'SEI' Category
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SATURN 2010
A very full week at SATURN 2010 is now over. I’ll be summarizing the sessions I attended on our WordPress blog shortly, but in brief: it was an excellent conference offering great networking opportunities and bringing much-needed attention to effectively combining architecture with agility.
Our AHEAD tutorial on Tuesday morning was well-received, and several enjoyable, thought-provoking […] -
see you at SATURN?
Come to the SATURN software architecture conference in Minneapolis on May 17-21! We’ll be presenting a half-day tutorial (T2), and would love to see you there (drop us a comment or tweet).
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adventures at SEPG 2010
I’m at SEPG North America in Savannah this week, and at the halfway point it’s already exceeded what I expected when I posted on LinkedIn that I was “ready for #SEPGNA, and looking forward to [re]connecting with interesting people there.” Here are some links you can use to see what’s been going on.
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upcoming events
Come and see us at SEPG 2010 and SATURN 2010!
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recent publications
Three recent Agile Teams papers: “Measuring Collaboration in Globally Distributed Software Development Teams” at HAoSE2009, “Requirements Quality Metrics” workshop at ISSRE 2009, and “Applying Requirements Metrics To Guide Project Management And Assess Process Improvements” at SEPG 2010
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architectural evaluation for usability
Recently announced on the SATURN software architecture blog: A tool to support evaluating an architecture for usability, based on collaboration of ABB’s Pia Stoll with the SEI and Carnegie Mellon University. Their A-PLUS tool supports efficient evaluations of software architecture with respect to usability concerns, and is now available for download. Check it out!
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Metamorphosis
Aldo, Andy, and I have just co-authored an article entitled “Metamorphosis: Adapting rapidly to change using the IDEAL improvement model” for the Q2 2009 issue of the ABB Review journal. Comments welcome!
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why even defect prevention isn’t enough
During a recent stay at a reasonably nice hotel, I was looking for a place to hang up my wet raincoat when I noticed this sign on the wall, up high. Clearly there had been problems in the past with sprinkler malfunctions, and after one or more incidents of ‘defect correction’ (fixing the sprinkler malfunctions), […]
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moving AHEAD
Our recent work with developing and applying AHEAD, which blends requirements engineering, AHP, architecture analysis, and prototyping for software technology evaluations, has been well received. Since the QFD Symposium, we’ve had papers on different aspects of the AHEAD method accepted by IASTED, SEPG, SAC, and SATURN! These AHEAD papers will be made available, subject […]
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getting AHEAD
In conjunction with our colleague Elizabeth, Aldo, Qingfeng, and I have recently completed several new papers on the AHEAD method which emerged from a recent software technology evaluation project. AHEAD stands for Attribute Hierarchy-based Evaluation of Architectural Designs; the method blends the SEI’s Attribute-Driven Design (ADD) with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to deliver a […]
