Joint IEEE Computer Society and Huntsville SPIN Meeting, June 15, 2012 – Dr. Mark Paulk, “Considerations in Scrum Adoption”
Presentation: “Considerations in Scrum Adoption”
Scrum is a well-known agile method that has been widely adopted. It focuses on managing the project and the customer relationship via a backlog of work to be performed, Sprints to incrementally deliver the software, and Scrums to monitor progress daily. Scrum steers a software project to iteratively address the highest priority customer needs within budget and schedule constraints.
Agile methods such as Scrum are designed to fit evolving business environments and volatile requirements; this is a significant culture shift from traditional ways of building software that tend to focus on negotiating agreements and tracking progress against a formal requirements specification. There is always resistance to change. This presentation will discuss some of the sources of the resistance to Scrum, empirical data on their occurrence, and possible means for identifying false issues and alleviating legitimate concerns.
Meeting Details:
If you will attend, please RSVP that intent to Bob Robinson at robert.a.robinson5@ieee.org or Bob Berinato at Bob.Berinato@dynetics.com. In that RSVP, include your U.S. person status so that Dynetics can appropriately prepare for everyone’s visit to the facility.
Event: Luncheon Catered by Smokey’s Barbeque
Date: Friday, June 15th, 2012
Time: 11:30 am-1:00 pm
Location: Dynetics Solutions Complex, 1004 Explorer Blvd, Cummings Research Park, Huntsville AL 35806
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Mark C. Paulk, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Mark Paulk is a Senior Systems Scientist in the Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
From 2002 to 2010, Dr. Paulk worked with the IT Services Qualification Center investigating best practices for sourcing and service management. He is a co-author of The eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers.
From 1987 to 2002, Dr. Paulk was with the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon, where he led work on the Capability Maturity Model for Software. He was the lead author of The Capability Maturity Model: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process. Work related to the Software CMM included research into high maturity practices, statistical thinking as applied to software processes, and contributions to IEEE and ISO standards. He was co-project editor with Al Graydon of ISO/IEC 15504:2 (Process Assessment: Best Practices Guideline) from 1992-1995.
Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Paulk worked for System Development Corporation at the Ballistic Missile Defense Advanced Research Center in Huntsville, Alabama. His work centered on distributed, hard real-time systems.
Dr. Paulk’s personal research interests revolve around empirical methods, high maturity practices, statistical thinking, and agile methods.
Dr. Paulk received his PhD in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh; his MS in computer science from Vanderbilt University; his BS in mathematics and computer science from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Dr. Paulk is a Fellow of the ASQ, an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer, and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Dr. Mark C. Paulk
Institute for Software Research
Carnegie Mellon University
Wean Hall 5101
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
Tel: +1 (412) 268-5176 Fax: +1 (412) 268-5131
Email: Mark.Paulk@ieee.org –or– mcp@cs.cmu.edu
Home Page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mcp/