The Source Code Analysis Laboratory (SCALe) Webinar
(November 2012) The Source Code Analysis Laboratory (SCALe) is a proof-of-concept demonstration that software systems can be tested for conformance to secure coding standards, such as The CERT® Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java. This secure coding standard provides secure coding rules for the Java SE 6 Platform including the Java programming language and libraries, and also addresses new features of the Java SE 7 Platform.

An Optimal Real-Time Voltage and Frequency Scaling for Uniform Multiprocessors
(August 2012) Presents the Growing Minimum Frequency (GMF) algorithm for voltage and frequency scaling in uniform multiprocessors for real-time systems.

SEI Agile Research Forum: The Importance of Applying Agile Technologies to Key DoD Software Initiatives
(July 2012) Douglas Schmidt explores what's at stake for a large-scale development organization that is considering or adopting Agile technologies.

SEI Agile Research Forum: Agility and Discipline
(July 2012) In this 2012 webinar, James W. Over of the Software Engineering Institute presents views from research and from his experience in balancing agility and discipline.

SEI Agile Research Forum: Strategic Management of Architectural Technical Debt
(July 2012) Ipek Ozkaya shows you how to spot the sources of technical debt in your project, track it, and use it to your advantage.

SEI Agile Research Forum: Agile Methods: Agile Methods-- Tools, Techniques, and Practices for the DoD Community
(July 2012) Mary Ann Lapham describes research into ways that help the DoD overcome technical and cultural resistance to Agile methods.

CMMI for Services Overview
(July 2012) Overview presentation covering CMMI for Services

Visualising Architectural Dependencies
(June 2012) This presentation was part of the Third Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, held at ICSE 2012.

Defining the Decision Factors for Managing Defects: A Technical Debt Perspective
(June 2012) This presentation was part of the Third Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, held at ICSE 2012.

What Is the Value of Your Software?
(June 2012) This presentation was part of the Third Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, held at ICSE 2012.

Searching for Build Debt: Managing Technical Debt at Google
(June 2012) This presentation was part of the Third Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, held at ICSE 2012.

Technical Debt Aggregation in Ecosystems
(June 2012) This presentation was part of the Third Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, held at ICSE 2012.

The SQALE Method (V1.0) for Managing Technical Debt
(June 2012) This presentation was part of the Third Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, held at ICSE 2012.

Technical Debt and Requirements
(June 2012) This presentation was part of the Third Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, held at ICSE 2012.

Estimating the Principal of Technical Debt
(June 2012) This presentation was part of the Third Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, held at ICSE 2012.

Organizing the Technical Debt Landscape
(June 2012) This 2012 presentation discussed how manage technical debt as part of the research agenda for the software engineering field. It was part of the Third Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, held at ICSE 2012.

Assessing and Avoiding Technical Debt
(June 2012) Barry Boehm discusses how to manage technical debt as part of a research agenda for the software engineering field, in particular focusing on eliciting and visualizing debt and creating payback strategies.

Investigating the Impact of Code Smells Debt on Quality Code Evaluation
(June 2012) This presentation was part of the Third Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, held at ICSE 2012, which discussed how to manage technical debt as part of the research agenda for the software engineering field.

Using Technical Debt Data in Decision Making
(June 2012) This presentation was part of the Third Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, held at ICSE 2012.

Standardizing Speed and Security for Software-Based Systems
(May 2012) Frances Paulisch's IEEE Software talk from SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St. Petersburg, FL.

Panel Discussion: 20 Years of Architecture, Robert Schwanke
(May 2012) Robert Schwanke's slides from the panel discussion on 20 Years of Architecture at the SATURN 2012 conference, May 7-11, 2012, St. Petersburg, FL.

Panel Discussion: 20 Years of Architecture, Douglas Schmidt
(May 2012) Douglas Schmidt's from the panel discussion on 20 Years of Architecture at the SATURN 2012 conference, May 7-11, 2012, St. Petersburg, FL.

Opening Address: SATURN 2012
(May 2012) Linda Northrop's opening address from SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St. Petersburg, FL.

Panel Discussion: 20 Years of Architecture, Linda Northrop
(May 2012) Linda Northrop's slides from the panel discussion on 20 Years of Architecture at the SATURN 2012 conference, May 7-11, 2012, St. Petersburg, FL.

Panel Discussion: 20 Years of Architecture, Rick Kazman
(May 2012) Rick Kazman's's slides from the panel discussion on 20 Years of Architecture at the SATURN 2012 conference, May 7-11, 2012, St. Petersburg, FL.

Panel Discussion: 20 Years of Architecture, Ian Gorton
(May 2012) Ian Gorton's slides from the panel discussion on 20 Years of Architecture at the SATURN 2012 conference, May 7-11, 2012, St. Petersburg, FL.

Panel Discussion: 20 Years of Architecture, Jeromy Carriere
(May 2012) Jeromy Carriere's slides from the panel discussion on 20 Years of Architecture at the SATURN 2012 conference, May 7-11, 2012, St. Petersburg, FL.

Making Architectural Knowledge Sustainable–Industrial Practice Report and Outlook
(May 2012) Olaf Zimmermann's IEEE Software talk from SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St. Petersburg, FL.

Meeting the Challenge of Enterprise Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
(May 2012) Douglas C. Schmidt's keynote presentation from SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St. Petersburg, FL.

Win-Win with Agile Architecture
(May 2012) Michael Stal's keynote presentation from SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St. Petersburg, FL.

Architecture-Based Transformation of a Large Enterprise
(May 2012) Hans Gyllstom's plenary presentation from SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St. Petersburg, FL.

100 People and a Great Idea: Culture and Architecture for Corporate Startups
(May 2012) A presentation from the Certification and Culture track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, in St. Petersburg, FL.

A Pattern for Requirements-Centric Development of Composite Architectures of Enterprise Class Systems: CVS Caremark Approach for Developing Large-Scale Distributed Architecture
(May 2012) A presentation from the Enterprise Architecture track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Establishing Enterprise Security and a Risk Management Program in an Agile Software Development Organization
(May 2012) A presentation from the Enterprise Architecture track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Architect as Leader
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architect Skills track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Architect as Anthropologist: Leveraging Cultural Knowledge to Foster Collaboration
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architect Skills track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Mythology for Architects
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architect Skills track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Common Data Acquisition Systems (DAS) Software Development for Rocket Propulsion Test (RPT) Test Facilities: A General Overview
(May 2012) A presentation from the Large Scale track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Assessing Open-Architecture Systems for Naval Use
(May 2012) A presentation from the Large Scale track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Combined Reuse: Product Line Engineering Meets Service-Oriented Architecture
(May 2012) A presentation from the Large Scale track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Software Architecture for Large/Critical Applications
(May 2012) A presentation from the Large Scale track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Scaling Architecture Evaluations Within Real-World Constraints
(May 2012) A presentation from the Facilitated Architecture Techniques track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Mission Thread Workshops: Lessons Learned
(May 2012) A presentation from the Facilitated Architecture Techniques track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Applying QAW, ADD, and ATAM to Conduct the Architecture's Evolution to Service-Oriented Architecture
(May 2012) A presentation from the Facilitated Architecture Techniques track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Reflecting Stakeholder Perspectives in Architecture Reviews
(May 2012) A presentation from the Facilitated Architecture Techniques track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Community-Sourced Knowledge: Solving the Maintenance Problem
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architecture and Collaboration 2 track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Depicting Interagency Information Sharing Using Systems of Systems
(May 2012) In this 2012 presentation, Jonathan D. Addelston describes an approach intended to help prioritize system descriptions within a U.S. Federal interagency information-sharing effort.

Use of Collaborative Agents and Autonomous Systems Within the Oil and Gas Industry
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architecture and Collaboration 2 track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Driving Out Technical Risk by Blending Architecture, Process, and Project Discipline
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architecture and Process track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Don't Leave Your Architecture Behind...Kanban-Enabled Model-Driven Software Development
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architecture and Process track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

A Mashup of Techniques to Create Reference Architectures
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architecture and Process track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Software Architecture Competence Development and Collaboration
(May 2012) A presentation from the Certification and Culture track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Software Architect Certification as Part of the Lockheed Martin Integrated Architecture Program
(May 2012) A presentation from the Certification and Culture track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

What Agile Architects Do and What They Need
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architecture and Agile 2 track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Architecture Review in Agile Development
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architecture and Agile 2 track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Agile Doesn't Scale...Without Architecture
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architecture and Agile 2 track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Cyber Dumpster Diving: Creating New Systems (That Work) For Less
(May 2012) A presentation from the Evolution and Extensibility track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Analyzing the Evolution of Software Systems by Providing and Relating Different Levels of Change Abstractions
(May 2012) A presentation from the Evolution and Extensibility track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Extensibility as a Collaboration Enabler: A Case Study for Group-Context-Aware Mobile Applications
(May 2012) A presentation from the Evolution and Extensibility track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Multiple Views of System Specifications: Connecting a Distributed Project
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architecture and Collaboration 1 track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Architecture as the Glue: Lessons Learned in Organizing Multiple Agile Teams
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architecture and Collaboration 1 track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Agile Architecture + Outsourcing = Agile Outsourcing
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architecture and Agile 1 track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Creating an Architecture Oral History: Minimalist Techniques for Describing Systems
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architecture and Agile 1 track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

Architecture and Design Evolution: The Agile Way
(May 2012) A presentation from the Architecture and Agile 1 track at SATURN 2012, May 7-11, 2012, St Petersburg, FL.

It Takes an Ecosystem
(April 2012) This presentation introduces the STRategic Ecosystem Analysis Method (STREAM), which uses the architecture construct of a view to reduce model complexity.

Using CMMI-DEV and CMMI-SVC Together
(April 2012) SEPG North America 2012 presentation by Alex Stall & Eileen Forrester

On Resource Overbooking in an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(April 2012) Studies variations in execution times involving a scenario in a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system with a camera that must detect objects in a variety of conditions.

Defined Processes, Evidence, and Rescuing Corporate Knowledge: Achieving Standards Compliance in Agile and Lean Environments
(April 2012) In this 2012 presentation, Dr. Richard Bechtold, President of Abridge Technology, discusses how to achieve standards compliance in Agile and Lean environments.

The California Energy Commission and SGMM: Partners for a Future Vision of Smart Grid (Webinar)
(March 2012) David W. White discusses how the California Energy Commission is using the Smart Grid Maturity Model (SGMM) to help utilities develop a perspective on the future smart grid.

Getting the performance you need from processes that work: The CMMI Accelerated Improvement Method (Webinar)
(March 2012) This 2012 webinar introduces a process improvement method called the CMMI Accelerated Improvement Method, which provides quantifiable performance improvements - leading to a high ROI.

Architecting Software the SEI Way--Analyzing and Evaluating Enterprise Architectures
(February 2012) John Klein reviews the SEI perspective on architecture-centric engineering, and discusses how this approach scales from its original software context through systems-of-systems.

Architecting Software the SEI Way--Architecture Evaluation: A Tool for Designing Systems That Meet Users' Needs
(February 2012) At this 2012 event, Felix Bachmann discussed the concepts used by an Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) that make an evaluation successful, which can be integrated into the architecture design process to ensure the creation of successful systems.

Architecting Software the SEI Way--Software Architecture Fundamentals: Technical, Business, and Social Influences
(February 2012) Although software architecture is a key factor in determining the success or failure of a software system, software professionals throughout the industry continue to struggle with questions like: What exactly is a software architecture? Why is software architecture important?

Time-Bounded Analysis of Real-Time Systems
(October 2011) This presentation considers the problem of verifying functional correctness of periodic Real-Time Embedded Software (RTES), a popular variant of RTES that execute periodic tasks in an order determined by Rate Monotonic Scheduling (RMS).

SEI Partner Network: A Global Network of Trusted Providers
(October 2011) SEI Partner Network: A Global Network of Trusted Providers

A Brief Survey of the Team Software Process (TSP)
(October 2011) In this 2011 presentation, Jim McHale provides a brief overview of the Team Software Process (TSP), discussing what it is, how it works, and how it meshes with other methodologies.

Measuring Operational Resilience
(October 2011) In this presentation, Julia Allen suggests ten strategic resilience measures and the means to derive them for improving organizational security measurements.

Agile Development and Architecture: Understanding Scale and Risk
(October 2011) Ipek Ozikaya discusses how evaluations of tradeoffs and their dependenices must be supported by Agile software development and software architecture practices.

Smart Grid Maturity Model: A Vision for the Future of Smart Grid
(October 2011) This presentation by David W. White offers insight into the Smart Grid Maturity Model (SGMM) as it was used in 2010, along with a description of the SGMM V.1.2 Product Suite.

The Insider Threat: Lessons Learned from Actual Insider Attacks
(October 2011) Randy Trzeciak discusses CERT’s Insider Threat Center and the lessons learned from actual insider attacks in this 2011 SEI Technologies Forum presentation.

Architectural Implications of Cloud Computing by Grace Lewis
(October 2011) In this October 2011 presentation, Grace Lewis of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) discusses the implications that cloud computing has for software architecture.

Software Acquisition Program Dynamics
(October 2011) This presentation, “Software Acquisition Program Dynamics,” was made by William E. Novak of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at the SEI Technologies Forum in 2011.

CMMI-SVC: The Strategic Landscape for Service
(October 2011) Eileen Forrester talks about the CMMI-SVC and the larger strategic choices open to those who consider how superior service can revolutionize both work and business results (2011).

SEI Technologies Forum: Software, Security, and Resiliency
(October 2011) SEI Technologies Forum: Software, Security, and Resiliency by Paul Nielsen.

Ask the CMMI Experts (Webinar)
(August 2011) During this webinar, members of the SEI’s CMMI Product Team lead an interactive session answering your CMMI questions.

Planning a Combined CMMI and AS9100 Appraisal
(August 2011) Planning a Combined CMMI and AS9100 Appraisal

The People CMM as a Contribuor to Other Models and Frameworks
(August 2011) The People CMM as a Contribuor to Other Models and Frameworks

Making Process Improvement Work
(August 2011) Making Process Improvement Work

Multi-Constellation/Model Tutorial
(August 2011) Multi-Constellation/Model Tutorial

CMMI, ITIL, and ISO 20000: A Mutually Supportive Relationship
(August 2011) CMMI, ITIL, and ISO 20000: A Mutually Supportive Relationship

IDEAL-CAUTION Approach for CMMI-Based Process Improvement
(August 2011) IDEAL-CAUTION Approach for CMMI-Based Process Improvement

Agile Process Improvement
(August 2011) In this SEPG Europe 2009 presentation, Malte Foegen, Mareike Solbach, and Claudia Raak of Wibas describes how Agile can be used to improve software processes.

First Steps in Implementing the CMMI for Services Model and ITIL
(August 2011) First Steps in Implementing the CMMI for Services Model and ITIL

SCRUMP (Scrum + RUP) and CMMI
(August 2011) SCRUMP (Scrum + RUP) and CMMI

Sprint with Scrum and Get Work Done
(August 2011) Sprint with Scrum and Get Work Done

Leveraging CMMI-ACQ and CMMI-DEV to Improve Supplier Performance
(August 2011) Leveraging CMMI-ACQ and CMMI-DEV to Improve Supplier Performance

Using Organizational Business Objectives to Guide a Process Improvement Program
(August 2011) In this SEPG North America 2011 presentation, Stevel Masters of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) describes how business objectives drive effective process improvement.

Managing Change: the Human Factor in Process Improvement Initiatives
(August 2011) Managing Change: the Human Factor in Process Improvement Initiatives

CMMI Maturity Level 2: A Foundation for Large-Scale Agile Development
(August 2011) CMMI Maturity Level 2: A Foundation for Large-Scale Agile Development

Doing CMMI the Agile Way
(August 2011) Doing CMMI the Agile Way

Lean CMMI-Based Process Improvement
(August 2011) Lean CMMI-Based Process Improvement

Contracting Blues - CMMI-ACQ Clues!
(August 2011) Contracting Blues - CMMI-ACQ Clues!

Attracting Investment in Process Improvement Through Strategic Positioning
(August 2011) Mark Frazer talks about success through tying into a business’s real goals and making sure executives understand the “whys” of process improvement before exploring other ways to integrate process improvement into the business.

