SEI Webinar Series Hosted by SPIN
Our mission here at the SEI is not only to develop cutting-edge software engineering practices, but to distribute them to the organizations and individuals that need them.
In July, we launched a webinar initiative that allows us to bring you our research, best practices, and technology by the experts who developed them.
These webinars are free, easy to use, and keep you informed of the latest technologies and research being developed here at the SEI. To date, presentations have included SEI senior researchers discussing the latest in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Process Improvement in Multi-Model Environments (PrIME), and CERT’s Resiliency Engineering Framework (REF).
Don’t worry if you missed one of the webinars. You can just click on a past webinar, download the presentation, and watch the video, as many times as you want, without ever leaving your office. The only difference is, if you watch it live, you can participate in a question and answer session.
Think you might want to give SEI’s webinar series a try? Click on a month below to see what we have scheduled.
If you have any questions, please contact Shane McGraw at spin@sei.cmu.edu or 412-268-2358. If you would like to join our mailing list and receive invitations to each presentation, please click here.
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2009 Webinars |
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Exploring Enterprise, System of Systems, and System and Software Architectures by Paul Clements |
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As systems grow in complexity in today’s software-intensive world, architecture's role becomes crucial at enterprise, system, and software levels. The theme of the SATURN 2009 conference is “architecture at all scales” exploring the boundary between software, systems, and enterprise architectures. The theme highlights the growing importance of architecture in driving organizations to success by acknowledging the best architecture-centric practices that architecture practitioners use to build predictable, high-quality systems. |
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Monday, February 9, 2009 |
Recursion and Iteration of CMMI Project Management Practices by Fred Schenker |
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Recursion occurs when a process is applied to successive levels within a structure. When we talk about engineering practices in CMMI, we expect recursion (e.g., requirements must be managed for the product, product component, subcomponents, etc). Although not directly stated in the model, the same expectation should be made of project management practices. In spite of the reputation of CMMI-DEV as a product development model, there is a distinct project focus to CMMI-DEV. There are process areas that use the word “project” explicitly in their title (project planning, project monitoring and control, integrated project management). So, would you expect everyone’s definition of a project to be the same? Let’s say you were a large defense contractor, building an integrated aircraft. How would you define the scope of this project? In a project of this magnitude, we find that there are actually a lot of smaller projects being executed, with an integrating project at the highest level. So, how do we define project management practice instantiations at the highest level, and how do we apply it at lower levels? Should we expect to find full instantiations of project planning, project monitoring and control, integrated project management at an integrated project team level or in a functional organization? When we appraise this organization, should we expect to gain affirmations from integrated project team leads or software leads regarding PM PAs? Similarly, project management practices are expected to be iterative. For example, project planning is performed throughout the life of the project, not just at the beginning. This presentation will examine the project management practices from the perspective of both recursion and iteration. We will identify those practices where recursion and iteration are expected, and discuss implementation tactics and options. Finally, implications for appraising these practices and for preparing appraisal evidence will be noted. |
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CMMI Version 1.3 Product Suite by Mike Konrad and Rusty Young |
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In this webinar session, Mike Konrad, manager of the CMMI Model Team and CMMI Chief Architect, and Rusty Young, manager of the SCAMPI Appraisal Team, will discuss CMMI Version 1.3. Version 1.3 will include updates to the entire CMMI Product Suite and will focus on, but not be limited to:
This webinar will be the final in-depth communication on Version 1.3 before the change request period is closed. Change requests that are submitted before March 2, 2009 for CMMI-DEV, CMMI-ACQ, and CMMI-SVC constellations will be reviewed as part of this project. As plans are finalized, more information about CMMI Version 1.3 will become available on the SEI website. The date of the Version 1.3 release is not yet definite, but is likely in 2010. |
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Monday, February 23, 2009 |
CMMI v1.2 and Beyond by Mike Phillips and Mike Konrad |
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The presenters will describe the continued updates of CMMI to better address key elements such as acquisition and services. After a short look at current status, an overview of each of these two new"constellations" will be provided, along with information about other related new themes to better use CMMI (and TSP and the P-CMM) to improve performance. Emphasis will be on the acquisition improvements, but it will also cover progress on defining the key elements of focus for CMMI V1.3 with a final encouragement for any remaining Change Requests for team deliberation. |
