Special Focus for 2010: YOU! The SEPG North America 2010 Program Committee is focusing on you, your role, your challenges, and the expectations associated with your role. This year's Call for Abstracts included a focus on the various challenges and expectations of critical resources in process improvement and workforce capability.

The complete list of topic categories for 2010 follows:

• Combining models, frameworks, and standards (CMMI+Agile, CMMI+TSP, CMMI+ISO…)
• "How'd they do it?" – case studies/prescriptions on successes in process improvement, dealing with challenges, etc. from real organizations
• Getting started
• Sustaining improvement
• The many paths beyond ML2
• Micro, small, and medium size settings
• Strategic planning, strategic processes
• Aligning process improvement with business value
• People, teams, and the workforce
• Benefits, impact, and performance results
• Innovation through process capability
• Communicating business objectives for optimal process improvement
• Agile adoption of CMMI to speed investment returns
• Measuring what you've accomplished
• Process transparency and evidence collection
• Service development and delivery
• Value-added QA, CM, MA, cyber, etc.
• Using tools and services for PI
• Agile and cloud computing
• Moving fast, saving money, and delivering quality with proven software engineering processes
• Improving your IT outsourcing using CMMI for Acquisition
• Leveraging CMMI to secure your enterprise
• Setting and evolving process objectives
• High maturity benefits and challenges
• Processes for a down economy (or any economy), i.e. cost saving measures
• Simulation and predictive modeling
• Is process improvement improving your performance?
• Vendor demonstrations (this track is specifically for exhibitors)