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Saturday, May 22nd, 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 discussions with participants ensued later in the conference week. Following Linda Rising‘s good keynote advice on using the Just Say Thanks pattern, I’d like to publicly thank Aldo for co-presenting it with me, and express my deep appreciation to Elizabeth for her extensive preparation work and thoughtful support as we developed the tutorial together.
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
SATURN is coming!
In May I’ll be co-presenting a half-day tutorial at SATURN 2010 on “Efficient Software Technology Evaluations Leveraging ADD” with a colleague. We’d love to have you join our tutorial (T2), so if you haven’t yet registered, please consider signing up! Or even if you’ve already registered, you can still add our tutorial at the early bird rate (deadline is Friday).
Either way, if you’re going to SATURN too, drop me a note here – or send me a tweet and I’ll add you to my SATURN list on twitter. We look forward to meeting you in Minneapolis in May!
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Wednesday, March 24th, 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 tweeted via LinkedIn that I was “ready for , and looking forward to [re]connecting with interesting people there.” Here are some links you can use to see what’s going on:
Blog posts by some of the interesting people I’ve met up with here:
It’s already been a great week for reconnecting – with Beth Layman (http://www.laymanandlayman.com), more than a few TSP colleagues from SEI and other companies, and someone I enjoyed working with (but last saw/spoke with) 15 years ago in another state.
I’ve been taking a few pictures and some softcopy notes, which I’ll upload later; I’ll be updating this entry with additional names and links during the rest of the week, and I’ll summarize my key takeaways and recurring themes when it’s over. Enjoy – comments and questions welcome!
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
2010 has been super busy so far, and is off to a great start. In addition to a new IEEE Computer Society meeting panel invitation, and our previously accepted SEPG 2010 presentation on requirements engineering metrics, the Agile Teams collaborators now have a half-day tutorial accepted at SATURN. If you’re also attending SEPG or SATURN this year, please look for us and say hi!
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Our HAoSE 2009 paper and poster on “Measuring Collaboration in Globally Distributed Software Development Teams” was very well received. We also have had two new papers recently accepted for presentation:
Our Agile Teams publications and conferences pages are now updated to include these papers, as well as our 2009Q2 ABB Review journal article, “Metamorphosis“. (PDF copies of our published papers which are not linked to this site are available on request.)
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
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. Here’s the abstract:
Corporations must adapt rapidly to changing markets and adopt new technologies to remain competitive. Such adaptations are particularly important in a rapidly changing economic climate. Flexibility and a willingness to change are important qualities that must be fostered and encouraged, at all levels, if businesses are to respond effectively to shifts in product demands or to altered customer requirements. To encourage a positive environment for such change, the process for change must be carefully planned, well managed, properly justified and applied with sensitivity. ABB uses the IDEALSM 1.0 model as a framework to guide improvement processes so that effective changes are deployed efficiently.
The article discusses use of IDEAL for both process improvements, such as within the CMMI framework, and technology improvements guided by architecture evaluation methods such as AHEAD. We hope you enjoy it – comments welcome here, or on twitter @agile_teams!
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
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), someone did root cause analysis (e.g. why? … why? …), identified coat hangers as the culprit, and took this action to try to prevent future defects.
Commendable, right?
But I looked around the entire hotel room and realized I still had no good place to hang my wet raincoat.
This exemplifies a saying I recall hearing in an SEI Six Sigma training class last year, and earlier in a QFD class:
“Just because nothing is wrong, doesn’t mean anything is right.”
Taking corrective and preventive actions, and driving defect levels towards zero, may be useful and necessary, but is not sufficient to achieve true high quality. Satisfaction of real customer needs matters most. It would be neither hard nor expensive to install a coat hook somewhere in the hotel room for wet/snowy/dirty/… outergarments. Adding this small amenity would not only dilute the temptation to guests who might otherwise hang wet coats on the sprinklers, they’d be less likely to drape them over the chairs in the rooms, which probably isn’t good for the wood or upholstery, …
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
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 to the conference publishers’ permission policies, after the conferences.
We also set a new personal-best record for accepted papers at the CMMI Technology Conference: seven! The papers include lessons learned from geographically distributed appraisals and innovative approaches to economic valuation of SPI activities. PDFs are now available online at the NDIA site and via our 2008 CMMI Technology conference page.
(Conferences page has been updated – Publications page, by date, will follow soonis now up to date too.)
We’ve also recently vetted our 2009 RE (requirements engineering) research roadmap with management, and are diving into some exciting new areas of work – stay tuned 🙂 Also mulling whether to submit papers for RE2009 and/or Agile 2009 …
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
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 nice balance between efficiency and accuracy (agility and discipline) in performing objective software technology evaluations. Our research results are just now ‘hitting the press’ … the first paper was well received at the QFD Symposium last week, and two others have been accepted at conferences and will be presented in March. Please check out AHEAD – we’d love to hear your comments and suggestions for improving and applying it!
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