Completed Working Group | Software Excellence Alliance

Purpose: Foster the effective collaboration of working group members in our alliance.

Proposed Near-Term Goals:

Develop working group training for using Google Docs & Google Groups, capturing effective meeting minutes, tracking and reporting status, etc.
Provide this training to all current and new SEA working group members.

Participants: Julia Mullaney (Leader) Rosalba Aguilar, Steve Shook, Mary Walker, honorary member David Tuma

sea-wg-training-wg@googlegroups.com

2021 Final Report

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:

Create a community with engineers from academia and industry, interested in taking the risk to innovate the manner we develop software today, challenging the level of excellence we are able to achieve.
Consolidate a Community of people and organizations egoless willing to cooperatively create knowledge and share that knowledge with others people and organizations willing to do the same, in the end, the goal is to develop a very competitive community capable of providing an enormous value to the need of Trustworthy System Software.
To be open to a wide range of different possibilities to improve.

Participants: Gerardo Lopez (Leader), Miguel Guajarado

Useful Links:

sea-content-creation-wg@googlegroups.com

Year-End Report

SEA Certification

Purpose: Create plans for the transition of historical PSP/TSP certification programs from the SEI to the SEA.

Participants: Marsha Pomeroy-Huff (Leader), Blanca Gil, Bill Nichols, Yoshihiro Akiyama, Jeff Schwalb, Fernando Jaimes Pastrana, Julia Mullaney

Useful Links:

sea-website-social-media-wg@googlegroups.com

Final Report

Purpose: To identify and recruit new members for the SEA community, and to establish channels for SEA to network with other groups that are interested in software excellence / best practices (SPINs, Agile community, etc.)

Proposed Near-term Goals:

Grow membership to 40-60 persons by end of 2020

Define the membership population and collect demographics on members (including multi-discipline & millennials)
Create a membership list with members’ areas of expertise, demographics, and email contact info
Increase active members (involvement) by 50%
Conduct a membership needs survey and generate prioritized list (of needs)
Reach out to SPINs and others as an opportunity for growth; potentially offer to help with SPIN coordination

Participants: Marsha Pomeroy-Huff (lead), Julia Mullaney, Alan Willett, Héctor Joel González Santos

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Final Report

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 Template

Participants: David Stein (lead), Marsha Pomeroy-Huff, Julia Mullaney, Fernando Jaimes

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Contact & Awareness

Purpose: Passionate expansion of our CoP “up and out” to acquire impact and longevity, through awareness of our contribution to great (software) engineering methods, quality, metrics, and tools

Participants: Jeff Schwalb (lead), Julia Mullaney, William Nichols, David Stein

Proposed Near-term Goals:

Identify a new name for our methodology

Develop materials to present ourselves (speeches, presentations, training, etc)

Support project teams throughout the Agile community so they will deliver Quality Systems on Schedule and within Cost

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