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Failure. Pragmatic Lessons Learned the Hard Way
The December 2023 Tech Talk will be presented by Rick Kelly
Past Presentations
Each post includes a link to the presentation for viewing and meeting minutes (if available).

Quality in Front – From a Mainframe Mentality to Agile
The November 2023 tech talk was presented by Dave McKenna

From Sprints to Marathons – Sustaining Speed to Value
The October 2023 tech talk was presented by David VanEpps

SEA 2023 Summit
The SEA 2023 Summit was held September 21st in Pittsburgh PA.

Software Excellence through the Agile High Velocity Development℠ Process
The August 2023 tech talk was presented by Steve Shook and Barti Perini

The Real Cost of Bad Software Quality in the U.S. in 2022
The July 2023 tech talk was presented by Herb Krasner

10 Key Things to be a Rocking Product Manager in an Agile World
The June 2023 tech talk was presented by César Duarte

Personal Reviews: How Fencing Helped Me Write Better Software
The May 2023 tech talk was presented by Dr. Bradley Hodgins

Making Digital Engineering Transformation Happen: MBSE is Just the Beginning
The April 2023 tech talk was presented by Will Walker and Jeff Schwalb

The 5 Keys to Crushing Technical Debt and Reclaiming the Joy in Engineering
The March 2023 tech talk was presented by Alan Willett and Julia Mullaney

Application of Statistical and Other Quantitative Techniques in Software
The February 2023 tech talk was presented by Stephen Shook

Implementing a Strategy for Excellence
The January 2023 tech talk was presented by Seemin Suleri

NAVAIR Process Dashboard Introduction Workshop
The December 2022 tech talk (half-day webinar) was presented by Dr. Bradley Hodgins

Accelerating Innovation by Transforming into a Digital Engineering Approach
The November 2022 tech talk was presented by Jeff Schwalb and Will Walker

Why Can’t Johnny Program Securely?
The October 2022 tech talk was presented by Robert Seacord

Team Process Integration: Half-Day Course
The September 2022 tech talk (half-day webinar) was presented by the NAVAIR Performance Resource Team

Rules and Submissions for the Watts Humphrey Process Achievement Award
The August 2022 tech talk was presented by Isabel Margarido.

How to Increase Team Performance : A Tale of Two Teams
The June 2022 tech talk was presented by Seemin Suleri

Designing and Launching Secure Software Development Degree Apprenticeships Partnering with Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Panel Session
The May 2022 tech talk was presented by Diana Elliott, Girish Seshagiri, and Nikunja Swain

SEA 2022 Virtual Summit
Software Excellence Alliance professionals from around the world met to celebrate our accomplishments from 2021 and to set the Alliance's 2022 direction for changing the world of software engineering.

The Digital Transformation Spiral Model
The March 2022 tech talk was presented by Dr. Barry Dwolatzky

Beyond the Agile Manifesto – Balancing the Features of Agile and Disciplined Methods
The February 2022 tech talk was presented by Jeff Schwalb

Changing the Engines without Landing the Plane
The January 2022 tech talk was presented by Robert Bentall

Being a Leader and Coder – A Survival Guide
The December 2021 tech talk was presented by Dylan Greiner

High-Maturity Scrum with the Process Dashboard
The October 2021 tech talk was presented by David Tuma

Training Coco – Agile Lessons with a Puppy
The September 2021 tech talk was presented by Jeff Pulcini

Making SAFe Better from the Bottom Up: Mixing Methods and Tools
The August 2021 Tech Talk was presented by Kimberly Wade

Empowering Virtual Working Groups for Success
The July 2021 Tech Talk was presented by the SEA Working Group Training WG

SAFe vs. Reality: How Will We Solve the Conflict?
The June 2021 tech talk was presented by Francisco Javier Ruvalcaba Moya

How Owning My Data Leveled Up My Life
The May 2021 Tech Talk was presented by Alex Powell

Why Is It So Hard to Do Easy Stuff?
The April 2021 tech talk was presented by Gerardo Lopez

Putting the “Sec” in DevSecOps… Quantified
The March 2021 Tech Talk was presented by Larry Maccherone

SEA 2021 Virtual Summit
Software Excellence Alliance professionals from around the world celebrated our accomplishments from 2020 and set our Alliance’s 2021 direction for changing the world of software engineering.

Quality’s Conceptual System: Fundamental Elements of the Creative Process
The January 2021 tech talk was presented by Victor Elias

Next-Gen Tools to Accelerate Individual and Team Performance
The December 2020 tech talk was presented by David Tuma

The Exceptional Engineer℠: Engineers that Drive Culture Change from Within
The November tech talk was presented by Alan Willett and Emilia Vanderwerf

Schedules are so 20th Century! Leveraging the TSP℠ and Agile Disconnect
The October 2020 tech talk was presented by David R. Webb

The End of a Myth, Programmer Productivity
The September 2020 tech talk was presented by Dr. William Nichols

How to Manage $30M and 150 Projects in 90 Minutes
The August 2020 Tech Talk was presented by Brad Hodgins

Cliff Diving Into TSP℠: How Watts Humphrey saved a third-year software engineering lab course in Rajasthan’s LNMIIT
Our July 2020 Tech Talk was presented by Dr. Philip Miller

Results of Applying Methods for Software Excellence – The Long View
Our June 2020 Tech Talk was presented by Stephen Shook

A Framework for Software Development Excellence
Our May 2020 Tech Talk was presented by Darryl Davis

7 Essential Elements to Lead With Speed
Our April Tech Talk was presented by Alan Willett

Process Dashboard Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks
The March 2020 tech talk was presented by David Tuma

Agile Software Development
The February 2020 tech talk was a panel presentation by Darryl Davis, David Webb, and Scott Pavetti
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