How a Strong and Principled PPQA Overcomes Acute Challenges to Process Improvement
(August 2011) How a Strong and Principled PPQA Overcomes Acute Challenges to Process Improvement

Hidden Treasure: The Implementation of CMMI Practices by Agile Methods
(August 2011) Hidden Treasure: The Implementation of CMMI Practices by Agile Methods

Assorted Chocolates and Cookies in a Multi-Model Box
(August 2011) Assorted Chocolates and Cookies in a Multi-Model Box

Match Point: Who Will Win the Game, ITIL or CMMI-SVC?
(August 2011) Match Point: Who Will Win the Game, ITIL or CMMI-SVC?

Aligning CMMI Implementation and Organizational Strategy for Better Competitive Advantages
(August 2011) In this 2011 SEPG North America presentation, Madhumita Sen and Ron Radice describe how CMMI supports business objectives at IBM through the usage different sample cases of adoption.

Multiple Simultaneous Appraisal Experience
(August 2011) Multiple Simultaneous Appraisal Experience

How to Sell Process Improvement
(August 2011) How to Sell Process Improvement

ASAP: Applying Services (CMMI-SVC) and People CMM
(August 2011) Agapi Svolou and Palma Buttles describe how the combined use of People CMM and CMMI for Services can help develop competitive advantages in the services marketplace.

KISSS - Keep It Simple, Smart, and Sustainable: Agile Process Improvement
(August 2011) KISSS - Keep It Simple, Smart, and Sustainable: Agile Process Improvement

Applying CMMI-SVC Process Areas to CMMI-DEV Projects
(August 2011) In this SEPG North America 2011 presentation, Lynn Penn of Lockheed Martin describes how to apply CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC) process areas to development projects.

Lean Thinking with CMMI
(August 2011) Lean Thinking with CMMI

Making Agile Work for You (Webinar)
(July 2011) Timothy A. Chick gives an understanding on the agile fundamentals, starting with a glance at the most commonly used agile methods before going into a more structured approach.

Service Oriented Architecture: A Quality Attribute Perspective (Webinar)
(June 2011) In this 2011 presentation, Grace Lewis talks about the effect that service oriented architecture has on system quality attributes.

Agile Adoption: Does It Have to Be All In or Fold?
(May 2011) Rebecca Wirfs-Brock's presentation from SATURN 2011 discusses the challenges of Agile adoption in organizations.

Big Ball of Mud: Is This The Best That Agile Can Do?
(May 2011) Joseph Yoder's plenary address from SATURN 2011 discusses issues with the current state of software architecture.

Managing Architecture for Value
(May 2011) John Favaro's presentation from SATURN 2011 explored the topic of architecture and value creation from several points of view.

Architecture in the Age of Compositionality
(May 2011) Jan Bosch explores the implications for software architecture and the role of the software architect while presenting examples from several industries to illustrate specific focus areas.

The Covert Use of Architecture in Rapid Product Development
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 outlines Agile and architectural principles used in product development.

Guidance Models and Decision-Making Tooling for SOA, Cloud, and Outsourcing Solution Design
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 discusses various SOA design decisions.

On-Demand Generation of Views to Support Online Evolution of Software Product Lines
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 codifies the the architecture knowledge required for evoloving products in a given viewpoint.

Using the Corporate Management System to Communicate Architecture Knowledge and Reduce Technical Debt
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 presents a case study from Statoil ASA.

Experimentation in the Use of Service Orientation in Resource-Constrained Environments
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 discusses work done in off-the-shelf SOA technologies in military environments.

Architecture Documentation for Agile Development
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 provides an overview of the automatic Abstract Specification Tool.

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Architects
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 explains how the role of a software architect can be carried out easily and efficiently.

Next Generation Architects for a Harsh Business World: Sourcing Non-Traditional Talent and Revamping Existing Talent
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 discusses skills that exceptional software architects should possess to succeed.

Agile Architecture: What the Agile Architect Can Learn From a Hurricane Meteorologist
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 contrasts Agile architecture and meteorology to find a way to define and update architecture plans.

Nurturing the Domain: Avoiding the "Pig in a Poke"
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 deals with the domain structure of various types of systems.

Dealing with the Complexities of a Global Service-Oriented Architecture
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 presents a case study from Credit Suisse about global SOA-based IT landscapes.

Collaborative Design with the Software Architecture Warehouse
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 discusses the Software Architecture Warehouse (SAW), a web-based tool for distributed architecture design teams.

How to Break a Mammoth Project into Bite-Size Pieces
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 provides insight on how to understand and break down customer requirements.

Evaluating a Partial Architecture in a ULS Context
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 discusses the application of architectural principles to analyzing an architectural landscape.

Architectural Implications of Cloud Computing
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 discusses cloud computing from a software architecture perspective.

Organizational Design Thinking
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 presents several case studies about organizational architectural practices.

Themes for Architecture Success
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 examines the cultural infrastructure that underlies successful architectural initiatives.

Design and Implementation of an Agile Price Management Platform for Banking
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 descirbes Credit Suisse's new price-management platform by using the federated architecture pattern.

Capability Maturity Model Integration V1.3 and Architecture-Centric Engineering
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 discusses the integration of architecture-centric engineering principles into CMMI V1.3.

Mission Thread Workshops: Lessons Learned in End-to-End Capability and Quality Attribute Specification for SoS Architecture Development
(May 2011) A presentation from SATURN 2011 that explains lessons learned from mission thread workshops (MTW) as an early architecture development step.

Why Good Architects Act As Chameleons
(May 2011) A presentation from SATURN 2011 that discusses case studies about different aspects of architecture work.

Agile Product Line Architecture
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 discusses how Agile can help improve software product lines.

Towards Automation of Architectural Tactics Application: An Example With ArchE
(May 2011) A presentation from SATURN 2011 that details new system capabilities for ArchE.

Low Ceremony Architecture
(May 2011) This presentation from SATURN 2011 shows how and when investments in architecture can pay the greatest dividends.

Using Architecture-Centric Engineering on a TSP Project
(May 2011) A presentation from SATURN 2011 on architecture-centric engineering and its uses with TSP.

CMMI for Services Agile Strategy
(May 2011) CMMI for Services Agile Strategy

Applying CMMI for Services to Health Care
(May 2011) In this 2011 presentation, Eileen C. Forrester of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) shows how CMMI for Services can be applied to health care.

Preview of SEPG Europe 2011: Global Excellence in Software and Security (Webinar)
(May 2011) Alan Willett introduces the keynote speakers for SEPG Europe 2011 in this webinar and provides more in-depth information on the technical tracks that make up the SEPG 2011 program.

Assurance Cases for Medical Devices (Webinar)
(April 2011) In this presentation, Chuck Weinstock gives a brief introduction to assurance cases. He discusses how they are developed and why they are useful.

Using CERT-RMM in a Software and System Assurance Context
(March 2011) Presented at SEPG North America 2011 on Thursday, March 24

Application of the CERT® Resilience Management Model at Lockheed Martin
(March 2011) Presented at SEPG North America 2011 on Thursday, March 24

Architecture+TSP = High Quality+Fast (Webinar)
(March 2011) This presentation on software architecture and the TSP was delivered by Felix Bachmann, Jim McHale, and Robert Nord at the SEI’s SATURN 2011 workshop.

Empower Your Smart Grid Transformation (Webinar)
(March 2011) David W. White introduces the Smart Grid Maturity Model (SGMM) and discusses how it can be used to help utilities assess their current state of smart grid implementation.

Emerging Technologies for Software-Reliant Systems (Webinar)
(February 2011) In this 2011 presentation, Grace Lewis presents general computation trends and a set of emerging technologies to support the trends for software-reliant SoS such as cloud computing and mobile computing.

Architectural Knowledge Management: Decision Guidance in Service-Oriented Architecture Design (Webinar)
(February 2011) Olaf Zimmermann introduces a novel architectural decision modeling framework called SOAD, which repurposes architectural decisions from mere documentation artifacts to reusable design guides.

What’s Happening at SEPG North America 2011: A Portland Preview (Webinar)
(January 2011) This webinar introduces participants to the keynote speakers, technical tracks, and technical track chairs that make up the SEPG North America 2011.

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) V1.3 and Architecture-Centric Engineering (Webinar)
(January 2011) Lawrence G. Jones and Michael D. Konrad address the basics of architecture-centric engineering, and discuss where and how these practices are reflected in the CMMI model.

Maximizing the Investment from Your Software Product Portfolio (Webinar)
(November 2010) Linda Northrop describes the basic concepts of software product lines, summarizing the software engineering and management practices needed for a product line approach.

Panel Discussion of the Master of Science in Information Technology-Software Engineering Management (Webinar)
(November 2010) This panel discussion – led by Dr. Phil Miller – gives prospective CMU MSIT-SEM students insight into the program and how it can prepare them to become leaders in their organization.

Are You Ready for the Release? What You Need to Know About CMMI V1.3 (Webinar)
(October 2010) In this 2010 webinar, Eileen Forrester discusses the release of CMMI V1.3 and additional plans for CMMI-SVC for 2011.

Improving Customer Satisfaction: A People CMM Perspective (Webinar)
(October 2010) This webinar explores how the People Capability Maturity Model (People CMM) can improve workforce practices that contribute to improved customer service delivery.

Benefits of CMMI Within the Defense Industry
(October 2010) This presentation shows data from DoD organizations demonstrating that effective implementation of good practices aided by CMMI can improve cost, schedule, and quality performance.

Securing Information in the Health-Care Industry: Network Security, Incident Management, and Insider Threat (Webinar)
(September 2010) Greg Porter and Randy Trzeciak provide some essential elements that healthcare technology executives should consider in order to secure patient information and systems from external threats.

Speculations on Coordination Models
(August 2010) Len Bass's keynote presentation from ICGSE 2010 talks about the structure of coordination models, especially after development has begun.

Transforming Your Operational Resilience Management Capabilities: CERT’s Resilience Management Model (Webinar)
(July 2010) Rich Caralli, architect of CERT’s Resilience Management Model (CERT RMM), will describe how an organization can use the RMM to transform its operational resilience.

The Next Generation of Process Evolution (Webinar)
(July 2010) Gene Miluk challenges fundamental assumptions regarding the implementation of CMMI, and more and discusses how the SEI is defining the next generation of process evolution.

Software Architecture Fundamentals: Technical, Business, and Social Influences (Webinar)
(July 2010) Rob Wojcik discusses the the role that software architecture plays in an organization, the role of quality attribute requirements in architectural design, and more.

Critical Lessons Learned in the Content and Delivery of Six Sigma Training (Webinar)
(June 2010) In this webinar, Robert W. Stoddard and David Zubrow summarize critical lessons learned from several large corporations in both the content and delivery of Six Sigma training.

Introduction to the Team Software Process (SEPG Europe 2010)
(June 2010) James W. Over provides an introduction to the Team Software Process (TSP), which helps engineering teams to develop and deliver high-quality software-intensive systems within planned cost and schedule commitments.

Securing Global Software Supply Chains (Webinar)
(June 2010) This webinar will discuss an ongoing SEI effort to develop an approach for assessing software supply chains and identifying the associated software assurance risks.

SCAMPI v1.3: Sampling (Webinar)
(June 2010) In this second webinar about SCAMPI v1.3, the SCAMPI Upgrade Team will be sharing detailed information about the scoping and sampling process designed for the method upgrade.

Enterprise Architecture for the Smart Grid: A Status Update
(June 2010) This 2010 presentation by Elizabeth Sisley includes excerpts from the second draft of the NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR), with a discussion about their creation.

Introducing Software Architecture Development Methods into a TSP-Based Development Company
(June 2010) This presentation describes an ongoing project whose aim is to introduce software architecture development methods inside Quarksoft, a leading Mexican software development company certified at CMMI level 3 (2010).

Assessing Commercial Off-the-Shelf Software in Industry Using ATAM and RUP Analysis
(June 2010) Marcel Derosier discusses the results of a series of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)-based implementations using Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) and modified Rational Unified Processes (RUPS).

The Use of Change Cases in Software System Architecting
(June 2010) In this presentation, J.D. Baker discusses how change cases relate to ATAM growth scenarios and how they can be employed in the development and assessment of software system architectures.

Quality Attribute Workshop Experiences and Reflections
(June 2010) Pia Stoll, Anders Wall, and Roland Weiss describe experiences and reflections they made from performing Quality Attribute Works (QAWs) at three different business units within ABB.

An Architectural Decision Modeling Framework for SOA and Cloud Design
(June 2010) In this presentation, Olaf Zimmermann shows how reusable architectural decision models can support service-oriented architecture and cloud design through SOA Decision Modeling (SOAD).

Engineering Lessons for Systems of Systems Learned from Service-Oriented Systems
(June 2010) Grace Lewis gives a bottom-up approach that focuses on abstracting the concepts and lessons learned from specific examples of engineering systems of systems (SoSs).

Cloud Computing Architecture
(June 2010) In this presentation, Gerald Kaefar shares software and architectural aspects for cloud computing, along with lessons learned from real-world projects.

Using the Attribute-Driven Design for Automated Predictive Maintenance and Diagnostics of Complex Software Systems
(June 2010) Aldo Dagnino discusses how analyzing trends in changes of key performance indicators (KPIs) can help in the architectural configuration of a large-scale system.

Promoting Data-Centric Architectures
(June 2010) This presentation was given by Michael C. Jaegar, Uwe Hohenstein, Gerald Kaefar, and Ravi K. Madipadaga of Siemens AG at the SATURN 2010 conference held in Minneapolis, MN.

Architecture Model Reconstruction Towards Change Scenario Evaluation
(June 2010) Jens Doppelhamer discusses the novel architecture reconstruction method and tools of the EU-project Q-ImPrESS and how he has applied it on a large-scale ABB software system from the process automation domain.

Agile Architecting: Using Agile Principles to Agilitize the Architecting Process
(June 2010) Amine Chigani of Virginia Tech discusses using Agile in the context of software architecture and the rationale that guided them to follow an Agile approach to architecting.

Designing and Building Large-Scale Systems in an Agile World
(June 2010) In this 2010 presentation, Stevie Borne and Dave Hendricksen explore the pros and cons of using the Agile approach when designing large-scale systems.

Architecture and Agile, Friends or Enemies?
(June 2010) In this 2010 presentation, Ger Schoeber teaches about the applied approach and the lessons that can be learned during the development of a high-tech consumer product.

Managing Software Interfaces of On-Board Automotive Controllers
(June 2010) Anthony Tsakiris of Ford Motor Company describes an effort to commonize the software interfaces among embedded subsystem controllers in Ford Motor Company cars and trucks.

Lessons Learned Adapting an Existing Architecture in a Changing Business Landscape
(June 2010) Arthur Wright describes the order management and routing system of a major Swiss bank and the lessons learned through the making of a number of architectural changes in the organization.

Architecturally Focused Techniques for Managing System Evolution
(June 2010) In this presentation, William Koscho describes methods, tools, and lessons learned for gaining better insight to the customer goals, and more.

Architecture Certification Panel: SATURN 2010
(June 2010) Mark H. Klein of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) explores the state of practice in architecture certification in this SATURN 2010 workshop panel.

The Architect as Change Agent
(June 2010) Linda Rising shares research from social psychology on successful change agents that software architects can use to help influence teams and organizations to adopt good ideas.

Software Architecture and Agility: A Clash of Two Cultures?
(June 2010) In this presentation, Philippe Kruchten discusses how Agile and software architecture can support each other and coexist, where appropriate.

Managing Scale and Agility: Transformational Architecture for the Smart Grid
(June 2010) In this SATURN 2010 keynote speech, Wayne Longcore talks about the use of the Agile Architecture methodology that his team employed to create the Smart Grid.

Architects: Accelerators or Anchors to Organizational Agility?
(June 2010) Jim Highsmith explores the relationship between software architecture, agility, adaptability, and flexibility in this SATURN 2010 keynote speech.

The Illusion of Certainty - Presentation
(May 2010) presentation given at the 7th Annual Acquisition Research SymposiumNaval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, May 2010

Engineering Improvement in Software Assurance: A Landscape Framework (Webinar)
(May 2010) In this 2010 webinar, Carol Woody describes the Assurance Modeling Framework, presents a pilot of the framework, and discusses insights gained from its application.

Keynote: Engineering Safety-and Security-Related Requirements for Software-Intensive Systems (ICSE 2010)
(May 2010) Keynote presentation by Donald Firesmith at SESS’10, as part of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ISCE’2010) in Cape Town, South Africa.

