Software Process Improvement’s Dirty Little Secrets
Robin Goldsmith
GoPro Management

Introduction:

Formal software improvement initiatives, such as Six Sigma and capability maturity model-fitting, often leave a significant but seldom-recognized gap that inadvertently can neutralize or even counteract much of the costly initiatives' benefits.  In this interactive presentation, Robin Goldsmith reveals how such high-overhead initiatives often lose sight of key weakest-link exceptions to their seemingly comprehensive practices for improving software processes. 

• Where high-overhead formal software process improvement initiatives do focus
• Key areas that such initiatives often overlook and thus defeat their purposes
• Methods to detect and address such oversight exceptions

Biography:

Robin Goldsmith, JD is internationally recognized as an authority on business engineering and software acquisition/development quality, testing, and productivity. He is a frequent speaker at leading conferences and formerly International Vice President of the Association for Systems Management. Robin is the author of the book:” Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success".