http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com by Tim Kasse Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:11:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Process defines how a business does business and may include a set of processes such as: Software Engineering processes Hardware Engineering processes Systems Engineering processes Manufacturing processes Financial processes Human Resources processes Legal processes ……….. Process helps to establish the business culture and then sets guidelines and expectations. Process can be viewed as a methodology that is applied from ... http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com/2010/03/02/spi-manifesto-%e2%80%93-and-yes-i-am-glad-you-asked-it-is-agile/ “The roles of the Project Manager and the Systems Engineer are often combined and imposed on the already overloaded Project Manager. This is encouraged by contracts that do not understand the criticality of systems engineering and do not recognize the need for both a Project Manager and a Systems Engineer” ... http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com/2009/07/19/project-manager-vs-systems-engineer/ Is an assessment really the most appropriate step in getting an organization’s process improvement initiative started? One of the more important steps in starting a process improvement initiative is to determine the appropriate tasking and the scope of the process improvement program. There is great temptation for an organization to attempt ... http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com/2009/05/07/assessment-to-improvement-what-is-the-right-path/ At SEPG 2009 in San Jose, I presented a half-day tutorial titled "Change Mangement Tool Kit."  The idea of "managing change" may be a lot harder than it sounds, thus the idea of developing and evolving a change management tool kit to help people and organizations in their change efforts. ... http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com/2009/04/03/change-management-the-people-side-of-process-improvement/ I have ignored the AGILE and CMMI wars for many years and have forced myself into the fray in the past year. If you are taking one side or the other, you have little knowledge of history and probable less history of Systems Engineering. DR. Win Royce developed the Waterfall ... http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com/2009/03/12/agile-cmmi-wars-%e2%80%93-we-need-to-talk/