Target Audience:
QA practitioners, project managers, software managers, software developers, and anyone interested in process improvement and assessment

Level: Just starting to Advanced

What will you learn :

• Understand how Agile software techniques can be applied to process development efforts
• Gain an overview of the process development life cycle
• Methods to plan, design, develop and manage the rollout of new processes to the organization, some derived from various software design and development techniques
• Lessons learned from a real-world example

Description:
This presentation presents techniques borrowed from the Agile and software development world to both design processes and to reduce the overall time to achieve institutionalization of new processes. The topics to be covered are a) applying Agile methods to process improvement, b) applying software development techniques to process development, c) what additional gains can be had via technology improvements, f) leveraging the internet and IEEE standards to speed process development, g) employing the continuous representation of the CMMI model, h) issues associated with QA, and i) issues associated with resistance, and j) effective process rollout management strategies.

Outline:

• Objectives
• (Agile Development) Defined
• Agile (Process Development) Defined
• Issues, Obstacles, and Challenges
• Process Development Planning
• Class Exercise #1
• Break
• Process Architecture
• Process Design and Development
• Class Exercise #2
• Lunch
• Metrics-Based Process Tailoring
• Process Rollout Management
• Tweaking and Adaptation
• Class Exercise #3
• Break
• CMMI Model Implementation Choices
• Real-World Example
• Lessons Learned
• Summary
• Q&A

Prerequisites:
Experience with process or software development and implementation is a plus. Knowledge of the CMMI model is not required, although an overview of its components would be helpful. This presentation is general in nature and only briefly touches on the possible applications to a CMMI-based implementation. The real world example is a CMMI implementation example; however, the terms will be explained in the course of the presentation.

Presenter:
Nelson Perez, President
Sierra’s Edge, Inc. 

Nelson Perez is president of Sierra’s Edge, Inc. (an SEI Partner). With over 20 years work experience, Perez has worked the entire life cycle and held numerous management and engineering positions on such high visibility programs as the B2 Stealth Bomber; NASA Space Shuttle; and Homeland Defense. He has co-authored 1 NASA-related patent and his first process improvement effort helped garner the US Air Force/TRW SOF EISE program the 21st Century Partnership Team Quality Award.