Some 1,700 software and systems engineers and managers representing 25 countries attended the 14th annual SEPGSM conference.

The conference offered presentations, tutorials, and keynote
addresses on software process improvement, particularly incorporating the Capability Maturity Model® (CMM®) and the CMM IntegrationSM (CMMI®) models into organizations’ projects and departments, and success stories from organizations using the Personal Software ProcessSM (PSPSM) and the Team Software ProcessSM (TSPSM).

The keynote speakers were Watts Humphrey from the SEI, Barry Boehm of the University of Southern California Center for Software Engineering, Stan Rifkin of Master Systems, Inc., and Michael Mah, editor of Information Technology Metrics Strategy and owner/partner of Quantitative Software Management Associates, Inc.