Engineering Safety- and Security-Related Requirements for Software-Intensive Systems (ICSE 2010)
(May 2010) presentation given at the 22nd Annual Systems and Software Technology Conference (SSTC 2010) in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 26-29, 2010.

Engineering Safety-and Security-Related Requirements for Software-Intensive Systems (ICSE 2010)
(May 2010) presentation given at the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering 4 May 2010

QUality Assessment of System Architectures and their Requirements (QUASAR) (SoSECIE 2010)
(May 2010) one hour overview presented as a DoD and NDIA System-of-Systems Engineering Collaborator’s Information Exchange (SoSECIE) Webinar on May 18, 2010

Characterizing Technical Software Performance Within System of Systems Acquisitions: A Step-Wise Methodology
(April 2010) Bryce Meyer and James Wessel provide a 10-step method for planning/assessing software performance, allowing for respective improvement of architecture and test processes.

Measurement That Works -- Really!
(April 2010) James Wessel focuses on software measurement practices that Army acquisition organizations find useful for software issue identification, tracking, and active control of programs.

Why Is R&D in the Cyber and Software Engineering Environment Different? (SSTC 2010)
(April 2010) Terry Roberts addresses why R&D in cyber and software engineering is different, how to research the federal lab landscape for opportunities, and how focus our R&D initiatives.

We Have All Been Here Before: Recurring Patterns Across 12 U.S. Air Force Acquisition Programs
(April 2010) presentation given by William Novak and Ray Williams at the 2010 Systems and Software Technology Conference (SSTC) on April 29, 2010

Status of Ongoing Work in Software TRAs/TRLs
(April 2010) In this 2010 presentation, Michael Bandor and Suzanne Garcia-Miller focus on software issues and shortfalls observed during the DoD Technology Readiness Assessment (TRA) processes.

Agile Development & Software Architecture - Crossing the Great Divide (Webinar)
(April 2010) In this webinar, we will take a journey to each camp to dispel misconceptions and discuss how Agilists and Architects can learn from and benefit each other.

Selecting Middleware Technologies
(April 2010) presentation made by Patricia Oberndorf Thomas Merendino, & Soumya Simanta at the at the Systems and Software Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, April 26, 2010

Open Systems: What’s Old Is New Again
(April 2010) presentation made by Patricia Oberndorf & Carol Sledge at the Systems and Software Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, April 27, 2010

Evolution of a Software Engineer in a SoS System Engineering World
(April 2010) This presentation was given by Patricia Oberndorf and Carol A. Sledge of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) on April 6, 2010 at the IEEE Systems Conference in San Diego, CA.

Organizational Implications of Systems of Systems
(April 2010) The is a tutorial presentation on systems of systems and their organizational implications, including effects on governance and reward structures. Replete with examples.

Overview of Distributed Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
(March 2010) This presentation describes problem-solving algorithms and presents Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (D-COP) algorithms as a "toolbox" for agent-based modeling.

SCAMPI v1.3 Changes (Webinar)
(March 2010) In this 2010 webinar, Will Hayes discusses the major technical changes anticipated in SCAMPI v1.3 and provides insights about present challenges and future improvements to SCAMPI.

Designing Software Architecture to Achieve Business Goals
(March 2010) Designing Software Architecture to Achieve Business Goals: a presentation by Len Bass given to the Academy for Software Engineering Education and Training on March 12, 2010.

CMMI for Services (Webinar)
(February 2010) In this webinar, Eileen Forrester presents an overview on the results and status of CMMI-SVC use to date, opportunities for its users and partners, and more.

What to Expect from CMMI v1.3 (Webinar)
(February 2010) In this webinar, Mike Phillips discusses what users can expect with the latest release of the CMMI Product Suite – CMMI Version 1.3 - in the November 2010.

The Importance of Software Architecture in the Acquisition Process
(February 2010) This presentation argues that the acquisition process must pay attention to software architectural issues during concept formulation, contract preparation, and after being awarded.

Improving and Sustaining Processes for Managing Operational Resiliency CERT Resiliency Management Model (Webinar)
(January 2010) Rich Caralli describes how an organization can use the CERT Resiliency Management Model (CERT RMM) to establish its current level of capability in managing resiliency, set forward-looking resiliency goals and targets, and to develop plans to close identified gaps.

SoS Architecture Evaluation and Quality Attribute Specification (Webinar)
(January 2010) Mike Gagliardi shares a SoS architecture definition and evaluation approach that involves stakeholders in augmenting end-to-end mission threads with quality attribute considerations.

The Impact of Scale (Webinar)
(December 2009) This talk shares the results of a study on ULS systems, documented in the book Ultra-Large-Scale Systems: The Software Challenge of the Future, as well as recent work in that area.

How Unstated Customer Needs May Drive Innovation (Webinar)
(December 2009) Robert W. Stoddard discusses SEI SEMA's efforts on Voice-of-the-Customer methods, which are shown to be effective at identifying unstated customer needs (Dec. 2009).

Cloud Computing by Grace Lewis (Webinar)
(November 2009) Grace Lewis gives an introductory-level presentation on cloud computing. Lewis discusses the different types of cloud computing environments and the barriers for its adoption.

How to Use the People CMM to Create Effective Managers (Webinar)
(November 2009) This presentation focuses on teaching managers how they can use maturity level 2 practices of the P-CMM to build workforce capacity in an organization.

Rethinking Risk Management Tutorial
(October 2009) Presented at the NDIA Systems Engineering Conference 2009 by Audrey Dorofee and Christopher Alberts.

Love and Marriage: Why CMMI and Agile Need Each Other (Webinar)
(October 2009) In this 2009 webinar, Hillel Glazer discusses how Agile and CMMI complete each others' capabilities and can lead to fast, affordable, visible, and long-term benefits.

Exploring the Architecture of Ultra-Large-Scale Systems
(October 2009) Exploring the Architecture of Ultra-Large-Scale Systems presentation given by SEI staffer Len Bass

The Survivability Analysis Framework (Webinar)
(October 2009) In this October 20009 webinar, Robert J. Ellison and Carol Woody (SEI) present the Survivability Analysis Framework.

How to Effectively Evaluate Software Architecture and Identify Risks (Webinar)
(September 2009) In this 2009 webinar, Felix Bachmann discusses how using the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) can help identify risks early in a product’s life cycle.

CMMI Impact: August 2009
(August 2009) This presentation, prepared for the Joint Advisory Committee Executive Group (JAC EG), provides an overview of the impact of CMMI, as of August 31, 2009.

Secure Coding (Webinar)
(August 2009) Robert Seacord discusses the work of the Secure Coding Initiative’s (SCI) to develop secure coding standards for commonly used programming languages such as C, C++, and Java.

Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Systems (CBSE 2009)
(June 2009) keynote presentation given at 12th International Symposium on Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE 2009), June 24-26, 2009, East Stroudsburg University, Pennsylvania

A Practical Approach for Managing Risk (Webinar)
(June 2009) This 2009 SEI presentation provides an overview of the Mosaic approach – a suite of methods that can be used to manage risk across the life cycle and supply chain.

CMMI Level 2 for Practitioners: A Focused Course for Your Level 2 Efforts (Webinar)
(May 2009) This course takes an in-depth look at CMMI maturity level 2, specifically the processes that must be put in place in order for organizations to achieve the maturity level rating.

SQUARE Up Your Security Requirements Engineering with SQUARE (Webinar)
(May 2009) In this 2009 Software Engineering Institute (SEI) webinar, Nancy Mead provides an overview of CERT’s SQUARE process, and discusses current activities and plans.

Experience with the Architecture Improvement Workshop (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) Lawrence G. Jones and Rick Kazman describe the Architecture Improvement Workshop (AIW) and discuss how it was used to support the evolution of the Space Surveillance Network Analysis Model (SSNAM). System.

How Acquisition Practice Can Impede SOA Governance (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) Lloyd Brodsky identifies what needs to be included in a model contract for the success of SOA governance and discusses the consequences if these key factors are excluded.

Bottom-Up Software Product Line Design A Case Study Emphasizing the Need for Stakeholder Commitment (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) This 2009 presentation describes a software product line architecture (PLA) intended to increase reuse while ensuring faster time to market for new applications within the robotics domain.

Architectural Measurements & Metrics at All Scales (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) Joseph Starwood describes the use of definitions, models, and selection criteria for establishing a methodology that communicates the value of IT at all levels in an organization.

Architecting the Organization (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) Ken Kunkel of IBM discusses the challenge of absorbing technology into an organization, and offers insight on a number of different approaches that organizations have taken.

Architecting for Highly Available, Scalable, and Reliable Mission-Critical Applications (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) Diego Dagum offers effective guidance for dealing with mission-critical attributes – such as scalability, fault-tolerance, resiliency, and performance— in an organization.

Software Architecture Beyond Blueprints (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) In this 2009 presentation, I. Eldo of Philips Healthcare discusses why a well-aligned Software Architecture Organizational Entity (SAOE) is needed in order to create a good architecture.

Architecture Governance and Rules Enforcement Using AOP and SonarJ—A Case Study (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) In this SATURN 2009 presentation, Srini Penchikala talks about the significance of enforcing architecture standards and how to implement policy enforcement in software development projects.

The Impact of Conducting ATAM Evaluations on Army Programs (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) Christopher Alberts and Audrey Dorofee introduce SEI MOSAIC, a structured decision-making approach that can be used to help assure mission success in complex settings.

Career Track for Architects in IT Organizations (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) presentation given at SATURN 2009, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on May 4-7, 2009

Bridging Systems and Software Architecture
(May 2009) This presentation presents Raytheon’s findings in exploring the relationship between systems architecture and software architecture, identifying the key cost and risk drivers, as well as providing recommendations for improving the capability to transition, and a discussion on the use of architecture methodologies in analyzing the problem.

Dealing with Quality Attribute Requirements as the Hero, Not the Witch (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) presentation given at SATURN 2009, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on May 4-7, 2009

The Role and Development of an Enterprise Architect: A Devil's Advocate’s Perspective (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) presentation given at SATURN 2009, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on May 4-7, 2009

How to Conduct a Contextually-Driven Systems Architecture Review (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) presentation given at SATURN 2009, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on May 4-7, 2009

Improving the Definition of Quality Attribute Scenarios by Using Requirements Patterns (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) presentation given at SATURN 2009, which was held in Pittsburgh, PA in May 2009

Limits to the Use of the Zachman Framework in Developing and Evolving Architectures for Complex Systems of Systems (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) presentation given at SATURN 2009, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on May 4-7, 2009

Leveraging ADD for Objective Technology Evaluation and Decision Analysis (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) presentation given at SATURN 2009, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on May 4-7, 2009

A Framework for Making Architectural Decisions in a Business Context (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) presentation given at SATURN 2009, which was held in Pittsburgh, PA in May 2009

Integrating Usability Supporting Architectural Patterns in a Product Line System's Architecture (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) presentation given at SATURN 2009, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on May 4-7, 2009

A Simple and Flexible Specification for an Enterprise Architecture Practice (SATURN 2009)
(May 2009) David Cuyler describes a simple and flexible enterprise architecture practiced by Sandia National Laboratories that is designed to mitigate the tendency towards “too much information" in this SATURN 2009 workshop.

A Practical Approach for Building CMMI Process Performance Models (Webinar)
(April 2009) This 2009 webinar targets individuals who will be developing and using process performance models as part of an overall CMMI High Maturity improvement framework.

A Technical Overview of Risk and Opportunity Management
(April 2009) A technical overview of systemic risk and opportunity management for distributed environments.

MFESA One-Day Tutorial SSTC 2009
(April 2009) Donald Firesmith of the SEI presented a one-day tutorial in the Method Framework for Engineering Systems Architectures (MFESA) at the 2009 SSTC in April 2009.

SMART: Analyzing the Feasibility of Migrating Legacy Systems to SOA Environments (Webinar)
(April 2009) Grace Lewis discusses how the Service Migration and Reuse Technique (SMART) can be used to help organizations to make decisions about reusing legacy systems within a SOA environment.

Assurance Cases for Design Analysis of Complex System of Systems Software
(April 2009) This presentation by Stephen Blanchette of the SEI was made at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Infotech@Aerospace Conference in April 2009.

The Age of the Smart Grid is Here (Webinar)
(March 2009) This 2009 webinar marks the formal launching of a framework developed by CMU and the SEI which provides utilities with a roadmap through their smart grid transformation.

Acquisition Process Improvement in Stealth Mode: is It IDEAL?
(March 2009) This presentation was given by Joe Wickless of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in March 2010 at SEPG North America 2009, held in San Jose, CA.

Tutorial: The Method-Framework for Engineering System Architectures (MFESA)
(March 2009) Tutorial: The Method-Framework for Engineering System Architectures (MFESA). Delivered by Donald Firesmith at the IEEE International Systems Conference, March 23-26, 2009.

An Innovative Requirements Solution: Combining Six Sigma KJ Language Data Analysis With Automated Content Analysis
(March 2009) This March 2009 presentation, An Innovative Requirements Solution, was presented by Ira Monarch, Dennis Goldenson, and Robert W. Stoddard at SEPG North America 2009.

Method Framework for Engineering System Architecture
(March 2009) This brief tutorial of the Method Framework for Engineering System Architecture was delivered in March 2009 at the IEEE International Systems Conference by Donald Firesmith.

New Directions in Risk: A Success-Oriented Approach (2009)
(March 2009) presented in San Jose, California, at the 21st Annual SEPG North America 2009 conference March 23-26, 2009

March 2009 CMMI Performance Results
(March 2009) Presented: March 2009

CMMI v1.2 and Beyond (Webinar)
(February 2009) In this 2009 webinar, Michael D. Konrad and Rusty Young describe the continued updates of CMMI to better address key elements such as acquisition and services.

The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures (Webinar)
(February 2009) In this 2009 webinar, Donald Firesmith introduces the Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures (MFESA), a methodology based on the concept of situational method engineering.

Overview of a Proactive Software Product Line Acquisition Approach
(February 2009) presented at the SEI Army Software Product Line Workshop, February 12, 2009

Approach to Software Product Line Acquisition Planning, An
(February 2009) presented at the SEI Army Software Product Line Workshop, February 12, 2009

Diamond Software Product Family Product Centered Organization (PCO)
(February 2009) Presented: February 2009

Army Software Product Line Workshop
(February 2009) This page contains the slides from the “Army Software Product Line Workshop,” which was hosted by Linda M. Northrop of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in February 2009.

Army Software Product Line Workshop SPL Overview
(February 2009) This page contains the slides from the “Army Software Product Line Workshop,” which was hosted by Linda M. Northrop of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in February 2009.

CMMI Version 1.3 Product Suite (Webinar)
(February 2009) In this 2009 webinar, Michael D. Konrad and Rusty Young discuss CMMI Version 1.3 and the changes that it will bring to the entire CMMI Product Suite.

Recursion and Iteration of CMMI Project Management Practices (Webinar)
(February 2009) In this 2009 webinar, Fred Schenker of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) examines project management practices from the perspective of both recursion and iteration.

Exploring Enterprise, System of Systems, and System and Software Architectures (Webinar)
(January 2009) In this 2009 webinar, Paul C. Clements presents findings from a U.S. Army workshop on architecture that was held at the SEI in September 2008.

Process Improvement at the Edges (Webinar)
(December 2008) In this 2008 webinar, SuZ Garcia discusses approaching CMMI and other model-based improvements by applying solutions from very small organizations to large multi-organizations.

Identifying Program Risks (Webinar)
(December 2008) In this 2008 webinar, Ray C. Williams looks at group processes at the work group level (development team, IPT, small project) for identifying and documenting risk.

The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures (MFESA)
(December 2008) A tutorial on the Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures (MFESA) delivered at ICSSEA 2008 on December 10, 2008.

Recursion in the CMMI Project Management Process Areas (Webinar)
(November 2008) November 20, 2008 presentation by Fred Schenker on Recursion in the CMMI Project Management Process Areas; explores recursion and iteration and their use in CMMI.

Process Improvement and CMMI: Developing Complex Systems Using CCMI to Achieve Effective Systems and Software Engineering Integration
(November 2008) Presentation by Kenneth Nidiffer, Director of Strategic Plans for Government Programs (SEI), from the 8th Annual CMMI Technology Conference and User Group, November 2008.

