Speakers Bio
Russ Reeves is a software developer with ICF International’s Charleston office in the Trident Research Center. He has a long history working with tagging languages beginning with SGML for several companies including Kodak, Xerox and IBM. His semantic web experience includes projects in both the private and government sectors. He received CMMI training just over a year ago and is assisting ICFI with there move to CMMI L3.

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The meeting will start at 6:00 PM and the format is the first 1/2 hour for networking then the speaker’s presentation begins at 6:30. The meeting will be held at the SCRA facilities on International Blvd (near Charleston Airport) in the Henderson Building (main building in front, 2nd floor). Additional parking can be found in the rear of the complex. You are encouraged to forward this SPIN notice to others who are interested in attending this forum for the exchange of information on process improvement and the CMMI.

At this month’s SC-SPIN meeting we will have a drawing for a free one year membership to SEI. You must be present to win!

• ConferenceFlyer.pdf (0.480 MB)
• Ontology Overview.ppt (0.942 MB)
• OWL and CMMI.ppt (0.045 MB)

Business Process Management is an outstanding tool to achieve higher levels of process maturity and work product quality. Modus21 is using Business Process Management principles to control, enforce, and audit the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). The benefits and principles of this approach will be discussed and practical application examples will be presented. These will include a case study of Sikorsky Aircraft used Business Process Management Software (BPMS) to automate a support process, and examples of how BPMS could be used to support any organization's CMMI initiatives, both pre and post certification.

The meeting will start at 6:00 PM and the format is the first 1/2 hour for networking then the speaker’s presentation begins at 6:30. The meeting will be held at the SCRA facilities on International Blvd in the Henderson Building (main building in front, 2nd floor). Additional parking can be found in the rear of the complex. You are encouraged to forward this SPIN notice to others who are interested in attending this forum for the exchange of information on process improvement and the CMMI.

Peter Woodhull is President and co-founder of Modus21, LLC, a business and technology consulting firm that specializes in Business Process Management and Systems Interoperability. Peter has more than 10 years of experience in Information Technology, and has focused primarily on Business Process Management and Systems Interoperability since 2001. Peter has held senior positions at Blackbaud, Inc and Modulant, Inc. and his expertise in systems architecture and software development has been recognized by the Department of Defense.

• sc_spin.ppt (0.127 MB)

The most often asked question concerning process improvement using the CMMI is “Where do we start?” The response most given is “Look at OPF!” and “If you are going to maturity level 3 then also look at OPD.” Organizational Process Focus and Organizational Process Definition give guidance on setting up the infrastructure that organizations need to address process improvement using CMMI as the reference model.

The 26 July SC SPIN meeting will be a round table discussion of these two process areas. If you are getting ready to start your improvement effort, this is a meeting to attend as it will help you save time and dollars down the road.

Jeff Schwalb has been employed by Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) at China Lake, California since 1984 where he is now the national Team Software Process (TSP) lead. He spent the first ten years of his career developing software intensive real-time embedded range instrumentation systems. He got involved with process improvement in 1993, became a Personal Software Process instructor in 1995, then an observed TSP launch coach in 2001. He has since taught each of the TSP/PSP courses many times and has been involved in the TSP launch and re-launch of several projects across NAVAIR. He is now working with the SEI to extend TSP practices into other domains such as systems engineering and software acquisition. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from California State University Chico in 1986. Jeff has been awarded the 2007 SEI Member Representative Award which is based on the software community’s recognition of Jeff as an accomplished pioneer of principles and practices in software and systems engineering.

The meeting will start at 6:00 PM and the format is the first 1/2 hour for networking then the presentation begins at 6:30. The meeting will be held at the SCRA facilities on International Blvd in the Henderson Building (main building in front, 2nd floor). Additional parking can be found in the rear of the complex. You are encouraged to forward this SPIN notice to others who are interested in attending this forum for the exchange of information on process improvement and the CMMI.

As you may recall, we discussed the Requirements Management process area in a previous meeting, which evoked some excellent ideas about how to improve our abilities to gather customer's requirements. This coming discussion involving the Project Planning and Project Monitoring and Control process areas is equally promising.

Some other news is that the SC SPIN web site is now operational at www.scspin.net web site. (Thank You, Dr. Bradham of SCRA!)

The SPIN meeting format has the first 1/2 hour for networking followed by the speaker’s presentation beginning around 6:30. The meeting will be held at the SCRA facilities on International Blvd in the Henderson Building (main building in front, 2nd floor). Additional parking can be found in the rear of the complex. You are encouraged to forward this SC SPIN notice to others who are interested in attending this forum for the exchange of information on process improvement and the CMMI.

We look forward to seeing you on March 22. We are fortunate to have Dr. Gary Lunsford (SEI Certified Lead Appraiser and Instructor) as our guest speaker. The topic of Gary's presentation will be "Preparing for the SCAMPI." This topic is well suited for those who will be moving toward some level of maturity using the Staged Representation and need to understand what to expect from the SCAMPI.

The meeting will begin at 6:00 PM for networking and Gary's presentation begins at 6:30 PM. The meeting will be held at the SCRA facilities located at 5300 International Blvd in the Henderson Building (main building in front, 2nd floor). Additional parking can be found in the rear of the complex. You are encouraged to invite others who are interested in the exchange of information on process improvement and the CMMI to attend.

We look forward to seeing you on March 22. We are fortunate to have Dr. Gary Lunsford (SEI Certified Lead Appraiser and Instructor) as our guest speaker. The topic of Gary's presentation will be "Preparing for the SCAMPI." This topic is well suited for those who will be moving toward some level of maturity using the Staged Representation and need to understand what to expect from the SCAMPI.

The meeting will begin at 6:00 PM for networking and Gary's presentation begins at 6:30 PM. The meeting will be held at the SCRA facilities located at 5300 International Blvd in the Henderson Building (main building in front, 2nd floor). Additional parking can be found in the rear of the complex. You are encouraged to invite others who are interested in the exchange of information on process improvement and the CMMI to attend.