Every year at SEPG North America, SEI Members have the exclusive opportunity to serve as room monitors and session moderators for two days during the conference.
In exchange for these services, volunteers receive a reduced fee that includes full-conference registration, all meals, and access to all special events for a reduced conference fee of $545.
For more information
www.sei.cmu.edu/sepg/na/2010/volunteers.cfm.
If you are an SEI Member and interested in volunteering, please contact membership@sei.cmu.edu.
Know an SEI Member who is a leader in their field? An SEI Member whose work has resulted in lasting positive change in software and systems engineering or security? Maybe that person is you?
Submit a nomination form to membership@sei.cmu.edu by December 4, 2009 for the SEI Member Awards. Members will be notified by December 18, 2009. Winners will be presented their awards at the SEI Member Assembly which is held during the SEPG North America 2010 conference, March 22-25 in Savannah, Ga. Nominations can be submitted for one of three categories: advocate, contributor or representative.
It's easy to nominate someone or yourself.
1. Download this form, save it to your computer, and complete it. Email it to membership@sei.cmu.edu before December 4, 2009.
2. Or, go to http://tinyurl.com/nr7sxa and complete the online
nomination form on or before December 4, 2009. Please submit
separate forms for each nomination that you submit. Note
Award Recipients will
• Be recognized at the annual SEI Member Assembly
• Receive an engraved award
• Receive a certificate of nomination
• Be acknowledged by their peers and through SEI Member
publications throughout the year
• Be featured in the April 2010 issue of The Monitor
Questions?
Contact SEI Membership Services by phone at 412-268-5800 or
888-201-4479, or send an email to membership@sei.cmu.edu.
Philip Marriott
Quality Consulting Services
Fishers, Indiana
Mary Humphrey
TECQ
Round Rock, Texas
Thomas Norris
Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)
Pataskala, Ohio
Anthony Wyvill
JF Taylor Inc.
Lexington Park, Maryland
Charles McCloud
U.S. Department of Defense
Bristow, Virginia
Sreekumar Shenoy
Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS)
Columbus, Ohio
Brandon Tiqui
American Sentinel University
Imus, Cavite, Philippines
Sadasivam Rengaraj
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Catherine Michaelis
Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS)
Columbus, Ohio
Dan Deakin
Reston, Virginia
Mike Seljuk
Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)
Largo, Florida
SEI Members, check your mailboxes and inboxes. The September 2009 Monitor has just been published. This month’s Monitor cover story highlights the new SEI website and the many members who offered valuable feedback by serving as early reviewers. Another story features CMMI Program Manager Mike Phillips discussing his team’s work on the development of CMMI Version 1.3, which is scheduled for release in November 2010. The SEI Member profile for September shines the spotlight on Larry McCarthy, a managing principal at global process partnerships who also serves on the CMMI Steering Group.
You should be receiving The Monitor via print or pdf this week! Check your mailboxes. If you don't receive it, please email membership@sei.cmu.edu.
SEI Membership is pleased to announce that SEI Members are eligible for a 15% discount off TSP Symposium 2009, which will be held September 21-24 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
For more information, please email membership@sei.cmu.edu or call 888-201-4479 412-268-5800.
One began constructing process improvement models when she was 17, hoping to reduce wait times in lift lines and predict avalanches. Another led the movement to combine the Capability Maturity Model Integration® (CMMI®) and Agile models. Another patented a unique approach to the Team Software Process® (TSP®) model.
All
three are the recipients of the Carnegie Mellon® Software Engineering
Institute (SEI) Member Awards for leadership in the fields of software
and systems engineering. The awards were presented at the SEPG
North America 2009 conference.
Jeff Dalton, CEO of Broadsword Solutions, was awarded the Outstanding Representative Award. Dalton, a leading advocate for combining Agile and CMMI, co-authored an SEI Technical Report on the topic, CMMI or Agile: Why Not Embrace Both? Dalton, a classically-trained musician at the Peabody Institute of Music, once played bass with the Madrid and Mexico City symphonies. He is a frequent present at SEPG and in 2008, his presentation “Notes from the Blogosphere”, was voted best-in-show by attendees.
