Apr 1
2013
By Douglas C. Schmidt
Principal Researcher
In
launching the SEI blog two years ago, one of our top priorities was to
advance the scope and impact of SEI research and development projects,
while increasing the visibility of the work by SEI technologists who
staff these projects. After 114 posts, and 72,608 visits from readers of
our blog, this post reflects on some highlights from the last two years
and gives our readers a preview of posts to come.
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Mar 18
2013
Second in a Series on Readiness Fit Analysis for Adoption of Agile Methods
By Suzanne Miller
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Acquisition Support Program
The adoption of new practices, such as agile
or any new practice for that matter, is a task that is best undertaken
with both eyes open. There are often disconnects between the adopting
organization’s current practice and culture and the new practices being
adopted. This posting is the second installment in a series on Readiness & Fit Analysis (RFA),
which is a model and method for understanding risks when contemplating
or embarking on the adoption of new practices, in this case agile
methods. The RFA method helps organizations understand the barriers and
enablers to successful adoption that are present when an analysis is
performed. The first post in this series outlined the principles of RFA and described the Acquisition Support Program’s
work in extending RFA to support profiling and adoption risk
identification to organizations that are adopting agile methods. This
blog post continues the discussion with a more in-depth dive into one
more of the six RFA categories that we have identified.
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Jan 7
2013
First in a Series
By Bill Scherlis
Chief Technology Officer, Acting
The Department of Defense (DoD) has become deeply and fundamentally reliant on software. As a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC),
the SEI is chartered to work with the DoD to meet the challenges of
designing, producing, assuring, and evolving software-reliant systems in
an affordable and dependable manner. This blog post—the first in a
multi-part series—outlines key elements of the forthcoming SEI Strategic
Research Plan that addresses these challenges through research and
acquisition support and collaboration with DoD, other federal agencies,
industry, and academia.
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Nov 26
2012
By Douglas C. Schmidt
Principal Researcher
As
part of an ongoing effort to keep you informed about our latest work,
I'd like to let you know about some recently published SEI technical
reports and notes. These reports highlight the latest work of SEI
technologists in information assurance and agile, the Team Software Process (TSP), CERT secure coding standards, resource allocation, fuzzing, cloud computing interoperability, and cloud computing at the tactical edge.
This post includes a listing of each report, author(s), and links where
the published reports can be accessed on the SEI website.
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Oct 8
2012
By Suzanne Miller,
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Acquisition Support Program
All
software engineering and management practices are based on cultural and
social assumptions. When adopting new practices, leaders often find
mismatches between those assumptions and the realities within their
organizations. The SEI has an analysis method called Readiness and Fit
Analysis (RFA) that allows the profiling of a set of practices to
understand their cultural assumptions and then to use the profile to
support an organization in understanding its fit with the practices’
cultural assumptions. RFA has been used for multiple technologies and
sets of practices, most notably for adoption of CMMI practices. The method for using RFA and the profile that supports CMMI for Development adoption is found in Chapter 12 of CMMI Survival Guide: Just Enough Process Improvement. This blog post discusses a brief summary of the principles behind RFA and describes the SEI Acquisition Support Program’s
work in extending RFA to support profiling and adoption risk
identification for Department of Defense (DoD) and other
highly-regulated organizations that are considering or are in the middle
of adopting agile methods.
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