'SEI' Category
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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 […]
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growth
This blog has been quiet for a while, partly due to a shift in employer focus away from coaching agile, TSP, and CMMI, and towards research in requirements engineering, technology evaluation, and software architecture. I’m delighted to be reviving this blog now with the addition of new topics (including QFD, ADD, AHP, PrIME) and an […]
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SPIN anywhere
Check out the new SEI-approved Virtual SPIN. There isn’t an agile CMMI group (yet), but I do see some agile-related discussions there already. I’ve joined.
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congratulations, Aldo!
I’m so pleased to be able to announce that Aldo Dagnino has been selected as the 2008 winner of the SEI Outstanding Contributor Award, which was presented to him at SEPG 2008 in Tampa, Florida last week. Aldo has consistently published and presented on business-driven process improvement and blending the CMMI with agile methods. Most […]
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Scrum Meets CMMi
Excellent article from Dr. Dobbs Journal (Sept. 2007) on “Scrum Meets CMMi“, about the experiences of an SCM tool development company in Spain.
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choosing strategies
Today I found an essay on choosing development strategies which briefly references PSP and TSP. I generally agree with the essay’s principles and arguments, and the main point that one size does not fit all. But I noticed that the descriptions of PSP and TSP were rudimentary at best - a one-liner on the assumed […]
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public citation
I discovered today that the AIS India website references one of my presentations on agile and TSP (the crossover kayak analogy).









