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First Workshop on CMMI High Maturity Measurement Brings Organizations Together
Organizations are increasingly looking for guidance on what it takes to reach high maturity and how to keep improving once they get there. As high-maturity organizations work to improve their use of measurement and analysis, they often look to examples of successful implementations for direction. In response to the need for clarification and guidance on implementing measurement and analysis in the context of high-maturity processes, members of the SEI’s Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis (SEMA) initiative organized a workshop at the 2008 SEPG North America conference to bring leaders in the field together at a forum focused specifically on this topic.
Process Improvement in a Multimodel Environment Builds Resilient Organizations
“Successful improvement in a multimodel environment is essential to building the resilient organization. And resilient organizations have the agility to achieve and maintain competitive advantage,” Mike Phillips of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) told participants at the recent Hard Questions for Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments workshop sponsored by Lockheed Martin Corporation and the SEI. Organizational growth and evolution test that agility and underscore the need for an integrated approach to using the multiple improvement processes, added Ray Johnson, chief technology officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation in his keynote address at the May 8, 2008, workshop.