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	<link>http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com</link>
	<description>by Tim Kasse</description>
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		<title>Day 4 of SEPG 2010 – Wrapping it All Up &#8211; Tim Kasse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday’s presentations wrap up SEPG for 2010. Thursday is also a day where people get their tickets early to return home and miss out on some well prepared and informative presentations. This year’s choices will make it worth your while to stick around and lend our final speakers your ear.
Here are my picks for wrapping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com/2010/03/17/day-4-of-sepg-2010-%e2%80%93-wrapping-it-all-up-tim-kasse/</link>
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		<title>Day 3 of SEPG 2010 – A Day of Diversity &#8211; Tim Kasse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday promises to bring us a variety of opportunities to learn and share our process improvement experiences. It includes presentations on the Software Process and its future. It includes discussions on Agile techniques, tools, and effective teams. It will try to make sense of Six Sigma techniques and explain why conducting Peer Reviews is still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com/2010/03/17/day-3-of-sepg-2010-%e2%80%93-a-day-of-diversity-tim-kasse/</link>
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		<title>Day 2 of SEPG 2010 &#8211; Consider These Presentations – Tim Kasse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday starts the official first day of the SEPG conference and it promises to offer concrete information that you can think about and use when you return to your own organizations
Here are a few selections for Tuesday you may want to consider:

Keynote Panel – Process Improvement on a Regional Scale – Wan Peng Ng, Rafael [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com/2010/03/17/consider-these-presentations-on-day-2-of-sepg-2010-%e2%80%93-tim-kasse/</link>
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		<title>Day 1 of SEPG 2010 &#8211; The Most Intriguing Tutorials – Tim Kasse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will be attending the SEPG 2010 in Savannah this year and one of the reasons is the theme the SEI has chosen to build this world-important conference around.

The theme of this year’s SEPG is “Perform At a Higher Level” and it comes at a time in our country’s and world’s history where solid and higher level performance is needed on all fronts if companies are to be efficient and effective and turn our high quality products and services and keep their customers satisfied.

So with that theme in mind, I took a quick tour of this year’s program to see what would catch my eye and want me to definitely sit in on those presentations. My selections are by no means a reflection on the quality of those I will not mention, but they are ones that piqued my own interest and possibly will pique yours as well]]></description>
		<link>http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com/2010/03/17/the-most-intriguing-tutorials-on-day-1-of-sepg-2010-%e2%80%93-tim-kasse/</link>
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		<title>SPI Manifesto – And yes I am glad you asked, it is agile!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 elicitation of requirements to design [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com/2010/03/02/spi-manifesto-%e2%80%93-and-yes-i-am-glad-you-asked-it-is-agile/</link>
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		<title>Project Manager vs. Systems Engineer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“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” – Tim Kasse &#8211; 2004
After [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com/2009/07/19/project-manager-vs-systems-engineer/</link>
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		<title>Assessment to Improvement: What&#8217;s the right path?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 to take on too much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com/2009/05/07/assessment-to-improvement-what-is-the-right-path/</link>
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		<title>Change Management &#8211; The People Side of Process Improvement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At SEPG 2009 in San Jose, I presented a half-day tutorial titled &#8220;Change Mangement Tool Kit.&#8221;  The idea of &#8220;managing change&#8221; 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. What? I thought process improvement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com/2009/04/03/change-management-the-people-side-of-process-improvement/</link>
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		<title>Agile and CMMI Wars – We need to talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 model in 1970. It was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cmmiblog.methodpark.com/2009/03/12/agile-cmmi-wars-%e2%80%93-we-need-to-talk/</link>
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