Using the Team Software Process to Improve Performance (Webinar)
(November 2008) In this 2008 webinar, Timothy A. Chick explains the Team Software Process (TSP) and how it can relate to CMMI, showing quantitative results demonstrated through TSP use.

CMMI-Agile (Webinar)
(November 2008) In this 2008 webinar, Michael D. Konrad talks about how Agile methods and CMMI can be used to dramatically improve business performance when properly used together.

The Last Phase of Process Change - Deployment
(November 2008) A presentation made by Rick Barbour and Barbara Tyson at the 8th Annual CMMI Technology and Users Conference in November 2008. The Last Phase of Process Change - Deployment

SEPG Conference Series Overview (Webinar)
(November 2008) In this 2008 SEI webinar, Caroline Graettinger, SEPG Conference Chair, will answer questions about this conference series hosted by the Software Engineering Institute.

CMMI for Services
(October 2008) In this 2008 webinar, Eileen Forrester discusses CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC), which extends the coverage of the CMI from development and acquisition into service delivery.

How Future Trends in Systems and Software Engineering Bode Well for Enabling Improved Acquisition and Performance of Defense Systems
(October 2008) Kenneth Nidiffer delivered this presentation at the 11th Annual Systems Engineering Conference in October 2008.

Principles in a DoD Acquisition Principles in a DoD Acquisition
(October 2008) Presented: October 2008

The Measurement and Analysis Infrastructure Diagnostic, Creating a Foundation for Effective Measurement and Analysis (Webinar)
(October 2008) This 2008 webinar describes the current status of an effort to develop MAID, a criteria-based approach for evaluating an organization’s measurement and analysis infrastructure.

CMMI on the Web (Webinar)
(September 2008) This presentation provides a high-level overview of CMMI and its related products on the SEI website. It was presented in an SEI Webinar on Thursday September 25, 2008.

Service-Oriented Product Lines: Towards a Development Process and Feature Management Model for Web Services
(September 2008) presented at SOAPL 2008: Service-Oriented Architectures and Software Product Lines - Putting Both Together, Limerick, Ireland, September 8-12, 2008

CERT Resiliency Engineering Framework (Webinar)
(September 2008) Richard A. Caralli gives a demonstration of the CERT Resiliency Engineering Framework, a model that organizations can use to systematically identify their current level of security effectiveness.

Renewing the Product Line Vision
(September 2008) Renewing the Product Line Vision was presented by Brady Campbell (SEI) at the 12th International Software Product Line Conference in September 2008.

Combining Product Line Engineering and Service Oriented Architecture in Health Care Infrastructure Systems: Experience Report
(September 2008) This 2008 presentation – “Combining Product Line Engineering and Service Oriented Architecture in Health Care Infrastructure” – was delivered by Jörg Bartholdt, Bernd Franke, C. Schwanninger, and Michael Stal of Siemens AG.

Semantic Web Services-based Reasoning in the Design of Software Product Lines
(September 2008) presented at the 12th International Software Product Line Conference, 2008, in Limerick, Ireland, September 8-12, 2008

Imaging Services on the Grid as a Product Line : Requirements and Architecture
(September 2008) presented at SOAPL 2008: Service-Oriented Architectures and Software Product Lines - Putting Both Together, Limerick, Ireland, September 8-12, 2008

Workshop on Service- Oriented Architectures and Software Product Lines - Putting Both Together (SOAPL 2008)
(September 2008) presented at SOAPL 2008: Service-Oriented Architectures and Software Product Lines - Putting Both Together, Limerick, Ireland, September 8-12, 2008

Feature Based Design of Web Service Transaction Compensations
(September 2008) presented at SOAPL 2008: Service-Oriented Architectures and Software Product Lines - Putting Both Together, Limerick, Ireland, September 8-12, 2008

Business Process Lines to Develop Service-Oriented Architectures through the Software Product Lines paradigm
(September 2008) This presentation on business process lines to service-oriented architecture through the software product lines paradigm was delivered by five members of the University of Bari in 2008.

September 2008 CMMI Performance Results
(September 2008) Presented: September 2008

Overview of the Master of Science in Information Technology, Software Engineering Management (Webinar)
(August 2008) This webinar by Philip Miller provides an overview of Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Science in Information Technology, Software Engineering Management (MSIT-SEM) program.

A Jumpstart Method for Business Goals and Project Objectives Supporting CMMI High Maturity (Webinar)
(August 2008) Robert W. Stoddard discusses an approach to jumpstart a business goal and objective activity in order to support process performance modeling in an organization.

Service-Oriented Architecture (Webinar)
(August 2008) In this 2008 presentation, Grace Lewis provides an overview of SOA and explains the implications that SOA adoption has on the processes used to develop service-oriented systems.

CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC) Overview for Workshop
(August 2008) Presented in August 2008

Workforce Issues of the 21st Century, The People CMM to the Rescue (Webinar)
(July 2008) In this 2008 presentation, Palma Buttles-Valdez discusses workforce issues that organizations are currently experiencing and how these issues can affect performance and retention.

Process Improvement in Multi-Model Environments (PrIME) (Webinar)
(July 2008) Patrick Kirwan and Jeannine Siviy present currently available strategic and tactical methods for multui-model improvement in this July 2008 SEI presentation.

Software Product Line Essentials
(July 2008) Presented: July 2008

Beyond IPPD: Distributed Collaboration in a Systems-of-Systems (SoS) Context
(June 2008) Urs Andelfinger and Suzanne Garcia-Miller look at the possible implications of issues stemming from complex system of systems for IPPD content in CMMI V. 1.2 (2008 presentation).

Future Trends in Systems and Software Engineering
(June 2008) presentation from the Second Annual Systems Engineering Conference of the National Reconnaissance Office on June 4, 2008

Hard Questions for Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments Workshop: Breakout Session -- Strategy Rounds 1 and 2
(May 2008) "Breakout Session -- Strategy Rounds 1 and 2" presentation from the Hard Questions for Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments Workshop on May 8, 2008

Hard Questions for Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments Workshop: Breakout Session -- Architecture
(May 2008) "Breakout Session -- Architecture" presentation from the Hard Questions for Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments Workshop on May 8, 2008

Hard Questions for Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments Workshop: Breakout Session -- Implementation Issues
(May 2008) "Breakout Session Output -- Implementation Issues" presentation from the Hard Questions for Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments Workshop on May 8, 2008

Hard Questions for Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments Workshop: Breakout Session -- Technology Relationships
(May 2008) "Breakout Session -- Technology Relationships" presentation from the Hard Questions for Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments Workshop on May 8, 2008

SEI Approach to Harmonization
(May 2008) summary of the SEI approach of harmonizing multiple models, presented at the Hard Questions for Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments Workshop on May 8, 2008

Process Improvement in a Multimodel Environment: Past Present and Future
(May 2008) case study presented at the Hard Questions for Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments Workshop on May 8, 2008

Hard Questions for Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments Workshop: Opening Remarks
(May 2008) opening remarks from the Hard Questions for Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments Workshop on May 8, 2008

On Software Architecture, Agility, Cost and Value
(May 2008) SATURN 2008 keynote by Philippe Kruchten, Professor of Software Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Defining Composite Critical Scenarios for the Development of Large-Scale System Architecture Using an SEI ADD-Based Framework
(May 2008) This presentation discusses how SEI Attribute-Driven Design (ADD) was used as a framework to help develop the software architecture of a large-scale control system in a multinational organization.

Current SEI SAT Initiative Technology Investigations
(May 2008) Presentation given at SATURN 2008, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on April 28-May 1, 2008.

SATURN Session Summary: Use of the SEI ATAM in Practice
(May 2008) This presentation reviews the discussion that took place during Session 2: Architecture Evaluation: Experiences in Using the SEI ATAM, that was led by Felix Bachmann on April 30, 2008.

Evaluating Distributed Systems Architectures for Fault-Tolerant Applications (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) Presentation for the 2008 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Lessons Learned from Deployment and Production Use of Architects’ Workbench - An Architectural Thinking and Modeling Tool
(April 2008) D. Kimelman presents key Architect’s Workbench (AWB) innovations and discusses how their design was motivated by insights into architectural work and feedback from IT architects.

Challenges and Observations of Applying the SEI ATAM to a Software Testing Automation Solution
(April 2008) This SATURN 2008 presentation discusses the challenges of applying the SEI Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) to a software testing automation solution.

Architecture Empowerment - A Quality Attribute of Software Architecture Realms to Build Empowered Organizations
(April 2008) I. Eldo of Philips Healthcare discusses several concepts that organizations can use to empower their architecture, explaining why adopting these concepts will make them more successful.

Identifying and Documenting Primary Concerns in Industrial Software Systems (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) Presentation for the 2008 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Architecture Empowerment (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) I. Eldo of Philips Healthcare discusses several concepts that organizations can use to empower their architecture, explaining why adopting these concepts will make them more successful.

Applying SEI Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) as Part of Formal Software Architecture Review (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) This SATURN 2008 presentation provides ideas on how to apply the SEI Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) within the context of a formal CDR of a large-scale complex software system.

Architecture Curve, New Formatted SEI ATAM Report Shaped in a Single Graph (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) Presentation for the 2008 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Inexpensive ATAM-Peer Review Detects and Fixes Architecture Problems Early (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) H. Forstrom of the ITT Corporation introduces a procedure that his company has developed for adapting the SEI Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) reviews into incremental peer reviews.

SATURN 2008 Architecture Evaluation: Experiences in Using SEI's ATAM (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) This SATURN 2008 presentation discusses the challenges of applying the SEI Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) to a software testing automation solution.

Realizing the Business Value of IT: An Approach for Architecture Evaluation (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) Opal Perry of Wells Fargo & Company discusses efforts to extend aspects of SEI architectural evaluation methods within a division of his company that deployed a production system using SOA.

Putting Software Architecture in Its Place - Fitting Software Architecture into the Enterprise Technology Landscape
(April 2008) Presented: April 2008

Current SAT Work in Architecture Evolution (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) Presentation for the 2008 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Reconstructing the Architecture Model for a Sustainable Software System (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) Presentation for the 2008 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Defining Composite Critical Scenarios for the Development of Large Scale System Architecture Using an SEI'sADD- based Framework (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) Presentation for the 2008 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

On Software Architecture, Agile Development, Value and Cost (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) Presentation for the 2008 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Welcome Presentation (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) Software architects from around the world attended the Fourth Annual SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop in May 2008

Software Architecture in an Integrated Engineering Methodology
(April 2008) Presentation given at SATURN 2008, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on April 28-May 1, 2008.

Reducing Uncertainty In Architecture Plans
(April 2008) Presented: April 2008

Architecture From a Manager’s Perspective
(April 2008) presented at SATURN 2008, April-May 2008

Architecture from a Manager’s Perspective (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) presented at SATURN 2008, April-May 2008

Software Architecture Technology Initiative (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) presented at SATURN 2008, April-May 2008

Software Architecture Technology Initiative, SATURN 2008
(April 2008) presentation given at SATURN 2008, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on April 28-May 1, 2008.

Debugging Software Architectures (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) Presentation given at SATURN 2008, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on April 28-May 1, 2008.

Architects’ Workbench ("AWB") - A Tool for Architectural Thinking and Modeling (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) This presentation on the Architects’ Workbench (AWB) – a tool for architectural thinking and modeling – was given at SATURN 2008, held in Pittsburgh, PA on April 28–May 1, 2008.

Some Perspectives in Teaching Software Architecture (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) Presentation given at SATURN 2008, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on April 28-May 1, 2008.

Welcome to the Fourth SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network Workshop
(April 2008) welcome presentation given at SATURN 2008, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on April 28-May 1, 2008.

Putting Software Architecture in its Place (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) keynote presentation given at SATURN 2008, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on April 28-May 1, 2008.

On ADLs and Tool Support for Documenting View-Based Architectural Descriptions (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) presentation given at SATURN 2008, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on April 28-May 1, 2008.

Quality Attributes and Requirement Traceability (SATURN 2008)
(April 2008) Presentation given at SATURN 2008, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA on April 28-May 1, 2008.

Identifying Acquisition Patterns of Failure Using System Archetypes
(April 2008) This presentation was given by Linda Levine and Bill Novak of the SEI’s Acquisition Support Program at the IEEE Systems Conference in April 2008.

Measurement and Analysis for the Acquirer
(March 2008) This presentation provides an overview of techniques used to develop an acquirer measurement system, and ways to communicate acquired measurements to various stakeholders.

A Holistic Approach to Process Improvement Using the People CMM and the CMMI-DEV: Technology, Process, People, and Culture, the Holistic Quadripartite
(March 2008) This presentation examines the role that organization culture plays in the "process triangle" of people, process, and technology.

Tug the CFO's Purse String for a CMMI Program
(March 2008) This presentation provides information on how to convince CFOs and other key decision makers of the financial reasoning for implementing CMMI.

SCAMPI Lead Appraiser Body of Knowledge Overview
(March 2008) This presentation gives an overview of the SCAMPI Lead Appraiser Body of Knowledge, including its objectives, development approach, planned uses, and its architecture and content.

How do I Implement Process Change in my Four-Generational Workforce?
(March 2008) This presentation examines the challenges faced in implementing process improvement techniques in a multi-generational workplace.

Unintended Consequences of Measurement: Causes and Cures
(March 2008) This presentation contains a great deal of analysis about the problems with measurement techniques and about how to prevent those problems in the future.

Measuring Institutionalization
(March 2008) This presentation provides samples of many different types of tools that can be used to measure the rate of process improvement adoption in various organizations.

Do's and Don'ts of Process Improvement
(March 2008) Advice on convincing various audiences of the benefits of CMMI-based process improvement.

Creating an Innovation Process and Culture
(March 2008) An overview of how best to create an innovation process and culture, using various methods.

How CMMI Supports Efficient Implementation of Functional Safety
(March 2008) This presentation focuses on the organizational aspects, as well as some basic concepts, of a high-level mapping of functional safety to CMMI.

Can Six Sigma and CMMI Get Along?
(March 2008) A case study from Intel about the use of CMMI and Six Sigma.

Lessons Learned from a Joint CMMI and SSE-CMM Class B SCAMPI Appraisal
(March 2008) This presentation contains information about a joint CMMI and SSE-CMM SCAMPI appraisal.

Gaining CMMI Success in the US Private Sector
(March 2008) This 2008 presentation by Mark and Barbara Hilden discusses how to make the CMMI (and other formal process models) more appealing to private sector businesses.

Best Practices in Teaching CMMI
(March 2008) A compilation of ideas to use when teaching CMMI courses.

Choosing How to Implement CMMI
(March 2008) This presentation outlines the decisions to be made, and the options available, in planning a CMMI-compliant project.

CMMI Crash Course: What the SEI Won't Teach You
(March 2008) An engaging (and sometimes irreverent) view of CMMI, designed for brand-new CMMI users.

CMMI Acquisition Model: Driving Process Improvement
(March 2008) A report on the use of CMMI for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ) at General Motors.

Notes from the Blogosphere
(March 2008) A report on Jeff's experience with his blog, Ask the CMMI Appraiser.

The First CMMI-based Appraisal in an Agile Environment at Siemens AG
(March 2008) SEI presentation showing the results and experiences from the first CMMI-based appraisal in an Agile environment. From Siemens AG in Munich, Germany (March 2008).

Twelve Proven Principles for Process Improvement and Organizational Success
(March 2008) This 2008 presentation by Dr. Richard Bechtold of Abridge Technology outlines twelve proven principles for process improvement and organizational success.

Mistakes, Obstacles, and Conflicts in using CMMI for Process Improvement
(March 2008) This presentation provides information about mistakes in CMMI implementation, as well as some ways to avoid these mistakes.

Best of Everything: ITIL, CMMI, and Lean Six Sigma
(March 2008) This 2008 presentation discusses if it makes sense to adopt Lean and Six Sigma when developers are already working with CMMI, if CMMI level 5 processes align with ITIL, and more.

A Practitioner View of CMMI Process Performance Models
(March 2008) This presentation is a half-day tutorial presented at North America SEPG.

Tools Supporting CMMI High Maturity for Small Organizations 2008
(March 2008) Presented in September 2008 by Robert Stoddard.