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Thursday, March 5, 2009 |
The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures (MFESA) by Don Firesmith |
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To be successful, every system needs a good architecture and that requires the use of a good architecture engineering method. However, systems vary greatly in size, complexity, criticality, domain, operational dependence on other systems, the technology used and its diversity, requirements volatility, required quality characteristics and attributes, and volatility of technology and component parts. Development organizations vary greatly in degrees of centralization, management culture, engineering culture, and staff expertise and experience. Endeavors (projects and programs of related projects) vary greatly in their contracts, types, lifecycle scopes, schedules, and funding. Stakeholders vary greatly in type, numbers, authority, and accessibility. These are reasons why one size does not fit all, and no single system architecture engineering method or standard is sufficiently general and tailorable to meet the needs of all endeavors. |
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Monday, March 30, 2009 |
SEI Webinar Special Event: The Age of the Smart Grid is Here |
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The electric power grid is the largest and most complex machine in the world and it is now critically overburdened. Climate change, available technology and the current economic crisis represent the final tipping point for a much needed overhaul. |
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Thursday, April 9, 2009 |
SMART: Analyzing the Feasibility of Migrating Legacy Systems to SOA Environments |
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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become an increasingly popular mechanism for achieving interoperability between systems. Because it has characteristics of loose coupling, published interfaces, and a standard communication model, SOA enables existing legacy systems to expose their functionality as services, presumably without making significant changes to the legacy systems. Migration of legacy systems to service-oriented environments has been achieved within a number of domains, showing that the promise is beginning to be fulfilled. |
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 |
A Practical Approach for Building CMMI Process Performance Models |
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This webinar targets individuals who will be developing and using process performance models as part of an overall CMMI High Maturity improvement framework. As the community becomes more aware of the detailed definition and characterization of CMMI process performance models, there is a need to provide additional guidance on the process or “model” of how one properly builds a process performance model. The authors combined their varied and in-depth modeling experiences to deliver a tutorial on this subject for the 2009 SEPG NA from which this webinar is drawn. Process performance modeling is also referred to in a handful of courses within the SEI training portfolio. Specifically, it receives some treatment in the CMMI Introduction and Intermediate courses and much more in-depth conceptual treatment in the Understanding CMMI High Maturity Practices (UCHMP) course. Lastly, basic process performance modeling techniques are taught in the Improving Process Performance using Six Sigma (IPPSS) course while advanced process performance modeling techniques are taught in the Designing Products and Processes using Six Sigma (DPPSS) course. |
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 |
SQUARE Up Your Security Requirements Engineering with SQUARE by Dr. Nancy Mead |
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It is well recognized in industry that requirements engineering is critical to the success of any major development project. Security requirements, if they are specified at all, tend to be developed independently of the rest of the requirements engineering activity. As a result, security requirements that are specific to the system and that provide for protection of essential services and assets are often neglected. |
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 |
CMMI Level 2 for Practitioners: A Focused Course for Your Level 2 Efforts |
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The SEI’s newest course, CMMI Level 2 for Practitioners takes an in-depth look at CMMI maturity level 2, specifically the processes that must be put in place in order for organizations to achieve the maturity level rating. Whether you’re an engineer, a member of a quality assurance team, or a SCAMPI Appraisal team member, the course can give you a better understanding of maturity level 2 practices as well as the rationale behind them. If you are a team leader charged with training efforts for your group, all of your project members can gain the tools to lead your organization to the next level. |
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
A Practical Approach for Managing Risk |
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Although most programs and organizations implement some type of risk management approach, preventable failures continue to occur. Many of these approaches tend to be bureaucratic and time-intensive, which can consume valuable program resources. Most programs would benefit by improving, or in some cases replacing, their current risk management practices. The SEI Mission Success in Complex Environments (MSCE) project team develops practical and innovative methods and tools for measuring, assessing, and managing program risks. The team is currently developing Mosaic—a suite of methods that can be used to manage risk across the life cycle and supply chain. In contrast to traditional risk management approaches, Mosaic methods:
