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SEI Annual Report FY07

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The 2007 SEI Annual Report describes the accomplishments of the SEI during FY07
(October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007).

SEI-Sponsored Conferences

3rd Annual Team Software Process Symposium 2007
September 17 – 20, 2007, Orlando, Florida

keynote presentations by SEI staff:

Konrad, M.
"MISC PMT: Combining TSP and CMMI Should Mean More Than Just an Anagram"

presentations by SEI staff:

Akiyama, Y., Over, J. McHale, J., & Carleton, A.
"Impact of Individual Performance to Project Organization"

Burton, D. & Humphrey, W.
"Mining PSP Data"

Carleton, A. & Chick, T.
"Extending the Team Software Process for Systems Engineering"

Webb, D. Van Buren, J. & Miluk, E.
"Making TSP Work at CMMI Level 5"

Northrop, L.
“Architecting High Quality Systems"

White, D.
"SEI Licensing"

Willett, A.
"Tools of the Change Warrior"

Willett, A & Fagan, E.
"The Teacher, the Bathtub and the Bureaucrat"

 

4th Annual CMMI Workshop for SCAMPI Lead Appraisers, SCAMPI B&C Team Leaders, and CMMI Instructors
October 16 – 19, 2006, Charlotte, North Carolina

presentations by SEI staff:

Barbour, R.
"DoD Perspective of CMMI",  4th Annual CMMI Workshop for SCAMPI Lead Appraisers, SCAMPI B&C Team Leaders and CMMI Instructors"

Humphrey, W. & Konrad, M.
"A Superior Process"

Masciantonio, L.
SEI Partner Network Update

Nielsen, P.
Welcome Address

 

6th Annual Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Technology Conference and User Group
November 13 – 16, 2006, Denver, Colorado

presentations given by SEI staff:

Adams, L.
"SCAMPI B’s for Contract Monitoring—A Case Study of the Mission Planning Enterprise Contractors"

Ferguson, J.
"Lead Appraiser Training for V1.2"

"SCAMPI 1.2 Updates"

Glover, M.
"ISO and CMMI: How to Perform SCAMPI Appraisals and ISO Audits in a Syncronized, Simultaneous, Stupendous One Fell Swoop"

Goldenson, D.
"CMMI-Based Process Improvement: How and When Does Success Happen?"

Hayes, W.
"Strengthening the Credibility of Level 4/5 Appraisals"

Kasunic, M.
"Performance Benchmarking Consortium"

"2006 State of Software Measurement Practice Survey"

Kitson, D.
"Experience Report – An ISO/IEC 15504-Conformant SCAMPI Appraisal"

Miluk, G.
"Business Value of CMMI Level 5"

Phillips, M.
"CMMI V1.2 Overview"

"Implications of Combining SAM and ISM in CMMI V1.2"

Rassa, B. & Chittister, C.
"CMMI Current State and Future Plans"

 

6th IEEE International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS) 2007
February 26 – March 2, 2007, Alberta, Canada

presentations by SEI staff:

Anderson, W.
"What COTS and Software Reuse Teach Us About SOA"

Lewis, G., Morris, E., Simanta, S., & Wrage, L.
"Common Misconceptions about Service-Oriented Architecture"

tutorials organized by SEI staff:

Brownsword, L. & Smith, J.
"Promises, Expectations, and Realities of Interoperability: from COTS to System of Systems"

workshops organized by SEI staff:

Firesmith, D.
"Engineering Safety- and Security-Related Requirements for Software-Intensive Systems"

"Second International OTS-Based Development Methods Workshop (IOTSDM'07)"

Oberndorf, P. & Kark, A.
"Research Agenda for System of Systems Interoperability
"

Smith, D., Lewis, G., Place, P., & Kirwan, P.
"Developing Realistic Approaches for Migration of Legacy Assets to SOA Environments"

Woody, C. & Ellison, R.
"Assessing the Quality of a Business Process Implemented Across Systems-of-Systems"

 

10th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) 2007
July 9 – 11, 2007, Boston, Massachusetts

keynotes given by SEI staff:

Wallnau, K.
“Component-Based Software Engineering: Polemic and Apology of an Agnostic"

 

11th International Conference of Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) 2007
September 10 – 14, 2007, Kyoto, Japan

presentations by SEI staff:

Chastek, G., Donohoe, P., & McGregor, J.
"A Production System for Software Product Lines"