High Maturity Measurement Workshop
(March 2008) Presented by Dennis Goldenson and Bob Stoddard in March 2008.

Interpreting CMMI High Maturity for Small Organizations 2008
(March 2008) Presented in September 2008 by Robert Stoddard.

Using the Mission Diagnostic: Lessons Learned (2008)
(March 2008) presented at SEPG 2008, March 17-20, 2008 Tampa, Florida

The Method-Framework for Engineering Systems Architectures (MFESA)
(March 2008) Presented by Don Firesmith on March 12, 2008

SMART Ultra-Large-Scale Systems Forum: Scale Changes Everything
(March 2008) presentations made on March 6, 2008, as part of the forum, "Scale Changes Everything," on ultra-large-scale (ULS) systems

Panel: Promising Research Areas
(March 2008) SMART Event, March 6, 2008

Issues of Scale: A Community Perspective
(March 2008) This 2008 presentation by Daniel J. Paulish (SEI) discusses issues regarding large-scale systems and the challenges industry faces with these systems.

Computational Emergence Research Area
(March 2008) Presentation by Richard P Gabriel, IBM Resear

SMART ULSS Forum: Electricity
(March 2008) Presentation by Patricia Hoffman of the U.S. Department of Energy on the U.S. electrical grid (March 2008).

System of Systems Security
(March 2008) Bob Kent of the System of System Security (SOSSEC) Integration Initiative discusses his organization and the role it plays in America’s national defense and security.

Enabling Future Technology Ultra-Large-Scale Systems in the Army
(March 2008) presentation made at the SMART Ultra-Large-Scale System Forum, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, 2008

Ultra-Large-Scale-Systems Development Challenges at Siemens
(March 2008) presentation made at the 2008 SMART Ultra-Large-Scale System Forum, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, 2008

Adaptive System Infrastructure for Ultra-Large-Scale Systems
(March 2008) presentation made at the 2008 SMART Ultra-Large-Scale System Forum, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, 2008

ULS Systems Research Roadmap 2008
(March 2008) presentation made at the 2008 SMART Ultra-Large-Scale System Forum, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, 2008

Architecture for Ultra-Large- Scale (ULS) Systems
(March 2008) In this March 2008 presentation, Mark H. Klein of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) discusses the architecture of ultra-large-scale (ULS) systems.

Ultra-Large-Scale Systems: Scale Changes Everything
(March 2008) presentation made at the 2008 SMART Ultra-Large-Scale System Forum, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, 2008

Applied Computational Mechanism Design
(March 2008) presentation made at the 2008 SMART Ultra-Large-Scale System Forum, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, 2008

Tutorial: If You're Living the "High Life," You're Living the Informative Material
(March 2008) SEPG 2008 presentation, March 2008.

March 2008 CMMI Performance Results
(March 2008) March 2008

Product Line Systems Program Talk SEPG 2008
(March 2008) SEPG 2008 presentation, March 2008

SOA Research Agenda
(January 2008) This 2008 presentation by Grace Lewis details the taxonomy of the SEI’s research agenda on the topics critical to success with SOA adoption.

Prediction-Enabled Component Technology Presentation
(January 2008) Software Engineering Institute (SEI) presentation on Prediction Enabled Component Technology, made January 2008.

agileCMMI: Process Innovation at the Speed of Life
(January 2008) This presentation provides a look at how Agile and CMMI can be used together most effectively.

Survival in a Systems of Systems World
(December 2007) Presented: June 2007

Meeting the Challenges of Ultra-Large-Scale Distributed Real-time & Embedded Systems with QoS-enabled Middleware & Model-Driven Engineering
(December 2007) Presented: December 10, 2007, Middleware 2007

Understanding CMMI Measurement Capabilities & Impact on Performance: Results from the 2007 SEI State of the Measurement Practice Survey
(November 2007) CMMI Technology Conference, November 14, 2007

Systems Engineering Complexity & Project Management
(November 2007) presented at the CMMI Technology Conference, November 2007

If You're Living the "High Life," You're Living the Informative Material
(October 2007) This presentation provides information on how the informative material within the CMMI-DEV model relates to high maturity implementations of CMMI-DEV in various organizations.

Model-Driven Construction of Certified Binaries
(October 2007) Sagar Chaki and others describe in this presentation an implementation of the approach that targets the Pin component technology, and presents experimental results on a collection of benchmarks.

Applying Software Architecture
(October 2007) presented at the Software in Acquisition Workshop, October 2007

A Taxonomy of Variability in Web Service Flows
(September 2007) presented at Service Oriented Architectures and Product Lines - What is the Connection? (SOAPL - 07), September 10, 2007, Kyoto, Japan

Comparison of Service and Software Product Family Modeling
(September 2007) Similarities and differences in service oriented computing modeling and software product family modeling.

Identifying and Specifying Reusable Services of Service Centric Systems through Product Line Technology
(September 2007) Presentation by Jaejoon Lee (Fraunhofer Institut Experimentelles Software Engineering) on identifying and specifying reusable services for service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Product Lines that supply other Product Lines: A Service-Oriented Approach
(September 2007) presented at Service Oriented Architectures and Product Lines - What is the Connection? (SOAPL - 07), September 10, 2007, Kyoto

September 2007 CMMI Performance Results
(September 2007) A presentation update by the CMMI Cloud Team from September 2007, which shows the process maturity profile results for CMMI for mid-year 2007.

Virtua Health
(August 2007) John Bloomer provides an overview of his Virtua Health – an ultra-large scale organization – and discusses the challenges that the company must overcome to be successful.

SEI Software Architecture Workshop for Educators
(August 2007) presented as part of the SEI Software Architecture Workshop for Educators, August 2007

ArchE – An Architecture Design Assistant
(August 2007) presented as part of the SEI Software Architecture Workshop for Educators, August 2007

ArchE – An Architecture Design Assistant
(August 2007) The Fourth SEI Software Architecture Workshop for Educators was held at the Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh, PA on July 31- August 2, 2007.

SEI Software Architecture Workshop for Educators (Presentation)
(August 2007) The Fourth SEI Software Architecture Workshop for Educators was held at the Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh, PA on July 31- August 2, 2007.

Quicker and Better Quality Improvement Business Cases with Bayesian Belief Networks and Six Sigma
(June 2007) This 2007 presentation was delivered by Ben Linders and Robert W. Stoddard of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) as part of E-SEPG 2007.

Software Design-for-Six Sigma (SDFSS) and SEI Technologies Meet!
(June 2007) Presented: June 2007

Exactly What are Process Performance Models in the CMMI?
(June 2007) Presented: June 2007

ULS Systems Research Roadmap
(June 2007) Presented: June 2007

Engineering Safety- and Security-Related Requirement for Software-Intensive Systems
(May 2007) Full day tutorial presented in May 2007

Meeting the Challenges of Ultra-Large-Scale Distributed Real-time & Embedded (DRE) Systems
(May 2007) Presented: Wednesday, May 30, 2007, ISORC, Santorini, Greece

Meeting the Challenges of Ultra-Large-Scale Distributed Real-time & Embedded (DRE) Systems
(May 2007) Presented: Wednesday, May 30, 2007, WPDRTS, Long Beach, CA

presentation by Paul Clements at SATURN 2007, May 2007
(May 2007) This May 2007 presentation by Paul Clements (SEI) discusses how to improve software architecture competence through the usage of competency models and other research.

An Architecture Journey
(May 2007) In this SATURN 2007 keynote presentation, Jeromy Carrière discusses how several varied experiences – from telecommunications, academia, dot com, etc. – have shaped the field of software architecture.

SEI Architecture Techniques complementary to the RUP (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

The Negative Impacts of Ignoring Stakeholder Quality Attributes: Joint Fire Support (FS) Command and Control (C2) Case Study (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Automated Requirements Processing Overview (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Working Session: Software Architecture Competence
(May 2007) presentation made by Paul Clements at the SATURN 2007 Working Session "Architecture Competence," May 15, 2007

Negative Impacts of Ignoring Stakeholder Quality Attributes
(May 2007) Presented: May 2007

Software Architecture Technology Initiative
(May 2007) presentation made by Mark Klein at the Third Annual SATURN Workshop, May 2007

SEI Architecture Techniques Complementary to the RUP
(May 2007) presentation made by Stuart Kerrigan and Richard van Schelven at the Third Annual SATURN Workshop, May 2007

Automated Requirements Processing Overview
(May 2007) presentation made at the 2007 SATURN Workshop

Common ATAM Errors
(May 2007) Presented: May 2007

Light-Weight Architecture Trade Off Process Based on ATAM, A
(May 2007) Jon S. Edmond of NCS discusses the transformation of SEI's ATAM into a process they call ATO Lite, a front-end tool that assists architects with the development of robust, focused architecture in a time- and cost-effective manner.

Architecting Security In
(May 2007) Presented: May 2007

Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture
(May 2007) Presented: May 2007

Neglected Aspects of Software Architecture (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Improving Software Architecture Competence (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

System of Systems Architecture Evaluation with Concurrent Development (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

A Product Line Architecture for Army Aviation Diagnostics and Maintenance: Views and Evolution (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Technology Evolution – Impact on Architecture of a Complex Medical Product (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Introducing Scenario-Based Architecture Reviews (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh, PA

A Case Study in applying Architecture Evaluation Methods (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Common ATAM Errors (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

A Light-Weight Architecture Trade Off Process Based on ATAM A Panel Presentation: Sharing Experiences with ATAM (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Jon S. Edmond of NCS discusses the transformation of SEI's ATAM into a process they call ATO Lite, a front-end tool that assists architects with the development of robust, focused architecture in a time- and cost-effective manner.

Welcome to SATURN 2007 the Third SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network Workshop (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Software Architecture Technology Initiative (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Integrated City Operation Center: An Architecture Case Study with ADD & Data Flow Analysis (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

How the QAW Helped our Enterprise Architecture Effort (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Presentation for the 2007 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh

Architecting Security In (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) In this SATURN 2007 presentation, Jon R. Ramsey of SecureWorks discusses how the architecture of a system – like other nonfunctional requirements— influences the security of a system.

Tools for Making Better Architecture Decisions (SATURN 2007)
(May 2007) Keynote address for the Saturn 2007 workshop held in Pittsburgh

Introducing Scenario-based Architecture Reviews
(May 2007) presentation made at the 2007 SATURN Workshop

Welcome to SATURN 2007
(May 2007) presentation from the Third SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network Workshop May 14-16, 2007, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

SEMA Course Overview
(May 2007) Presented: May 2007

Tips for Organizations Working Together at Different Maturity Levels
(March 2007) This 2007 presentation – delivered at SEPG North America 2007 – provides a case study from Accenture on how their organization handled integration at different maturity levels.

Improving Software Architecture Competence
(March 2007) Presented: March 2007

A Modest Process Area Proposal: "Blame Allocation"
(March 2007) Judah Mogilensky proposes a blame allocation, a process which ensures that, for every instance of things going seriously wrong, a culprit can be quickly idenitified and punished.

Analyzing Defects Can Tell a LOT About a Company
(March 2007) This presentation provides information on how best to analyze defects in order to learn more about the effectiveness of process improvement efforts.

CMMI for Services: Introducing the CMMI for Services Constellation
(March 2007) This presentation provides an introduction to the CMMI for Services project.

High Maturity Misconceptions: Common Misinterpretations of CMMI Maturity Levels 4 and 5
(March 2007) This presentation provides information about CMMI maturity levels 4 and 5 and seeks to clear up misconceptions about the implementation of process areas at higher maturity levels.

Achieving Success via Multi-Model Process Improvement
(March 2007) This is a tutorial. The results of the group exercises are attached to the tutorial PDF.

Software Architecture Design with ArchE
(March 2007) Felix Bachmann, Lenn Bass, and Philip Bianco present ArchE, a tool that provides the right information at the right time for architect when designing software architecture.

CMMI Version 1.2 and Beyond: SEPG 2007
(March 2007) This presentation provides an overview of CMMI Version 1.2, as well as plans for a next version, from SEPG 2007.

Achieving Success via Multi-Model Process Improvement: SEPG 2007
(March 2007) This presentation provides information on multi-model process improvement.

Supplier's Perspective on CMMI-ACQ
(March 2007) This presentation provides information on CMMI-ACQ from a supplier's perspective.

20 Points for Quality and Process Improvement
(March 2007) This presentation provides 20 distinct tips for improving the quality of process improvement efforts.

Tips for the Process Lead and Cohorts
(March 2007) This presentation provides tips for leaders of CMMI initiatives in various organizations.

Implementation of PMBOK Along With CMMI: QCG Experience
(March 2007) This presentation provides an overview of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and its interactions with CMMI.

Execution: The Key to Success
(March 2007) This presentation provides ten steps for achieving successful institutionalization of processes and tools.

Smart at Model, Dumb at Change
(March 2007) In this 2007 SEPG Conference presentation, D. Brantly provides advice for people seeking to become “change agents” within their organization.

About Sustaining Process Improvement
(March 2007) This presentation provides guidance on how to sustain process improvement efforts, once those efforts are implemented.

10 Proven Principles for Process Improvement and Organizational Success
(March 2007) This 2007 presentation by Dr. Richard Bechtold of Abridge Technology provides an overview of ten proven principles for process improvement and organizational success.

My Agile Life with CMMI
(March 2007) This presentation by Hillel Glazer (Entinex Inc.) provides a somewhat irreverent look at Agile and CMMI and their interactions with one another (2007).

People CMM and CMMI Synergy: Maintaining Long-Term CMMI-Based Improvement Through Enhanced Workforce Practices
(March 2007) This presentation looks at synergies between CMMI and the People CMM.

Software Security: Setting the Stage
(March 2007) This presentation provides an introduction to the topic of software security.

ULS Ecosystem Design
(March 2007) Kevin Sullivan of the University of Virginia discusses the major problems with designing a university library system (ULS) ULS ecosystem in this March 2007 presentation.

Assuring Mission Success in Complex Settings
(March 2007) Presented: March 2007

How to Start and Sustain a Local SPIN Chapter
(March 2007) Presented at SEPG

Can You Trust Your Data? Measurement and Analysis Infrastructure Diagnosis
(March 2007) presentation made at SEPG 2007, March 26-29, 2007, Austin Texas

Software Product Lines: Reuse That Makes Business Sense (Boeing Software Conference)
(March 2007) Presented: March 2007

March 2007 CMMI Performance Results
(March 2007) A presentation update by the CMMI Cloud Team from March 2007, which shows the process maturity profile results for CMMI, version 1.1 from end-of-year 2006.

System of Systems Common Operating Environment (SOSCOE) Support to Net Centricity
(March 2007) Presented: March 2007

Engineering Safety- and Security-Related Requirements for Software-Intensive Systems
(February 2007) presentation given at the 6th IEEE International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS) 2007, Alberta, Canada (February-March 2007)

Meeting the Challenges of Ultra-Large- Scale Systems via Model-Driven Engineering
(February 2007) Presented: February 2, 2007

High Maturity: How Do We Know?
(January 2007) This presentation provides an overview of material also available in the Understanding CMMI High Maturity Practices course offered by the SEI.

CMMI Version 1.2 Overview
(January 2007) This Software Engineering Institute (SEI) presentation, from January 2007, provides an overview of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), version 1.2.

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Version 1.2 Overview
(January 2007) This presentation provides a high-level overview of CMMI-DEV, version 1.2, as well as the appraisal method and the general benefits of using CMMI.

ATLAS Shrugged
(January 2007) This presentation provides an overview of a scenario-based email forum designed to elicit opinions from lead appraisers on topics of interest to that particular community.

CMMI Survival: Principles to Adhere to on Your CMMI Journey
(October 2006) This presentation provides principles to guide CMMI adoption in various organizations and settings.

Tutorial: Quality Assessment Of System Architectures and Their Requirements (QUASAR)
(October 2006) A tutorial presented by Donald Firesmith at the 9th Annual Systems Engineering Conference, October 23-27, 2006, in San Diego, California.

Process and Procedure Definition: A Primer
(October 2006) Presented: March 2007

Software-Intensive Systems Producibility
(October 2006) Presented: May 2006

Quality Assessment of System Architectures and Their Requirements
(October 2006) Presented: March 2007

Quality Assessment System Architectures
(October 2006) Presented: October 2006

Quality Assessment of System Architectures that their Requirements (QUASAR) Version 3.0
(October 2006) Presentation by Donald Firesmith (SEI) on QUASAR, V3.0 (February 2008).

