SeaSpin

They teach you a lot of great things in software engineering / computer science classes, but there are a few things they don't. Steve Tockey shares the three things that really matter that they don't...

Expert advice says that management support is critical to process improvement success. How to you get that support? How do you lead process improvement from the ground level? Construx’s Earl Beede will...

Abstract: What do you say when a stakeholder asks, "How's it going?" If you have a pile of test cases on your desk, it may be enough to say, "I ran 35% of these tests today," or...

Advancing the Agile Enterprise

More and more teams find themselves working in an incredibly chaotic environment. How the team reacts to the stimuli in that environment can mean the difference between success and failure. Discovering...

In this session, Jeff Levinson walked us through an example business question, "How can we turn around bug fixes faster?" We went through a simple approach to choosing metrics to break down the...

Data-Driven, Experiential SPI So much SPI is evangelism, attempting to impose the one true way from outside. That tends to fail, and creates at best compliance. Process improvement that works treats SPI...

by Steve Tockey, Construx Software A Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) is driven with a single, clear-cut goal in mind: change an organization in a way that improves that organization's ability...

by Jennifer Shettleroe, VP of Engineering at AttachmateWRQ In 2002 the software development arm of Attachmate Corporation was struggling to balance a large number of products and projects against the demands...

by Stacey Dickinson, Solutions View, Inc. Anyone at any level of an organization who depends on other teams (or individuals) to complete work has encountered many challenges. Effective cross group collaboration...