McGregor, J.
Welcome Message

tutorials given by SEI staff:

Chastek, G. & McGregor, J.
"Production Planning in a Software Product Line Organization"

Clements , P., McGregor, J., & Muthig, D.
"Predicting Product Line Payoff with SIMPLE"

McGregor, J.
"Building Reusable Testing Assets for a Software Product Line"

Northrop, L.
"Introduction to Software Product Lines"

Northrop, L. & Jones, L.
"Introduction to Software Product Adoption"

 

20th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T 2007)
July 3 – 5, 2007, Dublin, Ireland

presentations by SEI staff:

Port, D. & Kazman, R.
"Laptop Enabled Active Learning in the Software Engineering Classroom: An Experience Report"

McGregor, J. Bachman, F., Bass, L., Bianco, P., & Klein, M.
"Using an Architecture Reasoning Tool to Teach Software Architecture
"

Golden, E. & Bass, L.
"Creating Meaningful Assessments for Professional Development Education in Software
Architecture"

 

European Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) Conference 2007: CMMI and the Performance Improvement World
June 11 – 14, 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

keynotes given by SEI staff:

Nielsen, P.
"CMMI and the Performance Improvement World:  A Personal View"

Humphrey, W.
"Large-Scale Knowledge Work"

presentations by SEI staff:

Forrester, E.
"A New Process Research Framework"

Glover, M. & Hayes, W.
"How to Perform an ISO 9000 Audit and a CMMI SCAMPI Appraisal in One Fell Swoop"

Goethert, W. & Goldenson, D.
"Implementing CMMI Measurement & Analysis Using Goal-Driven Measurement "

Linders, B. & Stoddard, R.
"Quicker and Better Quality Improvement Business Cases with Bayesian Belief Networks and Six Sigma"

Niessink, F. & Forrester, E.
"How Will CMMI for Services Align with ITIL?"

Phillips, M.
"An Acquisition Guidebook"

"CMMI v1.2—What has Changed?"

Siviy, J. & Kirwan, P.
"Process Improvement in Multi-Model Environments: An Investigation"

Stoddard, R.
"What's New in Measurement and Analysis"

Stoddard, R., Linders, B., Sapp, E., & Sapp, M.
"Exactly What Are Process Performance Models in the CMMI?"

Svolou, A., Miller, T., Miluk, G., & Ward, M.
"A New Approach: Appraising, Training, Learning and
Recommending"

Wemyss, G.
"The People-CMM"

 

Third Annual SEPG Conference Latin America: Driving Improvement: Common Problems, Innovative Solutions
November 6 – 8, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil

keynotes given by SEI staff:

Humphrey, W.
"Scaling Up the Process"

tutorials given by SEI staff:

Lewis, G. Brownsword, L. & Garcia, S
"Will My System Play Nicely With Others: Interpreting CMMI in a System of Systems Context."

 

Fifth Annual Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) Australia 2007
August, 28 – 31 2007, Gold Coast, Australia

keynotes given by SEI staff:

Humphrey, W.
“Large-Scale Knowledge Work."

presentations by SEI staff:

Goldenson, D.
"Modelling the Performance Results of CMMI-Based Process Improvement: Why is there Variation in Program Success?"

Neilsen, P.
"CMMI and the Performance Improvement World:  A Personal View"

Wemyss, G.
"CMMI and People CMM Synergy: Maintaining Long-Term CMMI-Based Improvement Through Enhanced Workforce Practices"

tutorials given by SEI staff:

Phillips, M.
"CMMI—Version 1.2 and Beyond"

 

Sixth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture WICSA 2007 Mumbai, India January 6 – 9, 2007, Mumbai, India

tutorials given by SEI staff:

Bass, L. & Nord, R.
"An Introduction to Effectively Evaluating Software Architectures"

 

Software Engineering Process Group 2007 (SEPG 2007)
March 27 – 29, 2007, Austin Texas

presentations by SEI staff:

Adams, L., Wrubel, E., & Bastien, K.
"SCAMPI-B for Contract Monitoring—A Case Study of the Mission Planning Enterprise Contractors"

Alberts, C. & Dorofee, A.
"Assuring Mission Success in Complex Settings"

Buttles-Valdez, P.
"The Future of The U.S. Workforce: Buckle your Seat's Its Gonna be a Bumpy Ride"