Getting Program Decision- Makers to Use and be Part of Risk Management Process
(October 2006) presentation made at International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) 2007, San Diego, June 24-29, 2007

SCAMPI-B for Contract Monitoring
(October 2006) Presented: March 2007

Acquisition Support: Helping Programs Succeed (2008)
(October 2006) Presentation by Brian Gallagher, Director, Acquisition Support Program (SEI) on acquisition support. Provides a number of real-world examples relevant to the defense industry.

Using a Service Oriented Approach in TSAT
(October 2006) Presentation by Neal London, Dr. Carl Sunshine, and Dr. Charles Hammons on using the TSAT approach to service identification, classification, and definition (October 2006).

Identifying Acquisition Patterns of Failure Using Systems Archetypes
(October 2006) Presentation by Brian Gallagher which discusses acquisition archetypes and how they can be used to detect acquisition problems in an organization (April 2008).

Engineering Safety- and Security-Related Requirements for Software-Intensive Systems (SEPG 2006)
(October 2006) Presented by Donald Firesmith at SEPG 2006.

CMMI for Acquisition Organizations: The Next Wave of Outsourcing SEPG 2006
(October 2006) presentation made at the SEPG 2006 symposium, March 6-9, 2006, Nashville, Tennessee

2nd International Off-the-Shelf Development Method Workshop Report
(October 2006) presentation given at the 6th IEEE International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS) 2007, Alberta, Canada (February-March 2007)

Specifying Initial Design Review and Final Design Review Criteria
(October 2006) Presented: October 2006

Method Engineering using OPFRO
(October 2006) Presented: June 2006

Model-Based Improvement
(October 2006) Presented: September 2007

CMMI: The DoD Perspective
(October 2006) Presented: October 2006

Software Engineering Institute Acquisition Support Program Architecture Product Update
(October 2006) Peter Capell (SEI) discusses QUASAR, a method of assessing system architecture, and MFESA, a method framework that enables the development of system-specific architecture (2008).

Sustaining Software-Intensive Systems - A Conundrum
(October 2006) Presented at the Ground System Architectures Workshop 2006

Acquisition Support: Helping Programs Succeed
(October 2006) In this 2007 presentation, Brian Gallagher discusses the state of acquisition support and offers advice for better implementing acquisition support programs in an organization.

Applying CMMI, Software Architecture Principles, and Process Improvement in a DoD Acquisition
(October 2006) presentation given at the 2007 SEPG Conference, March 2007, Austin, Texas

Architectural Aspects of Long-Lived Ground Systems (2006)
(October 2006) Architectural Aspects of Long-Lived Ground Systems was presented by Charles "Bud" Hammons at the Ground Systems Architecture Workshop 2006.

Architectural Aspects of Long-Lived Ground Systems
(October 2006) This SEI presentation – “Using System Archetypes to Identify Failure Patterns in Acquisition” – was delivered by Diane Gibson, Linda Levine, and William E. Novak on May 2, 2006.

Acquiring Evolving Technologies: Web Services Standards
(October 2006) This 2006 presentation on Acquiring Evolving Technologies: Web Services Standards was given by Harry L. Levinson of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).

Advanced Risk Analysis for High-Performing Organizations
(October 2006) This presentation on Advanced Risk Analysis for High-Performing Organizations was delivered by Christopher Alberts and Audrey Dorofee of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).

Scale Changes Everything
(October 2006) A presentation to the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications held in Portland Oregon.

Scale Changes Everything, ICGSE 2006
(October 2006) International Conference on Global Software Engineering, Costão do Santinho, Florianópolis, Brazil, October 16-19, 2006.

Architecture and Design
(October 2006) This page contains the slides for John Klein’s guest lecture for COMP 180: Software Engineering, held at Tufts University, during the 2006 fall semester.

Service Oriented Architectures and Product Lines - What is the Connection?
(September 2006) presented at The 11th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2007), September 10-14, 2007, Kyoto, Japan

September 2006 CMMI Performance Results
(September 2006) Presented: September 2006

CMMI-DEV, V1.2 Training Changes
(August 2006) This presentation summarizes the changes to training that were made upon the release of CMMI-DEV, V1.2.

CMMI-DEV, V1.2 SCAMPI A Appraisal Method Changes
(August 2006) This presentation summarizes the changes to the SCAMPI A appraisal method upon the release of CMMI-DEV, V1.2.

CMMI-DEV V1.2 Model Changes
(August 2006) This presentation summarizes the changes made to CMMI-DEV, V1.2.

2006 State of Software Measurement Practice Survey
(August 2006) Mark Kasunic of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) discusses the then-current state of software measurement practice in this August 2006 presentation.

The CMMI Product Suite and International Standards
(July 2006) This presentation provides information on CMMI's synergy with other international standards, such as ISO/IEC 15504.

Best Practices in Software Architecture
(July 2006) This presentation on best practices in software architecture was delivered by Paul C. Clements of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) on July 26, 2006.

Use of CMMI in Acquisition Environments (2006)
(May 2006) presentation delivered at the Systems & Software Technology Conference (SSTC): Transforming: Business, Security, Warfighting, in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1-4 May 2006

Transformation of a Software Development Organization Using Software Acquisition Practices: A Case Study
(May 2006) presentation delivered at the Systems & Software Technology Conference (SSTC): Transforming: Business, Security, Warfighting, in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1-4 May 2006

Integrating Warfighter-Driven System-of-Systems Integration Into the Acquisition Life Cycle
(May 2006) presentation delivered at the Systems & Software Technology Conference (SSTC): Transforming: Business, Security, Warfighting, in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1-4 May 2006

Calculating CMMI-based ROI: Why When, What, and How?
(April 2006) This presentation explains why and how organizations should calculate their return on investment in CMMI-based process improvement activities.

Risk Themes from ATAM Data: Preliminary Results
(April 2006) In this 2006 presentation, Len Bass, Robert Nord, and William G. Wood of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) present a preliminary analysis of the results of a collection of ATAMs.

Architecture Evolution Working Session
(April 2006) This page contains the slides from a working session conducted at the Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) 2006 workshop, held in Pittsburgh, PA.

Architecture Evolution Working Session SATURN 2006
(April 2006) This page contains slides from the Architecture Evolution Working Session that was conducted at SATURN 2006. This session was meant to convey preliminary ideas for the purpose of getting feedback.

Architecture Centric Design Method
(April 2006) Presented: April 2006

SATURN SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network
(April 2006) Presentation by Robert L. Nord, Technical Staff (SEI) at the Second SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network Workshop (SATURN 2006)

SATURN 2006 Working Session: Strategic Risk Management for Architectures
(April 2006) Presented: April 2006

Future Directions of the Software Architecture Technology Initiative
(April 2006) Presented: April 2006

Architecture Analysis Boeing’s Experiences using the SEI ATAM and QAW Processes
(April 2006) Presented: April 2006

Architecture Competency
(April 2006) This presentation consists of the slides from the SATURN 2006 working session, which was meant to convey preliminary ideas for the purpose of receiving feedback.

Architectural Evolution (SATURN 2006)
(April 2006) This page contains slides from the Architecture Evolution Working Session that was hosted by Felix Bachmann and Robert Nord at SATURN 2006. This session was meant to convey preliminary ideas for the purpose of getting feedback.

Building a Software Architecture Community (SATURN 2006)
(April 2006) In this 2006 presentation, Rob Wojcik discusses how to turn the SATURN workshop into a network that is available to its members throughout the year.

ATAM and Collaboration at the Enterprise Level (SATURN 2006)
(April 2006) In this SATURN 2006 presentation, Craig Martin of Knotion Consulting covers the usage of the ATAM within a blackboard collaboration toolset.

Architecture Centric Development Method (SATURN 2006)
(April 2006) presentation from the SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop April 25-26, 2006

Architecture Analysis Overview and Observations
(April 2006) In this keynote address from the SEI SATURN 2006 workshop, Don O’Connell discusses the application of ATAM and QAW to a number of products from 2003 – 2006.

A Comparison of Requirements Specification Methods from a Software Architecture Perspective (SATURN 2006)
(April 2006) Ipek Ozkaya talks about an approach developed by Fergus O’Brien that is used to assess how well different requirement specification methods serve an architect’s goals and needs.

SEI Future Directions in SEI Software Architecture Technology (SAT) Initiative (SATURN 2006)
(April 2006) Mark H. Klein (SEI) briefly reviews the state of the Software Architecture Technology (SAT) initiative and outlines future research directions in this SATURN 2006 presentation.

Definition and Evaluation of Geographic Information System Architecture Using ADD and ATAM (SATURN 2006)
(April 2006) This presentation provides an overview of key findings from the application of the SEI's architectural methods in the definition and assessment of architecture for a Geographic Information System (GIS).

Global Software Development (SATURN 2006)
(April 2006) presentation from the SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop April 25-26, 2006

Architecture Risk Reduction Activities (SATURN 2006)
(April 2006) presentation from the SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop April 25-26, 2006

The Best of Three Worlds: Combining QAW, MDRE, and GA (SATURN 2006)
(April 2006) presentation from the SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop April 25-26, 2006

Raytheon's Architecture Journey (SATURN 2006)
(April 2006) Keynote address made by Rolf Siegers at SATURN 2006, in which Siegers discusses Raytheon and its institutionalization of architecture as a formal practice throughout the company.

Bridging System and Software Architecture (SATURN 2006)
(April 2006) presentation from the SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop April 25-26, 2006

Architectural Design of an Industrial AGV Transportation System with a Multiagent System Approach (SATURN 2006)
(April 2006) presentation from the SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop April 25-26, 2006

Let’s Teach Architecting High Quality Software
(April 2006) Presented: April 2006

Software Product Lines: Reuse That Makes Business Sense
(April 2006) This presentation on Software Product Lines: Reuse That Makes Business Sense was delivered by Linda M. Northrop of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in April 2006.

Going Global: A Practical Guide to Implementing Process Improvement Across Six Continents
(March 2006) In this 2006 presentation, Stephanie Archer and Paul Morgan of Gtech Corporation provide guidance for implementing process improvement on a global scale.

Measuring and Managing the CMMI Journey Using GQM
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

Harvesting CMMI Benefits: The Six Sigma Sickle
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

Integrating CMMI and ITIL: An Outsourcing Success Story
(March 2006) This presentation provides a case study of a successful implementation of CMMI and ITIL for an outsourcing account.

How to Untangle the Hairball: Integrating CMMI and ITIL Effectively in Application Engineering and Operations Environments
(March 2006) This presentation provides guidance on the scope of ITIL and how it relates to CMMI, as well as information on how to move from a CMMI-only organization to an integrated CMMI/ITIL framework.

Implementing Capability Maturity Model-Integrated (CMMI) in a Diverse Organization
(March 2006) This presentation provides a case study of a CMMI implementation within a highly diverse organization.

Agile/Lean Development and CMMI
(March 2006) This presentation provides a comparison of the concepts of Agile and Lean development, and investigates the applicability and usefulness of the CMMI product suite in these efforts.

Acquisition Support Program Overview
(March 2006) In this 2006 presentation, Brian Gallagher, Director of the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Acquisition Support Program (ASP) provides an overview of the ASP.

Tips for Organizations Working Together at Different Maturity Levels: SEPG 2006
(March 2006) This presentation provides guidance to help organizations at different maturity levels work together effectively. This presentation is from SEPG 2006.

Leveraging PIIDs for Continuous Process Improvement
(March 2006) This presentation provides information about and gives examples of how to leverage Practice Implementation Indicator Descriptions (PIIDs) for process improvement.

Running an SEPG: How SSC San Diego Operates its SEPG
(March 2006) This presentation provides an overview of the planning for SEPG 2006.

Tailoring and Combining the CMMI-ACQ and Quality Models to Improve the Military’s Requirements Process
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

SCAMPI Lessons Learned from Experiences in the Field
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

Project Management by Functional Capability
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

Introduction the CMMI Acquisition Module: Background
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

Introduction the CMMI Acquisition Module: Project Management
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

Introduction the CMMI Acquisition Module: Engineering
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

Introduction the CMMI Acquisition Module: Support
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

Introduction the CMMI Acquisition Module: Generic Practices
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

Introduction the CMMI Acquisition Module: Using CMMI Acquisition
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

Introduction the CMMI Acquisition Module: Conclusion
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

Designing Your Tailoring Approach to Help Achieve Higher Levels of Maturity
(March 2006) This presentation provides information on how to adapt an organization's standard processes to meet a project's objectives.

CMMI Version 1.2 and Beyond
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

Six Sigma Tools for Early Adopters
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

Use of CMMI in Acquisition Environments
(March 2006) This tutorial defines effective and efficient acquisition practices, which are intended to provide a basis for acquisition process discipline while balancing the need for agility.

Engineering Safety-Related Requirements for Software-Intensive Systems
(March 2006) Presented: March 2006

March 2006 Software CMM Performance Results
(March 2006) The process maturity profile results for the SW-CMM, v1.1, from March 2006.

March 2006 CMMI Performance Results
(March 2006) The process maturity profile results for CMMI, from March 2006

Future Trends of Software Technology and Applications: Software Architecture
(January 2006) Presented: January 2006

CMMI Executive Overview
(January 2006) This CMMI overview is designed for high-level executives.

Process In Execution Review (PIER) and the SCAMPI B Method
(November 2005) Presented: November 2005

The Effects of CMMI on Program Performance
(November 2005) Presented: November 2005

Software Outsourcing with CMMI
(November 2005) Presented: November 2005

High Maturity/Capability Appraisals
(October 2005) This tutorial provides guidance on how to understand and interpret "high maturity" and "high capability" practices.

Examining Product Line Readiness: Experiences with the SEI Product Line Technical Probe
(September 2005) Presented: November 2005

Engineering Safety-Related Requirements for Software-Intensive Systems (September 2005)
(September 2005) Presented: September 2005

Introduction to Software Product Line Adoption
(September 2005) In this 2005 presentation, Linda M. Northrop of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) provides an introduction to software product line acquisition.

Bridging the Gap Between CMMI and Six Sigma Training: An Overview and Case Study of Performance-Driven Process Analysis
(September 2005) This SEI presentation on bridging the gap between CMMI and Six Sigma training was delivered by Dave Hallowell and Jeannine Siviy in September 2005.

September 2005 Software CMM Performance Results
(September 2005) The process maturity profile results for the SW-CMM, v1.1, from September 2005.

September 2005 CMMI Performance Results
(September 2005) The process maturity profile for CMMI, from September 2005.

Integrating CMMI and Six Sigma in Software and Systems Engineering
(September 2005) Presented: September 2005

The ComFoRT Reasoning Framework
(August 2005) Presented: August 2005

Using a Balanced Scorecard to Help Achieve CMMI Maturity Level 4
(June 2005) This presentation provides a case study of an implementation of CMMI at maturity level 4.

Special Intelligence from the Women in Black: SEPG Europe 2005
(June 2005) This tutorial provides several perspectives relating to CMMI: the executive perspective, the manager perspective, the developer perspective, and the process group perspective. Delivered at SEPG Europe 2005.

CCL in Pictures
(June 2005) Presented: June 2005

Adopting Software Product Lines: Getting Leverage from Your Process Improvement
(June 2005) Presented: June 2005

Achieving Quality Requirements with Reused Software Components: Challenges to Successful Reuse
(May 2005) In this MPEC 2005 presentation, Donald Firesmith of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) discusses how to achieve quality requirements with reusable software.

Reflections on Software Agility and Agile Methods: Challenges, Dilemmas, & the Way Ahead
(May 2005) Presented: May 2005

Software Product Lines: Past, Present, and Future
(May 2005) Presented: May 2005

How Does High Maturity Benefit The Customer?
(April 2005) This presentation discusses the advantages of a high maturity organization, the difference between Level 3 and Level CMMI, and how high maturity benefits the customer (2005).

Software Product Lines
(April 2005) Presented: April 2005

Quality-Attribute-Driven Software Architecture Reconstruction (SATURN 2005)
(April 2005) This presentation was given by William O’Brien on Quality-Attribute-Driven Software Architecture Reconstruction at the SEI’s SATURN 2005 workshop.

