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Standardizing Your Software Process Improvement Initiatives

"On Demand"

Moderator: Scott Roy Smith

Speaker:
Susan K. (Kathy) Land, Principle Software and Systems Engineer, MITRE Corporation

Process improvement methodologies do not tell users 'how' to satisfy their criteria as they are typically descriptive. These methodologies do not describe how to accomplish their goals but describe the criteria that the end results should support. Standards, however, are prescriptive. Standards describe how to fulfill the requirements associated with effective organizational process improvement and software project management. They are effective tools for the definition and managed improvement of the software development process.

Ms. Land will present brief descriptions of several process methodologies — the CMMI, ISO 9001, and Lean Six Sigma — and how international process and IEEE Systems and Software Engineering Standards might be best applied in support of each of these models. She will describe how these standards might be used to define a foundation of software and systems engineering processes and practices that might be used to ensure:

• CMMI Level 2/3 compliance
• ISO 9001 compliance

Who should attend:

• Software engineering practitioners
• Software process owners
• Software project managers
• Software team members
• Government software developing organizations
• DoD support contractors
• Quality managers
• Quality engineers
• Software quality auditors/assessors

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