Oppenheimer, H., Buttles-Valdez, P., Maher, J., Mogilensky, J., & Rubinstein, V.
"How Change Feels: A Variety of Stakeholder Perspectives" (panel session)

Cappelli, D.
"Insider Threats in the SDLC"

Caralli, R.
"The Resiliency Engineering Framework
"

Carmody, C. & Maher, J.
"One Size Fits All: Integrating SOX, CMMI, and ITIL for Enterprise-Wide Process Improvement"

Davis, N.
"A Simple Measurement Framework"

Firesmith, D.
"Engineering Safety- and Security-Related Requirements for Software-Intensive Systems"

"QUASAR: Quality Assessments of System Architectures"

Forrester, E.
"CMMI-SVC"

Garcia, S. & Turner, R.
"CMMI Survival: Principles to Adhere to on Your CMMI Journey"

Glover, M., Robert Ferguson, R., & Sledge, C.
"Can You Hear Me Now? Lessons in Testing Systems of Systems"

Hayes, W.
"High Maturity Misconceptions"

Humphrey, W.
"A Superior Process: Requirements"

Kasunic, M.
"Avoiding the Road to Abilene: Sharing Total Systems Performance Responsibility"

"Designing an Effective Survey"

Kitson, D., Kitson, J., Rout, T., & Sousa, P.
"A 15504-Compliant CMMI-Based Appraisal Producing 12207 and 9001-Related Outcomes"

Konrad, M.
"High Maturity—How Do We Know?"

Maher, J.
"Process Therapy: What to Do Before the Infrastructure Shows Up"

McHale, J.
"A Simple Process Performance Model: The Advantage of High-Maturity Thinking for the Lower Maturity Organization"

Miluk, G., Penn, L., Craig, R., & Heffner, R.
"Business Value of CMMI Level 5"

Morrow, T.
"Applying CMMI, Software Architecture Principles, and Process Improvement in a DoD Acquisition"

Phillips, M.
"CMMI-ACQ Pilot Results"

"CMMI v1.2-What's New"

Reitzig, Goldenson, D., Gibson, D., & Cavanaugh, M.
"Calculating CMMI-Based ROI: Why, When, What, and How?"

Siviy, J., Stoddard, R., & Penn, M.
"Achieving Success via Multi-Model Process Improvement Program"

"Line of Sight: Aligning Your Improvement Project Portfolio with the Business"

Stoddard, R. & Sapp, M.
"Monte Carlo Simulation: A Practical Measurement and Analysis Tool for Software Process Improvement"

Wessel, J. & Ferguson, R.
"Software System Acquisition Lifecycle Management"

Webb, D., Van Buren, J., & Miluk, E.
"Making TSP Work at CMMI Level 5"

Wemyss, G. & Svolou, A.
"People-CMM and CMMI Synergy"

Wilkie, F. & Forrester, E.
"Developing a Process Research Framework"

Willett, A.
"Life on a High Maturity Team: Troubles on a Quest for Excellence"

Woody, C., Caralli, R., Grojean, C., Jarzombek, J., Mead, N., Moss, M., & Nadworny, M.
"Process Improvement Should Link to Security"

Zubrow, D.
"Can You Trust Your Data? A Measurement Infrastructure Diagnostic"

 

Third SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop
May 14 – 16, 2007, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

presentations by SEI staff:

Bass, L. & Clements, P. (facilitators)
"Architecture Competence Facilitators"

Capolongo, K. & Cohen, S.
"A Product Line Architecture for Army Aviation Diagnostics and Maintenance: Views and Evolution"

Clements, P.
"Improving Architecture Competence: A Status Report"

Cohen, S.
“A Product Line Architecture for Army Aviation Diagnostics and Maintenance: Views and Evolution"

Gagliardi, M. & Wood, B.
"Systems of Systems Architecture Evaluation with Concurrent Development"

Gagliardi, M. & Wood, B. (facilitators)
System and SoS Architecture Evaluation—Early Identification of Inconsistencies in Addressing Quality Attributes

Kazman, R. & Klein, M. (facilitators)
Economics-Driven Architecting

Klein, M.
"SEI Update"

Merson, P., Bianco, P., & Kotermanski, R.
"Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture"

Nord, R. & Bachmann, F. (facilitators)
"Architecture-Based System Evolution"

Northrop, L.
Closing Remarks

 

 

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