An Experience Report on Using UML 2.0 to Document Software Architectures (SATURN 2005)
(April 2005) Art Culbertson discusses his experiences using UML 2.0 in the context of the “Views and Beyond” approach with particular emphasis on achieving information continuity across views.

SATURN SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN 2005)
(April 2005) presentation at SATURN 2005, April 6-7, 2005 in Pittsburgh, PA

The ABACUS Architectural Approach to Computer-Based System and Enterprise Evolution (SATURN 2005)
(April 2005) Tim O’Neil discusses the ABACUS methodology and how it can be used to analyze software and enterprise systems in order to guide the evolution of software architecture (2005).

Architecture Design Expert (SATURN 2005)
(April 2005) Felix Bachmann and Mark Klein (SEI) discuss how to design software architecture that meets software requirements using ArchE, a tool design to aid an architect during the design process.

Making the Role Your Own (SATURN 2005)
(April 2005) This page contains the keynote presentation by Nanette Brown of Pitney Bowes from the SEI SATURN 2005 Workshop, held in Pittsburgh, PA from April 6-7, 2005.

Architecture Reviews @ Bosch (SATURN 2005)
(April 2005) This page contains the keynote presentation by Stefan Ferber of Robert Bosch GmbH from the SEI SATURN 2005 workshop, held in Pittsburgh, PA from April 6-7, 2005.

Closing Session Notes (SATURN 2005)
(April 2005) closing session summary from SATURN 2005, April 6-7, 2005

Working Session Notes (SATURN 2005)
(April 2005) working session summary from SATURN 2005, April 6-7, 2005

Integrating Software Architecture Evaluation in a DoD System Acquisition
(April 2005) This SATURN 2005 presentation by John Bergey and Timothy Morrow of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) discusses how to integrate software architecture evaluation in a DoD system acquisition.

Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) 2005 Wrap Up
(April 2005) Presented: April 2005

Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) 2005 Working Session Notes
(April 2005) Presented: April 2005

Are All Quality Goals Created Equal? (SATURN 2005)
(April 2005) presented at the SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop April 6-7, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA

Product Line Engineering for Global Development (SATURN 2005)
(April 2005) This paper, presented at the SATURN 2005 workshop, describes how product line engineering practices are being used in Siemens to better plan and manage global development projects.

ATAM Experiences
(April 2005) Pankaj Jalote discusses how Corporate Research ABB uses the SEI ATAM to analyze the architectures of their applications and systems, which results in both decision making supports for their stakeholder and good practice in general.

Methodical Design of Software Architecture Using an Architecture Design Assistant (ArchE)
(April 2005) This presentation – on methodically designing software architecture using ArchE, an architecture design assistant – was presented by Felix Bachmann and Mark H. Klein in 2005.

Large-Scale Creative Work (2005)
(April 2005) Keynote presentation slides from SEPG 2005 by Watts Humphrey

Improper Use of Control Charts: Traps to Avoid
(March 2005) This presentation provides information on statistical process control and how it can benefit a CMMI implementation.

The Process Improvement Journey of Boeing Information Services, Wichita
(March 2005) This presentation provides a case study of a CMMI implementation at Boeing Information Services in Wichita, KS.

Extreme Programming, Six Sigma, CMMI: How They Can Work Together - A JPMorgan Chase Case Study
(March 2005) This presentation contains a case study of process improvement methods used at JPMorgan Chase.

CMMI and Six Sigma Synergy
(March 2005) This presentation examines the relationship and synergies between CMMI and Six Sigma.

Avoiding a Documentation Glut when Achieving CMM or CMMI
(March 2005) This presentation provides guidance on how to avoid overwhelming documentation when implementing process improvement efforts.

SCAMPI Lessons Learned
(March 2005) This presentation provides a case study of a SCAMPI A implementation at Lockheed Martin in 2005.

Process Improvement in Retrospective: Lessons Learned from Software Projects
(March 2005) This presentation shares lessons learned from various software projects and process improvement activities.

CMMI Level 5 Processes Make it Easy to Define and Deploy Measurable, Achievable Goals to Your Organization
(March 2005) This presentation provides an overview of high maturity process improvement techniques used by Raytheon.

Delivering a CMMI-Compliant Project Plan in 30 Minutes
(March 2005) This presentation provides an overview of a tool that Booz Allen Hamilton uses to develop their CMMI-compliant project plans.

Implementing the CMMI in a Six Sigma World
(March 2005) This presentation provides a look at CMMI and Six Sigma, and how they can be used together.

Lessons Learned from Adopting CMMI in Small Organizations
(March 2005) This presentation provides a case study of CMMI adoption within a small organization, along with general guidance for CMMI adoption in small businesses.

Architecting Standard Processes with SWEBOK and CMMI
(March 2005) This presentation provides a mapping between the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) and CMMI.

Debating the Tough Change Requests: Appraisal Perspectives by Kathy Smith
(March 2005) This presentation provides more information on appraisal change requests.

Debating the Tough Change Requests: Appraisal Perspectives
(March 2005) This presentation provides advice on change requests that are submitted against the existing CMMI appraisal process.

Process Improvement in an Organization on Steroids: How to Maintain Quality as Your Organization Grows Rapidly
(March 2005) This presentation provides a case study of process improvement at Booz Allen Hamilton.

DAR to be More Effective: Applying Decision Analysis and Resolution With Good Sense
(March 2005) This presentation provides a close look at the Decision Analysis and Resolution (DAR) process area.

Return on Investment (ROI) from OID and CWI
(March 2005) This presentation details the return on investment realized from CMMI implementation at Tata Consultancy Services.

CMMI: Staged or Continuous?
(March 2005) This presentation details the return on investment realized from CMMI implementation at Tata Consultancy Services.

Accelerating CMMI Implementation with PSP and TSP in a Small Organization
(March 2005) This presentation provides an overview of a CMMI implementation in a small organization, in conjunction with PSP and TSP.

TSP PSP at Intuit
(March 2005) Noopur Davis of the Software Engineering Institute and Eileen Fagan of Intuit present a summary of Intuit's implementation of a TSP/PSP pilot project beginning in 2003.

Using Six Sigma to Accelerate CMMI Adoption (and Vice Versa)
(March 2005) Presented: March 2005

Applying the Team Software Process
(March 2005) How does TSP fit into existing culture and processes? Can TSP promises be fulfilled when working with a complex code base that has evolved over more than 10 years?

Integrating CMMI & Six Sigma in Software and Systems Engineering
(March 2005) Presented: March 2005

Implementing the CMMI Within an Information Technology Organization
(March 2005) This presentation provides a case study of a CMMI implementation at Honeywell from March 2005.

Debating the Tough (SCAMPI) Change Requests
(March 2005) This presentation details the procedure for handling SCAMPI change requests and provides suggested improvements to this process.

March 2005 Software CMM Performance Results
(March 2005) The process maturity profile results for the SW-CMM, v1.1, for March 2005.

March 2005 CMMI Performance Results
(March 2005) The process maturity profile results for CMMI, from March 2005.

A Superior Process: Requirements
(February 2005) Watts Humphrey provides information about the benefits of process improvement, as well as examples of organizations that could have used process improvement more effectively.

Thoughts on Applying CMMI in Small Settings
(January 2005) This presentation provides an overview of CMMI adoption in small settings, and gives a case study of one such adoption.

Using Architecture-Centric Methods within Plan Driven and Agile Software Development Processes
(January 2005) Presented: January 2005

Surveying Systems Engineering Effectiveness
(January 2005) Presented: January 2005

A Taxonomy of Operational Risks
(January 2005) Presented: January 2005

SSA's Journey to SW-CMM ML3 and Transition to CMMI
(January 2005) Presented: January 2005

A Process-Oriented (Practical) Approach to Program Office Systems Engineering Management Using the CMMI-AM as a Guide
(January 2005) Presented: January 2005

Samsung SDS' Experience Performing SCAMPI Class A with the People CMM
(January 2005) Presented: January 2005

A Method for Reasoning About an Acquisition Strategy
(January 2005) A presentation about software acquisition made in January 2005 by Mary Catherine Ward and Joseph P. Elm

Sustaining Software-Intensive Systems: A Conundrum
(January 2005) Presented: January 2005

Diagnostic Software: What Your Developer Doesn't Know
(January 2005) Presented: January 2005

Coordinating Process Improvement in Multiple Geographically Dispersed Development Organizations Using CMMI
(December 2004) This presentation provides a case study on a CMMI implementation in an organization with multiple geographic locations.

Less is, in fact, More: 60% Paper Reduction Using an Enterprise-Wide Process Framework
(November 2004) This presentation provides a case study of CMMI implementation at General Dynamics and the resultant reduction in paper use there.

Technology Examples of CMMI Benefits
(November 2004) This presentation provides an overview of realized CMMI benefits at JP Morgan Chase.

CMMI Level 5: Return on Investment for Raytheon N TX
(November 2004) This presentation provides an overview on the return on Raytheon's investment in CMMI.

Accelerating CMMI Adoption Using Six Sigma: Northrop Grumman Case Study
(November 2004) This presentation provides a case study of a CMMI and Six Sigma implementation at Northrop Grumman in 2004.

Model - Appraisal Method Interactions
(November 2004) Presented: November 2004

The SCAMPI Appraisal Method: Top Ten Myths (2004 Edition)
(November 2004) Presented: November 2004

CMMI: Current State and Future Plans
(November 2004) This presentation provides an update on the status of the CMMI projects, as of November 2004.

Organizational Considerations for the Estimating Process
(November 2004) Presented: November 2004

Using Six Sigma to Accelerate the Adoption of CMMI for Optimal Results
(October 2004) Presented: October 2004

A Measurement & Analysis Training Solution Supporting CMMI & Six Sigma Transition
(October 2004) Presented: October 2004

Practical Process Improvement: The Journey and Benefits
(September 2004) This presentation provides an overview of IBM's application of the CMM.

Measurement and Analysis: What Can and Does Go Wrong?
(September 2004) Presented: September 2004

Technology Examples of CMMI Benefits: August 2004
(August 2004) This presentation provides examples of realized benefits from CMMI adoption at JP Morgan.

August 2004 CMMI Performance Results
(August 2004) The process maturity profile results for CMMI, v1.1, from August 2004.

August 2004 Software CMM Performance Results
(August 2004) The process maturity profile results for the SW-CMM, v1.1, from August 2004.

The Business Benefits of CMMI at NCR Self Service
(June 2004) This presentation provides information about the business benefits of CMMI, through a case study at NCR Self Service.

Quality for IT Development and IT Service Operations: CMMI and ITIL in a Common Quality Approach
(June 2004) This presentation provides a case study about a CMMI and ITIL implementation at Die Bahn Systems, GmbH.

Measuring Software Product Quality: the ISO 25000 Series and CMMI
(June 2004) Presented: January 2004

Why Isn't Someone Coding Yet (WISCY)?
(May 2004) Presented: May 2004

Integration and Interoperability Models for Systems of Systems
(April 2004) David J. Carney and Tricia Oberndorf propose and discuss a unified model of interoperability for the integration of system of systems (SoSs) in this 2004 presentation.

SCAMPI B&C Tutorial: SEPG 2004
(March 2004) This presentation is an overview of the SCAMPI B and SCAMPI C appraisal methods.

Preserving the CMM Investment When Transitioning to CMMI
(March 2004) This presentation provides information on how to leverage an investment in the Software CMM into a transition to CMMI.

Special Intelligence from the Women in Black
(March 2004) This tutorial provides several perspectives relating to CMMI: the executive perspective, the manager perspective, the developer perspective, and the process group perspective.

Getting From Here (SW-CMM) to There (CMMI) in a Large Organization
(March 2004) In this 2004 SEPG Conference presentation, Cheryl Brickey provides information about a transition from the Software CMM to the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) at IBM.

CMMI Service Implementation
(March 2004) This presentation provides an overview of a CMMI implementation focused on service delivery - from 2005.

Experiences with Focused SCAMPI at NASA
(March 2004) This presentation provides an experience report of a CMMI implementation and subsequent SCAMPI appraisal at NASA.

Strategies for Transitioning from SW-CMM to CMMI
(March 2004) This presentation provides a tutorial for how to transition from the Software CMM to CMMI.

DAR Basics: Applying Decision Analysis and Resolution in the Real World
(March 2004) This presentation provides a suggested methodology for implementing Decision Analysis and Resolution (DAR).

Interpretive Guidance: What We've Learned
(March 2004) This presentation provides an overview of interpretive guidance and how it relates to CMMI.

Applying CMMI to a Production Support (Software Maintenance) Environment
(March 2004) This presentation provides an overview of production support (the process of operating and maintaining a computer application over time) and demonstrates how CMMI can be used for this purpose.

Measurement Within the CMMI
(March 2004) This presentation examines the different types of measurement methods found within CMMI.

The Proof is in the Project: Combining Personal and Team Process with CMMI Level 5
(March 2004) In this 2004 presentation, Steve Brady and Sherri Turner provide information about the adoption of the Personal Software Process (PSP) and CMMI at Northrop Grumman.

What Functional Groups are Included in the CMMI-SE/SW/IPPD/SS Model?
(March 2004) This presentation by Roland Weiss of ABB Corporate Research includes examples and considerations for deciding the organizational scope for process improvement and appraisal.

Conducting Effective Pilot Studies
(March 2004) Presented: March 2004

Do's and Don'ts of Process Improvement
(March 2004) This presentation provides an overview of some things to do - and not to do - when undertaking process improvement efforts. An updated version of this presentation is also available.

Secure and Mature: Combining a CMMI SCAMPI with an ISO/IEC 21827 (SSE-CMM) Appraisal
(March 2004) This presentation provides a case study of a combined SCAMPI appraisal and an ISO appraisal.

Product-Based Approach for CMMI Appraisals
(March 2004) This presentation provides information on how to establish a guide for implementing CMMI in organization and project processes.

Achieving Product Qualities Through Software Architecture Practices
(March 2004) Presented: March 2004

Why Make the Switch? Evidence About the Benefits of CMMI
(March 2004) This presentation provides an overview of the benefits of CMMI adoption.

Trading Places: Measurement and Analysis in the Eyes of the Acquirer and the Supplier
(March 2004) Presented: March 2004

Applying CMMI Generic Practices with Good Judgment
(March 2004) This tutorial provides an understanding of which CMMI model components contribute to institutionalization, as well as guidance for the effective implementation and appraisal of CMMI generic practices.

March 2004 Software CMM Performance Results
(March 2004) The process maturity profile results for the SW-CMM, from March 2004.

March 2004 CMMI Performance Results
(March 2004) The process maturity profile results for CMMI, from March 2004.

Experiences With Leveraging Six Sigma to Implement CMMI Levels 4 and 5
(February 2004) This presentation provides an overview of a CMMI level 4 and 5 implementation, using Six Sigma practices to provide additional guidance.

System of Systems Integration Cost Driver Research
(February 2004) This presentation provides an overview of a CMMI level 4 and 5 implementation, using Six Sigma practices to provide additional guidance.

Improving Acquisition through COTS Risk Identification
(January 2004) A presentation made during the 2004 SIS Conference: Improving Acquisition through COTS Risk Identification.

Reconsidering the Role of Systems Engineering in DoD Software Problems
(January 2004) This 2004 presentation on reconsidering the role of systems engineering in DoD software problems was delivered by Grady Campell of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).

NAVAIR Software Acquisition Improvement
(January 2004) This 2004 presentation on Software Acquisition Process Improvement was delivered by Donald R. Beyron, Debra Borden (NAVAIR), Gerry Imai (STSC), and John Kennedy (MITRE).

Product Line Acquisition and Measurement at NUWC
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Acquisition Pilot: The Application of OAR in a Lead System Integrator Context
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Software Best Practices Clearinghouse
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Acquisition Modeling: The Key to Managing Acquisition Complexity?
(January 2004) “Acquisition Modeling: The Key to Managing Acquisition Complexity?” was delivered at the 3rd OSD Conference on the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems in January 2004.

Software Acquisition Best Practices 2004 Edition
(January 2004) This 2004 presentation was delivered at the 3rd OSD Conference on the Acquisition of Software Intensive Systems by Richard J. Adams and others of the Aerospace Corporation.

Improving the Management of the Software Acquisition Process: a Methodological Approach in Automotive
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

A Best Practices Survey of the Rail Road Industry
(January 2004) A presentation in January 2004 to survey the U.S. railroad industry to benchmark best practices in the acquisition of software-intensive systems.

