How to Use the People CMM to Create Effective Managers
(November 2009) As the world moves toward a knowledge-based economy, the role of an organization’s workforce, the “knowledge worker”, becomes a critical component in organization success and a source of competitive advantage. The SEI’s People Capability Maturity Model® (P-CMM®) provides a roadmap for continuously improving the capability of an organization’s workforce.

Love and Marriage: Why CMMI and Agile Need Each Other
(October 2009) Together, Agile and CMMI complete each others' capabilities and can lead to fast, affordable, visible, and long-term benefits. Building on the SEI technical report CMMI or Agile: Why Not Embrace Both!

The Survivability Analysis Framework (SAF)
(October 2009) This framework was developed to address the following research questions: * How can mission survivability be maintained as interoperability of systems increases? * How can operational impacts (such as information security) be tied to technology changes in operational mission execution?

How to Effectively Evaluate Software Architecture and Identify Risks
(September 2009) In this webinar, Felix Bachmann discusses how using the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) – practical and proven architecture-centric evaluation techniques – can identify risks early in the life cycle. The SEI ATAM is used widely in many different settings. The ATAM is a tested process that has been used in many evaluations over the past ten or more years. If executed as defined, good results can almost be guaranteed.

Take a Tour of the New SEI Website
(August 2009) On August 18th, the SEI hosted a webinar to familiarize users with the new SEI site, released at the end of August. Janet Rex, SEI marketing manager, and Gary Snodgrass, manager of web communication, provided a preview of the features of the new site. Learn firsthand how to access SEI technical reports, presentations

Secure Coding
(August 2009) Led by Robert Seacord, the Secure Coding Initiative (SCI) within CERT works with software developers and software development organizations to eliminate vulnerabilities resulting from coding errors before software becomes operational. SCI is developing secure coding standards for commonly used programming languages such as C, C++, and Java. These standards can be used to improve and assess the security and overall quality of software through training, automated analysis, code review, and other processes.

A Practical Approach for Managing Risk
(June 2009) Most programs would benefit by improving, or in some cases replacing, their current risk management practices. The SEI Mission Success in Complex Environments (MSCE) project team develops practical and innovative methods and tools for measuring, assessing, and managing program risks.

SQUARE Up Your Security Requirements Engineering with SQUARE
(May 2009) Through the SQUARE project, CERT researchers have developed an end-to-end process for security requirements engineering to help organizations build security into the early stages of the production life cycle.

A Practical Approach for Building CMMI Process Performance Models
(April 2009) This webinar targets individuals who will be developing and using process performance models as part of an overall CMMI High Maturity improvement framework.

SEI Webinar Special Event: The Age of the Smart Grid is Here
(March 2009) On March 30, 2009 at 11 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, IBM and Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) formally launched a framework which provides utilities with a roadmap through their smart grid transformation - from technological to regulatory to organizational.

SMART: Analyzing the Feasibility of Migrating Legacy Systems to SOA Environments
(March 2009) Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become an increasingly popular mechanism for achieving interoperability between systems. Because it has characteristics of loose coupling, published interfaces, and a standard communication model, SOA enables existing legacy systems to expose their functionality as services, presumably without making significant changes to the legacy systems.

Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures, The
(March 2009) To be successful, every system needs a good architecture and that requires the use of a good architecture engineering method. However, systems vary greatly in size, complexity, criticality, domain, operational dependence on other systems, the technology used and its diversity, requirements volatility, required quality characteristics and attributes, and volatility of technology and component parts.

CMMI v1.2 and Beyond
(February 2009) The presenters describe the continued updates of CMMI to better address key elements such as acquisition and services.

CMMI Version 1.3 Product Suite
(February 2009) In this webinar session, Mike Konrad, manager of the CMMI Model Team and CMMI Chief Architect, and Rusty Young, manager of the SCAMPI Appraisal Team, will discuss CMMI Version 1.3.

Recursion and Iteration of CMMI Project Management Practices
(February 2009) This presentation will examine the project management practices from the perspective of both recursion and iteration.

Exploring Enterprise, System of Systems, and System and Software Architectures
(January 2009) In this webinar, we present our findings from a U.S. Army workshop on architecture that was held at the SEI in September of 2008, under the auspices of the Army Strategic Software Improvement Program (ASSIP).

Process Improvement at the Edges
(December 2008) Process improvement is challenging “at the edge,” especially for very small organizations and in multi-organization collaborations common in systems-of-systems settings. At both of these edges, there are challenges. Some of these are different, but some are surprisingly similar.

Identifying Program Risks
(December 2008) In this webinar, we look at group processes at the work group level (development team, IPT, small project) for identifying and documenting risks.

CMMI-Agile
(November 2008) Why the discord between Agile and CMMI camps? The purpose of this talk is to clarify why the discord need not exist and to inform the software community about how agile methods and CMMI can dramatically improve business performance when properly used together.

Using the Team Software Process to Improve Performance
(November 2008) Most process improvement initiatives fail. What makes TSP different? In this presentation, Tim explains what TSP is and how it can relate to CMMI.

The Measurement and Analysis Infrastructure Diagnostic, Creating a Foundation for Effective Measurement and Analysis
(October 2008) The Measurement and Analysis Infrastructure Diagnostic is a criteria-based approach for evaluating an organization’s measurement and analysis infrastructure. The method draws upon standards, best practices, and techniques from software engineering and process improvement

CMMI on the Web
(September 2008) With an abundance of information available on CMMI, this webinar clarifies what is available online for organizations starting and maintaining a CMMI-based process improvement initiative.

CERT Resiliency Engineering Framework (now CERT Resiliency Management Model)
(September 2008) This session demonstrates the CERT Resiliency Engineering Framework (REF) as a foundational model that provides a structure from which an organization can systematically identify its current capabilities and level of security effectiveness, assess resiliency targets and goals, and build a road map for continuous improvement.

A Jumpstart Method for Business Goals and Project Objectives Supporting CMMI High Maturity
(August 2008) This webinar discusses the mechanics of one approach to jumpstart a business goal and objective activity such that the resulting statements readily support the planning of statistical management and process performance modeling.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
(August 2008) This presentation provides an overview of SOA (a development paradigm) and explain the implications that SOA adoption has on the processes used to develop service-oriented systems.

Workforce Issues of the 21st Century, the People CMM to the Rescue
(July 2008) This presentation opens with a discussion of workforce issues that organizations are currently experiencing, potential side effects, and how these issues can affect performance and retention.

Process Improvement in Multi-Model Environments (PrIME)
(July 2008) In this presentation, currently available strategic and tactical methods for multi-model improvement are presented.