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WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU MAKES YOU STRONGER:
MY PROCESS IMPROVEMENT LESSONS
LEARNEDVERSION 1.0E (ULTRA SMALL FORMAT, PREVIEW) – 11/5/2010
10th Annual National Defense Industrial Association
CMMI® Technology Conference and User Group
November 16, 2010
Denver, Colorado, USATrack 1: CMMI and Process Improvement
Session 11315, Chasm Creek 2:15-3:00 pm
Bill Smith, CEOLeading Edge Process Consultants LLC
www.CmmiTraining.com
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SNEAK
PREVIEW
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No, that wasn’t me.I have 0 tattoos…
…that I’ll admit to.
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Introduction
I’ve been involved in improvement initiatives dating all the way back to… …when I
had hair!
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Onetheme
hasemerged…
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“Out of life’s school of war: What does not destroy me,
makes me stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889. Often paraphrased as “What
doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
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Orto put a
more modern, less depressing
spin on it…
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“Next time you feel likeIt’s just one of those daysWhen you just can’t seem to winIf things don’t turn out the way you
plannedFigure something else outDon’t stay down, try again, yeah…
Everybody makes mistakes,Everybody has those days…
Nobody’s perfect!”
“Hannah Montana aka Miley Cyrus on the stage of Hannah Montana Tour,” Author: Mike Schmid from Hollywood CA. Photo in public domain, used here under the following license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
Hannah Montana“Nobody’s Perfect”
2007
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So that you can avoidsome of the mistakes
I’ve seenand sometimes even
made…
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I submit to you my…
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Introduction Process
ImprovementLessons Learned
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Lesson 10
SEPG member proposes 8 new measures…
Everyone agrees, except one guy (a PM) saying“no way”
Vote called, measures “adopted”
• Organization: ML 1, new to measurement except for the basics (e.g., cost)• Me: Newly appointed PI consultant, in my first SEPG meeting w/ them…
Background
Events
• Six months planning / trying to collect the measures
• All but 2 are eventually abandoned
• Frustration among projects, wasted time and money
Results
for REQM!
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Don’t Ignore the Naysayers;
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Lesson 10
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See also: “Conflict jump-starts the creative process,” Ikujiro Nonaka
NotesThat project manager was the voice of reality!Value alternative perspectives
Don’t “steamroll”; strive for consensus
Satisfy the WIFM for key stakeholders (“What’s In it For Me”)
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Bill SmithCMMI® Entertainer
I’ll be delivering this presentation along with CMMI in the Social
Media (for the Social-Media-Challenged!) at the NDIA CMMI
Conference on November 16.
I hope to see you there!