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 outstanding new collaborator, Dr. Qingfeng He! It also seems likely that agile coaching activities will resume in the near future, based upon grass-roots demand for Scrum, which we’re excited about. Look for more new posts and publications here in the near future!
Archive for the ‘SEI’ Category
growth
Thursday, October 30th, 2008SPIN anywhere
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Check 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.
congratulations, Aldo!
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008I’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 recently, a paper on which he was the lead author comparing Scrum and the project management process areas of CMMI won ‘Best Paper’ in its track (for Lean, Six Sigma, and Agile) at the CMMI Users Group Conference in November 2007. Kudos to Aldo on this well-deserved recognition!
Scrum Meets CMMi
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Excellent article from Dr. Dobbs Journal (Sept. 2007) on “Scrum Meets CMMi“, about the experiences of an SCM tool development company in Spain.
choosing strategies
Monday, January 7th, 2008Today 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 prescriptiveness of PSP, and “TBD” for TSP. The article’s less than a year old, and the author is a respected luminary in the field (I own several of his books and regularly read his writings). This leaves me pondering why such low awareness of PSP/TSP, rarely beyond the (usually inaccurate) sound bite stage, is still so pervasive.
public citation
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007I discovered today that the AIS India website references one of my presentations on agile and TSP (the crossover kayak analogy).
