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Recent Trends in Process Improvement

Amsterdam, November 15 2012

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Agile & Lean Improvements

Process Improvement should

• be Continous and Focused

• Deliver Visible Results

• be Engrained in Agile and Lean

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CMMI Roadmaps

• Goal driven

• Assess and Deploy Process Areas

• Guide for CMMI Continuous

Improving IT for the Business

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Combining CMMI Models

• CMMI Acquisition, Development and Services

• Multidisciplinary

• Customer Focus

• Delivery Chain

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People over Processes

• Interfacing Agile Teams

• People-CMM to implement Agile

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Scrum Retrospectives

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Visible Results

• Progress

• Involvement

• Decisions

• Be an Example

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Getting People Involved

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Agile Process Improvement

Expected benefits:

• Collaboration PI team and stakeholders

• Deployment (over defining) processes

• Adopt to changes

• Incrementaly, ROI

• Lean to work Agile

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Golden Rules for PI

• Dare to share, early and frequently

• Result depends on team, not individuals

• The one who checks out a task is not

necessarily the one who has to finish it

• The one’s working on a task are the

right people

• You may critique anything,

but never criticize anyone

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More Information

�CMMI Roadmaps

�Combining CMMI Models

�Visible Process Improvement

�Business Focused Retrospectives

�Process Improvement, The Agile Way!

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