I am seeking individuals or groups interested in providing online training in the areas of Six Sigma and CMMI (DEV and SVC most particularly). I have built a small ‘initial’ prototype for viewing at: http://ambientwebs.org/moodle It is not an address that I intend to use when the site goes into production; but for now ‘any [...]
PEP is pleased to announce that both Judah Mogilensky and Mark Rabideau are now SEI Certified Lead Appraisers for Services and also SEI Certified Instructors for the SEI Services Supplement for CMMI v1.2. To quote the SEI:
SEI-Certified SCAMPI Lead Appraisers for Services can use the SCAMPI appraisal materials, including appraisal team training materials, only [...]
As of 20 March 2009, both Judah Mogilensky and Mark Rabideau have been certified by the SEI (Software Engineering Institute) as High Maturity SCAMPI Lead Appraisers (HMLA) for CMMI for Development. This role now appears under Process Enhancement Partners listing on the SEI Partner Directory. To quote the SEI:
SEI-Certified SCAMPI High Maturity Lead Appraisers (SCAMPI [...]
On February 26, 2009, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) announced the release of its much anticipated CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC). Just as the CMMI model extended the coverage of the original Software CMM to also include development of hardware and systems products, this new CMMI model covers the establishment, management, and delivery of services. [...]
Happy 75th Jerry! A new book celebrating Gerald (Jerry) M. Weinberg for the time that he has given [...]
Of late I have spent a great deal of time working on the following premise:
Can you use Six Sigma to achieve CMMI ML3 and higher?
The answer I have arrived at is an unequivocal, YES. To prove my point I just completed a Master Black Belt project that precisely attends to this assumption.
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Effective 1 June 2008, Mark Rabideau completed and is now a 6 Sigma Master Black Belt.
Mark’s final project involved the creation of a detailed program to assist engineering organizations attain CMMI version 1.2 Maturity Level 3 using 6 Sigma Techniques
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The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon University holds the following marks:
SM – IDEAL, SCAMPI, CMMI, Interim Profile, Personal Software Process, PSP, SCE, Team Software Process, and TSP are service marks of Carnegie Mellon University.
®- Capability Maturity Model, [...]
PEP’s Approach to Process Improvement
Process Enhancement Partners, Inc. (PEP) is a professional services organization devoted exclusively to helping software development and maintenance organizations improve:
business performance (in terms of project predictability, product quality, productivity, and decreased project cycle time, etc.) and
quality of life for the software developers (in terms of reduced pressure, reduced overtime, more reasonable [...]
Six Sigma
As organizations engage in CMMI programs, the development of either new and/ or significantly modified business practices is a certainty. The evolution and/or creation of business practices, in an on-going business (set of engineering efforts) generally occur as “punctuated process episodesâ€; as many as 10-20 major punctuated process episodes may be required per CMMI [...]