Mosaic enables decision makers to more effectively engage in the risk management process, navigate through a broad tradeoff space (including performance, reliability, safety, and security considerations), and strategically allocate their limited resources when and where they are needed the most. This presentation will present an overview of the Mosaic approach for managing risk and highlight twenty questions that all program managers should be able to answer about their programs’ risks. |
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2008 Webinars |
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Friday, |
Process Improvement in
Multi-Model Environments (PrIME) |
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Organizations are using an ever-increasing set of international standards and models to manage their businesses, increase customer satisfaction, attain competitive advantage, and achieve process performance and regulatory compliance. In this presentation, currently available strategic and tactical methods for multi-model improvement will be presented. |
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Thursday, |
Workforce Issues of the 21st Century, The People CMM to the Rescue |
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This presentation will open with a discussion of workforce issues that organizations are currently experiencing, potential side effects, and how these issues can affect performance and retention. Following will be an introduction to the People CMM and how it can assist organizations in implementing practices that build greater workforce capability and equip organizations to address potential current and future workforce issues. |
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Thursday, |
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) |
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It is clear that Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is having a substantial impact on the way that software systems are developed. According to a 2007 Gartner Group report, 50% of new mission-critical operational applications and business processes were designed in 2007 around SOA, and that number will be more than 80% by 2010. This presentation will provide an overview of SOA (a development paradigm) and explain the implications that SOA adoption has on the processes used to develop service-oriented systems. |
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Thursday, |
A Jumpstart Method for Business Goals and Project Objectives Supporting CMMI High Maturity |
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Many organizations pursuing CMMI High Maturity face difficulty in developing appropriate business goals and quality and performance objectives that support CMMI High Maturity practices including QPM and OPP. This webinar discusses the mechanics of one approach to jumpstart a business goal and objective activity such that the resulting statements readily support the planning of statistical management and process performance modeling. Participants will readily see that merely copying and pasting business goals to serve as project level objectives is not sufficient for QPM and OPP needs. |
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Thursday, |
Overview of the Master of Science in Information Technology, Software Engineering Management (MSIT-SEM) |
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By coupling the professional courses of the SEI with elements of the graduate programs from the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science and Heinz School, the MSIT-SEM prepares working professionals to apply SEI technologies and practices in managing organizations that continuously improve with advances in software. With areas of focus in technology, business, and management, the MSIT-SEM degree exposes students to the foundational and advanced concepts that will enable them to make good business decisions. Ideal for working IT managers, the MSIT-SEM degree program has a curriculum delivered mostly through distance learning, allowing staff members to earn a degree while continuing to work. |
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Thursday, |
CERT Resiliency Engineering Framework (REF) |
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Organizations can improve operational resiliency by viewing it as an engineering-based process that can be defined, managed, measured, and improved. This session will demonstrate the CERT Resiliency Engineering Framework (REF) as a foundational model that provides a structure from which an organization can systematically identify its current capabilities and level of security effectiveness, assess resiliency targets and goals, and build a road map for continuous improvement. |
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Thursday, |
CMMI on the Web |
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With an abundance of information available on CMMI, this webinar will clarify what is available online for organizations starting and maintaining a CMMI-based process improvement initiative. While each implementation will be unique, there are definite commonalities for every CMMI implementation. This webinar will also show that efficiently accessing the available information has enormous tangible benefits for anyone interested in CMMI-based process improvement. The webinar will focus on three learner outcomes: 1) basic understanding of the CMMI Product Suite; 2) starting and sustaining a process improvement initiative based on CMMI; 3) learning what web sites, forums, tools, and user groups are available for organizations using CMMI. |
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Thursday, |
