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CMMI for Small Businesses: Initial Results of the Pilot Study

An Interview with Paul Nielsen, New Director of the SEI

Benchmarking for Improvement in Army Acquisition
Making the Use of the DoDAF Easier for DoD Organizations

 

2004 | 2

Microsoft's Pilot of TSP Yields Dramatic Results

Calculating Return on Investment for Software Product Lines

CERT/CC Instrumental in National Security Effort
SEPG 2004 Showcases Enterprise Process Improvement in Orlando

 

 

2004 | 1

3rd International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems

The SEI Partner Network: Providing Authentic SEI Services and Training

Using Six Sigma in Software Development
TSP Accelerates Software Quality Improvements at NAVAIR
 

 

Volume 6 | Issue 3 | Fourth Quarter 2003

CMMI Adoption Trends

CERT's Function Extraction Project: Exploring Program Behavior for Security Analysis

Strategic Technology Transition: A New Kind of Partnership
New Credentials Program Developed by SEI Education and Training
 

 

Volume 6 | Issue 3 | Third Quarter 2003

e-RA Method Simplifies Decision Making for Authentication Requirements

New Software Architecture Curriculum Developed

New Acquisition Conference a Hit with Attendees
A Life-Cycle Approach to Technology Transition
 

 

Volume 6 | Issue 2 | Second Quarter 2003

Documenting Software Architectures

Second International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems

SEPG 2003 Attendance Tops 1,500
New CERT Certification to Train Computer Security Incident Handlers
Improving Workforce Capabilities with the People Capability Maturity Model
 

 

Volume 6 | Issue 1 | First Quarter 2003

The Good News About COTS

The Acquisition Support Program

OCTAVE Users' Forum: Helping to Build a Community of Practice
Taking the Road Less Traveled: The CMMI Continuous Approach
 

 

Volume 5 | Issue 4 | Fourth Quarter 2002
OCTAVE Developers Reach Out to Smaller Organizations with OCTAVE-S
SEI Hosts Software Product Line Conference

Managing Risks in Modernizing Legacy Systems

CMMI Myths and Realities

 

Volume 5 | Issue 3 | Third Quarter 2002
Accelerating CMMI® Implementation with Technology Adoption Tools
Carnegie Mellon Educates Next Generation of Information-Security Experts
Software Architecture Book Provides Practical Guidance about Documentation
New Book Helps Organizations Take Charge of Information Security

 

Volume 5 | Issue 2 | Second Quarter 2002
Preventing Security-Related Defects
TIDE: Promoting Technology Adoption Through Technology Collaboration
First International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems a Success
CERT/CC and Secret Service Collaborate on Security

 

Volume 5 | Issue 1 | First Quarter 2002
SEI Architecture Practices Propel Successful Startup
Cost-Benefit Analysis Method
Information Security Training and Education
The Software Technology Review

 

Volume 4 | Issue 4 | Fourth Quarter 2001
At the Heart of the Revolution: The International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems
A Process for Evaluating COTS Software Products
The Internet Security Alliance: Leadership in Information Security
TransPlant: Helping Organizations to Make the Transition

 

Volume 4 | Issue 3 | Third Quarter 2001
Software Product Line Practice Patterns
Building Systems from Commercial Components
Transitioning to CMMI
Using Easel to Study Complex Systems

 

 

Volume 4 | Issue 2 | Second Quarter 2001
Securing Information Assets
The TIDE Program: Strengthening the Defense Manufacturing Base
SEIR Reaches 10,000 Users
Software Architecture Evaluation: A Key to System Success
Overcoming the Challenges of COTS

 

Volume 4 | Issue 1 | First Quarter 2001
Pursue Better Software, Not Absolution for Defective Products
Finding Errors Using Model-Based Verification
Intrusion Detection Systems
Improving Technology Adoption Using INTRo
Advancing the State of Software Product Line Practice

 

Volume 3 | Issue 3 | Summer 2000
Evaluating Risks in COTS Acquisition Programs
Identifying Quality Attributes
CMMI: Getting to Version 1.0
Information Security Training and Education

 

Volume 3 | Issue 2 | Spring 2000
Putting the Team Software Process Into Practice
Component-Based Systems
Countering the Threat of Internet Denial of Service Attacks
Probing Product Line Practices

 

 

Volume 3 | Issue 1 | March 2000
Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis
A Practical Approach to Improving Pilots
A Discussion of Open Source Software

 

Volume 2 | Issue 4 | December 1999
CMMI Models Revisited
CMMI: The Evolution of Process Improvement
Continuous and Staged, a Choice of CMMI Representations
Roundtable Interview on CMMI

 

 

Volume 2 | Issue 3 | September 1999
Product Line Practice: An Effort Worth Making
A Framework for Software Product Line Practice
Software Product Lines: A New Paradigm for the New Century
Product Lines in Practice at Three Major Corporations
A Scenario for Using the Product Line Practice Framework

 

Volume 2 | Issue 2 | June 1999
Checking In on a Process Improvement Revolution
Pathways to Process Maturity: The Personal Software Process and Team Software Process
Delivering on the Promise of Process Improvement
Tales from the Front Lines: Insights from PSP/TSP Trainers and Researchers

 

 

Volume 2 | Issue 1 | March 1999
Software Requirements Engineering
Requirements Engineering
Meeting the Challenges of Requirements Engineering
Requirements Engineering Roundtable

 

Volume 1 | Issue 3 | December 1998
CERT Coordination Center Celebrates Ten Years
Security of the Internet
Interview with Richard D. Pethia
The Next Ten Years

 

 

Volume 1 | Issue 2 | September 1998
Capability Maturity Model Integration
Capability Maturity Model Process Improvement
CMM Integration (CMMI) Framework
Discussion with Members of the CMMI Integration (CMMI) Steering Group

 

 

Volume 1 | Issue 1 | June 1998
COTS Software Evaluation
The Opportunities and Complexities of Applying Commercial Off-the-Shelf Components
How COTS Software Affects the Design of COTS-Intensive Systems
Discussion with Members of the SEI COTS-Based Systems Initiative
   
 
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