eileen Forrester
CMMI for Services Panel

SuZ Garcia
Going Beyond IPPD -- Distributed Collaborations in a SoS Context

Dennis R. Goldenson
The State of Software Measurement Practice: Results from the SEI Annual Survey Series

Watts Humphrey & James Over
TSP Executive Strategy Seminar

James Over
TSP is CMMI!

Mike Phillips
CMMI for Acquisition Supplement for Introduction to CMMI V1.2

Getting Started with CMMI-ACQ: Becoming a More Effective Customer

Jeannine Siviy
Multi-Model Improvement in Practice: An Interactive Workshop
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Robert Stoddard
An Executive Tutorial of CMMI Process Performance Models

A Practitioner View of CMMI Process Performance Models

Gian Wemyss
Process Bootcamp

Rawdon Young
Top Ten Things Everybody Should Know About High Maturity

 

SEPG North America 2008: Leading the Wave in Software & Systems Process Management
March 17-20, 2008 (Tampa, FL )

Lorraine Adams
SCAMPI Lessons Learned from Experience in the Field

Palma Buttles-Valdez, Agapi Svolou, & Fred Valdez
A Holistic Approach to Process Improvement Using the People CMM and the CMMI-DEV: Technology, Process, People, & Culture, the Holistic Quadripartite

Sally Cunningham, David Phillips, & Jeannine Siviy
SEI Breakfast Series - Technology Transition Services Directorate

Noopur Davis
Developing Secure Software with TSP-Secure

Audrey Dorofee, Christopher Alberts, & Lisa Michele Marino
Using the Mission Diagnostic Assessment: Lessons Learned

Eileen Forrester
CMMI for Services Panel

Brian Gallagher
SEI Breakfast Series - Acquisition Support Program

SuZ Garcia & Mary Lynn Penn
Field Guide for Improving Processes in Small Settings

Dennis Goldenson, Peter Capell, Ira Monarch, & James Wessel
Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems
Tailoring and Combining the CMMI-ACQ and Quality Models to Improve the Military's Requirements Process

John Goodenough
Evaluating System Security Using Assurance Cases

Jon Gross & Matt Fisher
Outsourcing, Supply Chain, Acquisition

Watts Humphrey, Joe Jarzombek, Mary Lynn Penn, Gary Anthes, & Madhav Panwar
keynote panel - 20 Years of SEPG: Past Successes, Future Opportunities

Watts Humphrey & Patrick O'Toole
TSP Adoption Issues - Reality or Myth Perception?

Michael Konrad & Robert Stoddard
Living the CMMI "High Life"

John Maher & Eugene Miluk
Improvements in Four Dimensions

Shane McGraw & Deen Blash
CMMI on the Web

Sally Miller
Avoiding the Workforce Competency Traps by Using the People CMM

Judah Mogilensky & Charles Ryan
SCAMPI Lead Appraiser Body of Knowledge (SLA BOK) Overview

Linda Northrop
SEI Breakfast Series - Product Line Systems Program

Patricia Oberndorf
Systems of Systems and Interoperability Challenges for Systems Engineering

David Phillips
CMMI for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ), Version 1.2

John Ryskowski & Robert Stoddard
V1.2 High Maturity: What Should I Expect to See in a V1.2 High Maturity Appraisal

Alfred Schenker & Robert Jacobs
Project Management by Functional Capability

Jeannine Siviy, Gerhard Getto, Patrick Kirwan, & Renato Vasques
MultiModel improvement in Practice: Past, Present, and Future

Robert Stoddard & Rawdon Young
A Practitioner View of CMMI Process Performance Models

David White
The CERT Resiliency Engineering Framework: A Process Improvement Approach for Enterprise Security and Business Continuity

 

Team Software Process (TSP) Symposium 2008
September 22-25, 2008 (Phoenix, AZ )

Watts Humphrey
keynote: The Victim Trap

Watts Humphrey & Bill Nichols
Certifying Software Organizations

Phil Miller
Lessons Learned in SEI Blended Learning

Jim McHale & Gene Miluk
TSP and CMMI at the SEI

Gene Miluk
Accelerating CMMI Adoption with PSP/TSP

Gene Miluk, Jim McHale, & Tim Chick
Accelerating CMMI Adoption with PSP/TSP - TCAIM

Jim Over
Closing Remarks

Jim Over & Paul Nielsen
Symposium Welcome

Robert Stoddard
“Uses of Monte Carlo Simulation for TSP Teams”

 

Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) 2008
February 18-22, 2008 (Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Paul Bianco
Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture

Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, & Mark Klein
Evaluating The Software Architecture Competence of Organizations

Paul Clements, David Emery, Rich Hilliard, & Robert Nord
WRAD: Reviewing Architectural Descriptions

 

 

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