The Measurement and Analysis Infrastructure Diagnostic (MAID), Creating a Foundation for Effective Measurement and Analysis |
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Organizations run on data. But how reliable is the data that organizations collect, analyze, and report? How useful are the reports to managers and decision makers? This webinar describes the current status of an effort to develop the Measurement and Analysis Infrastructure Diagnostic (MAID). MAID is a criteria-based approach for evaluating an organization’s measurement and analysis infrastructure. The method draws upon standards, best practices, and techniques from software engineering and process improvement |
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Thursday, |
CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC) |
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The CMMI-SVC extends the coverage of the CMMI from development and acquisition into service delivery. Currently, some service organizations apply CMMI V1.1 or CMMI-DEV V1.2 to service delivery, but this requires significant interpretation by both the organizations and their appraisers. CMMI-SVC will improve consistency and payoff and provide fuller coverage for process areas necessary to services that are not covered by the current CMMI models. The SEI lead for CMMI-SVC will give status on model development, describe experience and pilot results and brief the new content. |
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Thursday, |
SEPG Conference Series Overview |
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In this webinar, Caroline Graettinger, Chair of the SEPG Conference Series, will answer common questions about this global conference series on software and systems process management hosted by the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute. Now in its 21st year, the SEPG Conference Series has annual events in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. Considered by attendees to be an exceptional resource to learn, network, and improve in process management and performance improvement in the areas of not only software and systems engineering but also acquisition, maintenance, security, and services, the SEPG conferences attract attendees from around the world. Caroline will answer questions she often receives about how the program is developed, how presenters can increase their chances of having their abstracts accepted, the various opportunities to participate in SEPG, new networking opportunities planned for 2009, and other common questions. |
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Thursday, |
Using the Team Software Process (TSP)
to Improve Performance |
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Most process improvement initiatives fail. What makes TSP different? In this presentation, Tim explains what TSP
is and how it can relate to CMMI. He will show quantitative results he and others have seen through the use of TSP.
Tim will also discuss the people side of change, which can be one of the most difficult aspects of change, and how,
based on his personal experience as a project manager and process improvement lead, TSP can help overcome |
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Thursday, |
CMMI-Agile |
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Agile development methods and CMMI best practices are often perceived to be at odds with each other. If these perceptions or their causes are not resolved, we are likely to see more confusion and conflict as the adoption of each increases. In the long term, this situation is not healthy for the software engineering profession. Why the discord between Agile and CMMI camps? The purpose of this talk is to clarify why the discord need not exist and to inform the software community about how agile methods and CMMI can dramatically improve business performance when properly used together. |
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Thursday, |
Identifying Program Risks |
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It doesn’t matter what guide or model you are using for your program’s risk management process—CMMI RSKM, the Risk Management Guide for DoD Acquisitions, PMI PMBoK, or some other—if you don’t identify the right risks, everything else you do in risk management is just a waste of time and effort. In this webinar, we’ll look at group processes at the work group level (development team, IPT, small project) for identifying and documenting risks. We’ll discuss the principles behind the Condition-Consequence risk statement construct, showing you how to help a work group write good risk statements quickly and confidently. Finally, we’ll discuss the ways in which many organizations unintentionally undermine good risk identification, turning the risk management process into a “lip-service exercise.” |
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Thursday, |
Process Improvement at the Edges |
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Process improvement is a well-established business competitiveness strategy for medium and large enterprises in a number of industries critical to the global economy. But process improvement is challenging “at the edge,” especially for very small organizations and in multi-organization collaborations common in systems-of-systems settings. At both of these edges, there are challenges. Some of these are different, but some are surprisingly similar. SuZ Garcia has successfully worked on process improvement “in the small” and is now translating strategies from small and traditional settings into systems of systems. She will share insights on approaching CMMI and other model-based improvements drawn particularly from small settings, with a focus on how solutions from the very small can also support improvement in the very large, multi-organizational setting. |
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