The April 2026 Tech Talk announced the availability of the SEA Data Warehouse
Abstract
The Data Warehouse Working Group was initiated in September 2022, with the purpose of advancing the state of the practice and the art of software engineering by providing a source of high-quality empirical data for research and benchmarking, including:
- Creating a global warehouse of sanitized and aggregated data
- Distributing the data and helping people to consume it
- Publicizing and getting people interested in using the data
- Accepting ongoing data submissions and adding them to the warehouse
This presentation will announce the availability of that data. Our intent is to encourage people to use this data to improve the state of the practice. This includes areas such as benchmarking, planning, and research. This data has been carefully organized to answer a broad set of questions needed in all areas of software development. Because the data is so well defined, the data can be reused for additional questions with high confidence.
About the Presenters
Jeff Schwalb is a computer scientist and has been supporting Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) since 1984. He has over 20 years of experience developing and acquiring real-time embedded software systems for avionics, weapons, and range instrumentation systems. He also began collaborating with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), learning and applying CMM key practices, becoming a certified Personal Software Process℠ (PSP℠) instructor and then a certified Team Software Process℠ (TSP℠) coach. Over the last 25 years he has taught and consulted hundreds of scientists and engineers in various forms of personal engineering processes and coached dozens of projects in the launch and operations of team project planning and tracking.
Dr. Bill Nichols is a Principal Engineer in the Software Solutions Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he leads the Software Measurement and Analysis team. Before joining the SEI, Dr. Nichols earned a doctorate in physics from Carnegie Mellon University, after completing graduate work in particle physics. He later led a software development team at the Bettis Laboratory near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he developed and maintained nuclear engineering and scientific software for 14 years. He has more than 30 years of technical and management experience in the software engineering industry and has published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, IEEE Computer, and Physical Review Letters.
Julia Mullaney has been involved with software excellence since starting her career at IBM in 1988. At IBM, she was instrumental in process improvement efforts, having a major role in defining and implementing defect prevention, for which she won the IBM Quality Award. At the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Julia was a key contributor to the PSP℠ and TSP℠ through the development of training, certification, licensing, and applied research at leading software organizations. She was fortunate to take the first PSP class from her mentor, Watts Humphrey. Julia was chair for the IEEE CS/SEI Watts Humphrey Quality Award and sat on the IEEE CS Awards Committee.
David Tuma began his software career in the United States Air Force in 1994, where he was introduced to the high-maturity agile concepts in the Team Software Process. Impressed with TSP’s power and flexibility, he created (and continues to evolve) an open-source TSP toolset called the Process Dashboard, which has been used by tens of thousands of developers worldwide. He developed the Team Process Data Warehouse, upon which the SEA Data Warehouse was built. David values the collaboration with other members of the SEA as they seek opportunities to change the world of software engineering through broader adoption of high-maturity agile techniques.
Dr. Brad Hodgins is a computer scientist and has been supporting Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) for 36 years. He has over 20 years’ experience developing simulation and avionics software. He has spent the last 16 years as a project planning and tracking coach and instructor for the Performance Resource Team (PRT), actively coaching project teams in the development of high-quality products for on-time, on-budget delivery to the fleet.
Robert Bentall is a Software Delivery Manager at Leonardo in Luton, England. Previously, he was a Principal Software Engineer at Martin-Baker Aircraft Company, and a Senior Software Engineer at Schlumberger Oilfield UK PLC.
