Working Groups
Active Working Groups
SEA working groups are short-term teams formed to address specific needs, problems, or issues. The various working groups are the primary mechanism(s) by which the SEA accomplishes real results, through setting measurable goals and tracking progress towards meeting defined milestones.
Data Warehouse Working Group
Purpose: To advance the state of the practice and state of the art of software engineering by providing a warehouse of high-quality, empirical data...
Community Networking & Membership
Purpose: Support the passionate expansion of our alliance through growth and outreach. Cultivate a strategy for outreach and growth through...
Next-Gen Tooling
Purpose: Guide the development of tools to support the evolving needs of current and future practitioners of TSP, and to lower barriers to adoption...
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Completed Working Groups
Working Group Training
Purpose: Foster the effective collaboration of working group members in our alliance. Proposed Near-Term Goals: Develop working group training for...
New Content Creation
Purpose: To innovate new ideas, or refresh old good ideas, to promote excellence in the creation of software. Example Activities/Goals/Outputs:...
SEA Certification
Purpose: Create plans for the transition of historical PSP/TSP certification programs from the SEI to the SEA. Participants: Marsha Pomeroy-Huff...
Membership & Networking
Purpose: To identify and recruit new members for the SEA community, and to establish channels for SEA to network with other groups that are...
Branding
Purpose: To create a look and feel for SEA materials that is compatible with the SEA credo. Proposed Near-term Goals: SEA Logo SEA PowerPoint...
Contact & Awareness
Purpose: Passionate expansion of our CoP "up and out" to acquire impact and longevity, through awareness of our contribution to great (software)...
Define Principles of T(S)P Family
Purpose: What makes the TSP℠ the TSP? Create a high-level list of key PSP/TSP methods and the values they provide, along with principles, practices,...
TSP℠ Adoption Root Causes
Purpose: Interview organizations that are still using TSP℠, those that are no longer using TSP, and those that never started. The purpose is to...
Website
Purpose: Maintain, improve, and extend the SEA website Proposed Near-term Goals: Top interest: curate resources on the website, especially course...
TSP℠ Decomposition
Purpose: Break TSP℠ apart into a set of distinct practices and behaviors, to inform the development of incremental introduction strategies, new...
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