SEI Areas of Work: Management
The Carnegie Mellon® Software Engineering Institute (SEI) helps organizations and individuals improve their software engineering management practices. Explore the topics listed on the left for more information about software engineering management, SEI projects, and software engineering.
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Higher quality and productivity, faster delivery, lower costs, and better morale?
- Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®) helps organizations increase the maturity of their processes to improve long-term business performance. CMMI provides the latest best practices for product and service development, maintenance, and acquisition. The SEI also supports People CMM®, which helps organizations successfully address their critical workforce development and management issues. The SEI is looking for a limited number of organizations that are interested in adopting CMMI. Send email to Dave Scherb dscherb@sei.cmu.edu to learn more.
- The SEI Appraisal Program provides process appraisals managed and administered by the SEI. For a list of authorized lead assessors, appraisers, and evaluators, see the SEI Appraisal System (SAS).
- The SEI IDEAL model for organizational improvement serves as a roadmap for initiating, planning, and implementing improvement actions.
Predictable schedule, cost, and quality from your software developers?
- Software engineers trained in the SEI Personal Software Process (PSP) methodology make accurate and realistic estimates and then routinely produce on schedule, with reduced development time and significantly reduced numbers of defects in delivered code.
- The SEI Team Software Process (TSP) methodology builds on the foundations of the CMM and PSP to guide organizations in forming and managing high-performance integrated product teams. The TSP provides guidance on launching, planning, managing, and reporting a team's work.
Tools to help you make informed choices about software engineering practices?
- Software Engineering Measurement & Analysis (SEMA) provides measurement and analysis practices and techniques, and collects and disseminates data on the costs and benefits of improved software engineering practices.
- The Software Engineering Information Repository (SEIR) offers data and customized analyses of the software engineering practices that lead to improvement.
Effective software acquisition practices and visibility into the software contracts you oversee?
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The SEI Acquisition Support Program (ASP) helps the DoD and other government acquirers make evolutionary and revolutionary improvements in the acquisition of software-intensive systems.
Software process research team, networking groups, and awards?
- International Process Research Consortium (IPRC) is process research team that consists of distinguished experts from around the world and recognized leaders in the field. The SEI has created the IPRC to explore the frontiers of process research and lay the groundwork for future process technologies.
- Software process improvement networks (SPINs) are groups of people, interested in process improvement, who get together and share their knowledge and experiences with each other. Regional SPINs meet and discuss how to initiate and sustain software process improvement programs.
- The IEEE Computer Society/SEI Software Process Achievement Award (SPA) is an annual award that is given to a software professional or team that is responsible for an improvement to their organization's software process. This award promotes general awareness of software process improvement in the software community.
The work highlighted above is only part of the SEI program of work. The SEI has defined specific initiatives and projects that help organizations to acquire, build, and evolve software-intensive systems predictably on time, within expected cost, and with expected functionality.
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