Brad Hodgins, a TSP Coach and Instructor at the Naval Air Systems Command, was awarded the Outstanding Contributor Award. According to SEI Member Jeff Schwalb, who works with Brad and nominated him, Brad’s team applied and combined software process improvement models, techniques and tools like PSP, TSP, Software CMM and the Earned Value Management System. Through his work, Hodgins began noticing trends in certain actions that TSP coaches needed when working with teams that implement TSP. He constructed them into a model that is used by TSP coaches across the organization.
Barbara Hilden, founder and CEO of the consulting firm Process Improvement for the 21st Century (PI-21), was awarded the Outstanding Advocate Award. When she was 17, and working at ski resorts near her home in Utah, Barbara would construct performance and prediction models to reduce the wait times in life lines and also try to predict where avalanches might occur. She taught and developed courses in software and systems engineering methodologies at numerous universities before working in industry including at Unisys, where she led process improvement efforts. She founded PI-21 in 2003.
“It is such an honor to honor these individuals who have made such a difference in the software and systems engineering community,” said Connie Sapienza-Acker, manager of customer relations at the SEI, in her opening remarks at the assembly.
The three were nominated for the awards by their peers in the SEI Member Community, a global network spanning 36 countries of leaders in the fields of software and systems engineering. For more information, email membership@sei.cmu.edu.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the SEI Membership “Quotable
Quote” contest. We were overwhelmed by the number of high quality
responses we received from our members.
The winning entries were submitted anonymously and then selected by a panel of judges.
They are:
Bruce Anich
Managing Director,
Robbins GIOIA LLC
Member since April 1, 2005
“Being a member of SEI gives me the advantage to stay current on topics, trends, and emerging technologies plus my SEI membership allows me a greater depth and breadth of knowledge and provides reach back capabilities that support making our clients successful.”
Darsi Ewing
Corporate QA Manager,
Tybrin Corp.
Member since January 1, 2006
“As an SEI Member, I enjoy the knowledge sharing and networking from professionals and practitioners of process improvement. The knowledge of the process improvement pioneers, and vision of common goals, binds the community of SEI Members together. I know there is always someone I can ask for help or clarification, or even ‘bounce’ ideas off of. This group of people believe in what they are doing.”
Jeff Dalton
President,
Broadsword Solutions
Member Since September 1, 2005
“I joined the SEI Member program to be part of a community of like-minded people who I could reach out to, both professionally and socially, while I traveled the world performing process improvement consulting and appraisal activities. Nowhere else is there such a rich [diverse] community of people that are passionate about improving the state of the software and engineering industries.”
We are inspired by your responses and vow in the coming year to find even more ways to create a professional network that provides you with all the resources you need. Congratulations again to Bruce, Darsi, and Jeff, and thanks to every member who sent in an entry!
The SEI Membership Services team has created a group on the professional networking site LinkedIn. To join the SEI Membership group, simply go to linkedin.com and sign in or create an account. It's free so Join Today. Network. Participate in online discussions.
Join today and display the SEI Membership logo alongside your profile and to network with other SEI Members. If you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact Membership Services at membership@sei.cmu.edu.
SEI Member Dr. Stefan Ferber, director of the process department in corporate research and advanced engineering at Robert Bosch GmbH in Germany, is an Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) Lead Evaluator and has been working with the ATAM since 2000, well before the SEI even began certifying individuals in this field. He also serves as the Bosch-SEI Business Point of Contact, specifically for Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI® ) topics.
His involvement with software architecture started in 2000 when Bosch adopted the SEI Framework for Software Product Line PracticeSM for several automotive platforms. Ferber became interested in the ATAM— a scenario-based software architecture review method that uses business goals to evaluate the quality of software architecture—because software was becoming increasingly linked to ensuring the quality of embedded systems in vehicles.
Click here to read Stefan's complete profile in The Monitor, just one of the many benefits of SEI Membership. If you are a member and interested in being profile, please email membership@sei.cmu.edu.
