Interpreting the CMMI - A Process Improvement Approach
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Kulpa, Margaret K. Interpreting the CMMI : a process improvement approach / Margaret K. Kulpa, Kent A. Johnson, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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About the Authors
Margaret Kulpa is the Chief Operating Officer of AgileDigm, Incorporated. As such, she provides senior-level management support for SEI initiatives and software process improvement. Her work includes writing materials and providing training for Software Capability Evaluations (SCEs), Capability Maturity Model training, and process improvement training, as well as performing these evaluations and improvement activities. Ms. Kulpa has over 30 years of consulting experience. She has experience in all phases of the system development life cycle, focusing on management, coding, quality assurance and testing, training, database design and analysis, technical writing and editing, business process reengineering (BPR), and electronic data processing (EDP) auditing (twenty years total, including ten years of management experience in large-scale mainframe and client/server applications). Her most recent assignments have involved software process improvement (eleven years) and software performance engineering (three years ). These services have been provided to federal government (U.S.) clients , as well as to the private sector. She is an SEI-authorized SCE Lead Evaluator and is also authorized by the SEI to teach both the Introduction to the CMM and the SCE Team training course. She is an SCE Lead Evaluator for not only the Software CMM, but also for the Software Acquisition CMM and has performed over 60 SCEs. Ms. Kulpa was a featured speaker in the cutting-edge category at the 2002 Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Her presentation, entitled "CMMI ” Not for the Little Guy?" discussed the advantages and disadvantages of small organizations thinking about transitioning to the CMMI from the CMM.
Ms. Kulpa was a member of the CMM version2 Author and Reviewer Team. She has worked with clients in five countries to improve their processes.
Kent A. Johnson is the Director of Systems Engineering for TeraQuest and an SEI-authorized CBA IPI [1] Lead Assessor, an authorized SCAMPI [2] Lead Assessor, and an authorized CMMI Instructor. Mr. Johnson's background includes over 25 years of experience in the development of complex software- intensive systems. He provides training, consulting, and assessments for clients working to improve their systems and software development capabilities. He works with clients in a variety of industries, and has successfully helped organizations go from Level 1 to Level 5. He has conducted over 20 formal assessments, including systems engineering assessments and several high-maturity software assessments. Internationally, he has helped clients in nine countries improve their systems and software processes.
Mr. Johnson is a former project manager of the Process and Methods Program at the Software Productivity Consortium (SPC). While at the SPC, he co- authored and led the team that created the software and system development method used by over 800 engineers in a dozen companies for the development of the F-22 Advanced Tactical Fighter. He is also a co-author of the book Ada 95 Quality and Style published by Springer. Prior to joining the SPC, he was a Senior Engineering Scientist at the Electronics and Space Division of Emerson Electric Company, where he successfully managed the development and integration of several complex software-intensive systems.
Mr. Johnson presents tutorials on systems and software engineering, process improvement, and development methodologies at international conferences. He is a past Chairman, International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), Systems Architecture Working Group.
[1] CMM -Based Appraisals for Internal Process Improvement.
[2] SCAMPI and SCAMPI Lead Assessor are service marks of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
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