Requirements for a Software Chief Engineer for a Weapons Systems Acquisition
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Using the CMMI® in Acquisition Environments
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Accelerating the Adoption of Improved Practices Using Acquisition Pilots
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Software Reviews Since Acquisition Reform - The Artifact Perspective
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Identifying Risks in Outsourcing Software-Intensive Projects
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Improving Software Acquisition Processes: A Study of Real Project Costs
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Successful Acquisition of FAA Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Systems, Networks and Information Integration Context for Software Assurance
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Evolutionary Acquisition of the Future Combat Systems (FCS)
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Collaborative Government/Contractor SCAMPI Appraisal
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Why Not Network Centric Acquisition?
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Air Force Software Intensive Systems Strategic Improvement Program (AFSSIP)
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

SOSI: System of Systems Interoperability
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Integrated Architecture Development
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Defense Systems Systems Engineering
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

US/UK/AUS Trilateral Software Intensive Systems Acquisition Improvement Group (SISAIG)
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Comanche Process Improvement Vision and Initiatives
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Software's "Inoperable" Interoperability Problem
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Software Product Maturity in SIS Source Selection
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Acquisition Oversight as a Function of Program Office Capability
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

The Diagnostic Roadmap
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Requirements Nightmare Put to Rest - F/A-18 Advanced Weapons Laboratory
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Software Acquisition Life Cycle Measure Plan based on the revised
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

An Acquirer's Guide to Navigating Contractor Data
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

An Alternative to TRLs for COTS Software-Intensive Systems
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Scenario-Driven System Engineering (SDSE) for System of Systems Acquisition
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

CMMI Today
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

SCAMPI B/C Pilots in Acquisition Environments
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Guidelines for Acquisition Planning (January 2004)
(January 2004) This 2004 presentation on Guidelines for Acquisition Planning was delivered by Cecilia A. Albert and three others of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).

Iterative RFP Project Management
(January 2004) This 2004 presentation on iterative RFP project management was delivered by Chris Armstrong and Bobbi Underbakke of Adaptive Team Collaboration (ADC).

Early Warning Indicators in the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems
(January 2004) In this 2004 presentation, Barry Boehm of the University of California (Los Angeles) discusses early warning indicators in the acquisition of software-intensive systems.

Principles of Architecture Design and Evaluation
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Design and Analysis Principles for Software Architecture
(January 2004) Presented: January 2004

Strategies for Implementing the CMMI Project Management Process Category
(January 2004) This 2004 presentation by Natural SPI – an SEI transition partner – provides specific strategies for implementing the Project Management process category.

Quantitatively Measured Process Improvements at Northrop Grumman IT
(November 2003) This presentation provides information on process improvements implemented at Northrop Grumman, and illuminates them in a quantitative fashion.

CMMI Transition at Motorola GSG
(November 2003) This presentation provides a case study of CMMI transition activities at Motorola.

Transition from SW-CMM to CMMI: The Benefits Continue
(November 2003) This presentation provides information on the benefits from transitioning from the Software CMM to CMMI.

CMMI: The Current State
(November 2003) This presentation provides a look at the state of CMMI at Raytheon, as of 2003.

Key Business Indicator Trends During the Journey From SW-CMM Level 2 to CMMI Level 5 at Lockheed Martin Data Management Systems
(November 2003) This presentation provides a case study of a CMMI implementation at Lockheed Martin.

The SCAMPI Appraisal Method: Top Ten Misperceptions
(November 2003) This presentation details tem common misperceptions about the SCAMPI appraisal method.

CMMI Today: The Current State
(November 2003) This presentation gives an overview of the state of CMMI at Lockheed Martin, as of November 2003.

Measurement in a Process Framework
(September 2003) Presented: September 2003

Reusable Security Requirements
(September 2003) presentation from RE'2003 RHAS'03 Workshop, September 12, 2003

The Business Case for Requirements Engineering
(September 2003) presentation from RE'2003 RHAS'03 Workshop, September 12, 2003

CMMI Level 4 Preparation: The Story of the Chicken and the Egg
(June 2003) This presentation provides a case study from Thales Air Traffic Control about their CMMI implementation.

Applying CMMI in Information Technology Organizations
(March 2003) This presentation contains a case study from ChangeBridge, Incorporated, on applying CMMI to an information technology organization.

CMMI: If You Don't Know Where You Stand, You're Not Ready For an Internal Appraisal
(February 2003) This presentation provides a case study from the Tybrin corporation about their CMMI implementation and their use of the appraisal method.

CMMI Level 3 in a Large Multi-Disciplinary Services Organization
(February 2003) This 2003 presentation was delivered by Sarah Bengzon at the 2003 SEPG Conference, in which she provides a case study of a level 3 CMMI implementation at Accenture.

Meeting the Challenge of a SCAMPI Level 5 Appraisal
(February 2003) This presentation contains a case study about a maturity level 5 appraisal at Infosys.

Experiences with Indicator-Based Appraisals: Lockheed Martin Continuous Appraisal Method (CAM)
(February 2003) This presentation provides a case study from Lockheed Martin in 2003.

There is a Method to This Madness: Transforming Appraisal Findings Into a Process Improvement Plan
(February 2003) This presentation provides guidance on how to translate appraisal findings into process improvement implementations.

Using Pilots to Assess the Value and Approach of CMMI Implementation
(February 2003) This presentation provides lessons learned from NASA's implementation of process improvement initiatives.

Experiences with Indicator-Based CMMI Appraisals at Raytheon
(February 2003) Presentation by Jane A. Moon, Raytheon Systems Company, on a case study of CMMI appraisals. Delivered at the SEPG 2003 Conference in Boston, MA.

Painless Transition from SW-CMM Level 2 to CMMI Level 3
(February 2003) Ruth Berggren of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) provides information on a transition from the Software CMM to the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).

Camping on a Seesaw: GM's IS&S Process Improvement Approach
(February 2003) This presentation provides an overview of GM's process improvement activities.

CMM/CMMI Level 4: Quantitative Measurement Versus Qualitative Management
(February 2003) This presentation examines the difference between quantitative and qualitative management at maturitylevel 4.

The Case for Using TSP with CMM/CMMI
(February 2003) This presentation explains how TSP can be used with CMMI to implement process improvement efforts.

Getting Through Your SCAMPI Appraisal: Using CMMI to Make and Measure Meaningful Improvements
(February 2003) This presentation provides guidance for anyone seeking a SCAMPI appraisal of his or her organization.

Getting Started in Process Improvement
(February 2003) This presentation is a high-level overview of how to begin process improvement efforts.

A Practical Application of CMMI Level 5 Practices
(February 2003) This presentation provides a case study of the Future Scout and Cavalry System program, circa 2001.

CMMI Appraisal Results
(February 2003) This Software Engineering Institute (SEI) presentation discussing CMMI appraisal results was delivered by David Zubrow at SEPG 2003 on February 25, 2003.

Exploring CMMI-ISO 9001:2000 Synergy when Developing a Process Improvement Strategy
(February 2003) This presentation provides an overview of the synergies between CMMI and the ISO 9000 framework.

Data Analysis Dynamics
(February 2003) Presented: February 2003

The "Internal Offshore" Experience at Reuters
(January 2003) This presentation provides an overview of CMMI and Six Sigma process improvement efforts at Reuters.

SA-CMM in a Large Complex Program
(January 2003) This January 2003 presentation – “SA-CMM in a Large Complex Program” – was delivered by Lloyd Anderson and Hugh Gray at a Software Engineering Institute (SEI) conference in Washington, D.C.

System of Systems Architecture and TSPR Contractor Model
(January 2003) This presentation was delivered by Jonathan D. Addelston at the Conference on the Acquisition of Software Intensive Systems on January 29, 2003.

Measuring Systems Interoperability
(January 2003) presentation from the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems Conference, January 28-30, 2003

Reducing System Acquisition Risk with Software Architecture Analysis and Evaluation
(January 2003) This 2003 presentation on reducing system acquisition risk with software architecture analysis and evaluation was delivered by J.K. Bergey, Matt Fisher, and Lawrence G. Jones of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).

Keynote Address: Conference on the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems
(January 2003) This page contains the keynote presentation by Claude M. Bolton at the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems Conference, held from January 28-30, 2003.

Complex Systems of Systems (CSOS): Software Benefits, Risks, and Strategies
(January 2003) In this 2003 presentation, V. Basili and Barry Boehm provide an overview of complex systems of systems, discussing the software benefits, risks, and strategies associated with them.

Software Product Lines in Acquisition
(January 2003) This 2003 presentation on Software Product Lines in Acquisition was delivered by Grady Campbell of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in January 2003.

A Systems Thinking Approach to Building and Updating C4ISR Architecture Views
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Is There Order or Chaos After 5000?
(January 2003) presentation at the Conference on the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems, January 28-30, 2003

Tri-Service Assessment Initiative Phase 2 Systemic Analysis Results
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

eQualite: Quality Assessment of Software Suppliers
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Software Sustainability and Acquisition Reform: A View from the Bottom
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

The State of Practice in DoD Acquisitions, and Some Proposed Alternatives
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Software Intensive System Acquisition: Best Practices
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Use of Questionnaire-Based Appraisals in Process Improvement Programs
(January 2003) presentation at the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems Conference, January 28, 2003, in Arlington, Virginia

Managing Software Risks in Software Intensive Systems with Metrics and Measures
(January 2003) presentation at the Conference on the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems, January 28-30, 2003

The Incompatibility Between Software Component Based Development and Present UK MoD Procurement Approaches
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Developing Enterprise-wide Measures for Tracking Acquisition Performance
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Rapid Improvement Team (RIT) Initiative with GTN 21 - Lessons Learned from GTN 2
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Revitalizing the Software Acquisition Process
(January 2003) presentation from the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems Conference, January 28-30, 2003

Enterprise Process Improvement Approach
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Defining Acquisition Measures: The Integrated Software Acquisition Metrics (ISAM) Project
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Enterprise Architecture and COTS Intensive System Acquisition Strategies
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Refining Software Development Estimation Techniques for the Federal Aviation Administration En-Route Systems Acquisition
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Acquisition Practices: Good and Bad
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Fourteen SCEs Around the World in Less than 40 Days
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Rapid and Adaptive System Acquisition
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Software Regression Testing
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

TRL Corollaries for Practice-Based Technologies
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

NAVAIR/SEI/MITRE Strategic Collaboration
(January 2003) presentation from the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems Conference, January 28-30, 2003

Service Level Agreements: An Approach to Software Life-Cycle Quality
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Software Acquisition Best Practices: Experiences from the Space System Domain
(January 2003) presentation from the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems Conference, January 28-30, 2003

Independent Integrated Verification and Validation
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

The Role of the Revised IEEE Standard Dictionary of Measures of the Software Aspects of Dependability in Software Acquisition
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

Implementing Best Practices in the Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI) Program at AFRL
(January 2003) IPresented: January 2003

The Software Maturity Matrix: A Software Performance Metric
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

The UK/US Bilateral on Improving Military Software Intensive System Acquisition - A UK View
(January 2003) Presentation by Dr. Dave Thombs, Pricing & Forecasting Group (PFG), made on January 2003.

Experience and Lessons-Learned in Applying the Tri-Service Assessment Initiative Process
(January 2003) This presentation on the experiences and lessons learned in applying the Tri-Service Assessment Initiative Process was delivered by William Bail of MITRE on January 28, 2003.

Transforming an Agency in an Interagency Environment
(January 2003) This 2003 presentation was delivered by Charles R. Armstrong of the Customs Modernization Office at the Conference on the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems.

Lessons Learned on Cooperative Government-Industry Appraisals
(January 2003) This 2003 presentation was delivered by Melanie Benhoff of Integrity Applications, Inc., in which she presents a number of lessons learned on cooperative government/industry appraisals.

They Keep Moving the Cheese
(January 2003) “They Keep Moving the Cheese: A Framework for the Evolutionary Acquisition of Large Software Intensive Systems” was delivered by Cecilia Albert and Lisa Brownsword in 2003.

Back to the Future: Leveraging Your SW-CMM Investment to Support Transition to CMMI
(January 2003) Presentation by Suzanne Garcia (SEI) which discusses how businesses can leverage their SW-CMM investment to help them transition to CMMI (January 2003).

Effectively Deploying CMMI in a Large Organization
(January 2003) This 2003 presentation by Sarah Bengzon of Accenture provides a case study of a CMMI implementation in a large organization.

Developing Enterprise-Wide Measures for Tracking Performance of Acquisition Organizations
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

CMMI: Improving and Integrating
(January 2003) This presentation provides an overview of CMMI from 2003.

Advanced Engineering Environments for Small Manufacturing Enterprises
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

New Directions in Risk Management at the SEI
(January 2003) presentation for the NASA Risk Management Conference, September 4, 2003

A Family of SCAMPI Appraisal Methods
(January 2003) This presentation provides an overview of the SCAMPI appraisal method.

A Cost Model for Software System Families
(January 2003) Presented: January 2003

From Projects to Product Lines: A Product Line Economics Case Study
(January 2003) This presentation provides an overview of the SCAMPI appraisal method.

A Conceptual Framework for Network Centric Warfare
(December 2002) Presented: December 2002

Business Value and Customer Benefits Derived From High Maturity
(November 2002) This presentation provides information on the business value realized from high maturity CMMI practices.

Assessing the Economic Impacts of Architectural Decisions
(September 2002) The CBAM (Cost Benefit Analysis Method) extends the ATAM framework to elicit and model costs, benefits, and uncertainty.

Getting More Out of Your Inspection Data: Using Capture-Recapture Models for the Reinspection Decision
(April 2002) This presentation on getting more out of your inspection data through the usage of capture-recapture models was delivered on April 12, 2002 at the European SEPG 2002 Conference.

Team Software Process for Secure Systems Development
(March 2002) Defective software is not secure. Find out how TSP can help with secure systems development.

Are You Prepared for CMMI?
(March 2002) This presentation provides information on the transition from the Software CMM to CMMI.

Evolving the SEPG to a CMMI World
(February 2002) This presentation discusses the change from the Software CMM to CMMI and how it affected the SEPG conference.

How Good Is the Software: A Review of Defect Prediction Techniques
(February 2002) presentation from the SEPG 2002 Conference

Measuring Acquisition Processes
(February 2002) Presented: February 2002

The Use of Measures in Security Analysis
(February 2002) presentation at SEPG 2002, February 17-21, 2002 in Phoenix, Arizona

An Integrated View of Process and Measurement
(February 2002) Presented: February 2002

The IDEAL Model
(July 2001) Presentation from July 2001 on the IDEAL model, an organizational improvement model that serves as a roadmap for initiating, planning, and implementing improvement actions.

Beyond CMMI-SE/SW 1.0
(March 2001) In this 2001 historical presentation, Mike Phillips of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) provides an explanation of the current and future status of the CMMI Version 1.0 project.

CMMI and Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD), Version 1.02
(March 2001) This 2001 presentation provides guidance for the CMMI-SE/SW and IPPD, version 1.02, the predecessor of CMMI. It was delivered by Roger Bate, Diane Gibson, and Karen Richter at SEPG 2011.

Standard CMMI Assessment Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI): Current Status and Plans
(January 2001) This presentation provides an overview of SCAMPI from 2001.

The Rational Unified Process and the Capability Maturity Model - Integrated Systems/Software Engineering
(January 2001) This tutorial provides a mapping of the Rational Unified Process and CMMI.

Over, Under, Around, and Through: Using the CMMI Continuous and Staged Representations Together to Optimize Process Improvement
(January 2001) This presentation provides an overview of using both the staged and continuous representations of CMMI to implement process improvement.

Upgrading to CMMI at Bosch
(January 2001) This presentation provides a case study of a CMMI implementation at Robert Bosch GmbH from 2001.

Gadfly: An Approach to Architectural-Level System Comprehension, The
(March 1996) This paper describes the Gadfly, an approach for developing narrowly-focused, reusable domain models that can be integrated and (re)used to aid in the process of top-down system comprehension.

Case Study in Assessing the Maintainability of Large, Software-Intensive Systems, A
(March 1995) This paper presents a case study in assessing the maintainability of a large, software intensive system. The techniques used are described, and their strengths and weaknesses discussed.