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This talk is great for those are using using the CMMI, burned out from CMMI, or facing an appraisal soon

Agenda: CMMI
Basic CMMI premise - paper or results Common blind spots / hazards
- CM - physical audits
- MA - overdoing measurement/goal definitions or ignoring all of it
- PP - size estimation, risk at the team level
- PMC - tracking actual effort (really really) and size
- IPM - triggers for corrective action, more than 1 tailored suit
- Level 4 - is one metric enough? Stable processes, does the metrics guy "Do QPM?" alone
- Level 5 - the need for statistically stable processes, reducing variation, shifting the mean
- Overly focusing on every practice and PA - giving them equal weight

Appraisal Preparation (SCAMPI)
- Appraisal evidence (PIIDing) - what it needs to be, how to not get carried away
- Is time better spent on mock interviews and rehearing answers or implementing practices to run the business?

In 1990, Neil Potter and Mary Sakry founded The Process Group. They have helped organizations implement project management, estimation, requirements engineering, inspections, subcontract management and CMM / CMMI. She is currently an instructor for the SEI Introduction to CMMI course, and a certified High Maturity lead appraiser for the CMMI SCAMPI method. Mary was first trained by the SEI in process assessments in 1988/1989, and has continued to be authorized and use the SEI models and appraisal methods ever since.

Mary Sakry has been working in software development, project management and software process improvement since 1976. For 15 years she was a Project Manager and Software Engineer within Texas Instruments (TI) in Austin, Texas. In 1988, while employed by TI, Mary was a member of a corporate Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) and responsible for SEI CMM self-assessments across TI worldwide. She has an M.B.A. in Business Management from St. Edwards University and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.