Process Your Life

Kasse Initiatives CEO and Principal Consultant Tim Kasse (right) and Method Park CTO and Stages Architect Erich Meier (left) are combing their experience to significantly enhance Method Park's "Stages for CMMI" capability

The Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) Conference in San Jose is now a while back, so it is time for a little summary. The SEPG always has been the most important CMMI event. In these economic times, 900 participants are a pretty good number. As a result, the people that were there were very focussed and not “just looking around”. We had some very interesting talks and were able to make a number of exciting new contacts, especially because we launched our new process management system “Stages for CMMI“.

My personal highlight of the conference was  Tim Kasse. This guy really knows what is important about CMMI, systems engineering and process improvement in general. His tutorial was a blast! The SEI featured him on the conference newsletter and they knew why. We feel honored to cooperate with him. He helped us to improve “Stages for CMMI” a lot and he promised to do so in the future.

My favorite Tim Kasse quote, directly taken from a customer talk, is “I am not a tools guy. In fact, sometimes I really hate tools. But Stages is something that you should get, because it really helps”.

Our main topics were the introduction of “CMMI for Services” due to the large number of companies offering services today and “CMMI for Acquisition” for those companies seeking to find and manage suitable partners who offer critical services. These additional CMMI constellations now officially released by the SEI will greatly expand the customer base for CMMI beyond development and the upcoming interest in multimodel approaches. With more and more standards to be followed, the Stages multimodel compliance features are key to deal with the different CMMIs, ISO, Safety Standards and development models in parallel. Stages’ ability to break these standards into pieces and transform them into real world processes to be followed in day to day work boosts the process acceptance, brings fast ROI and helps people in their daily life. Because in the end, it’s all about people, not processes.

…and YES, it was not easy leaving California and going back to rainy and cold Germany again

Erich

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