Hi and welcome to my
WikiHomePage! (Yes,
GirlsDoWiki :)
I have over 20 years experience in the full software development life cycle, including real-time software development; graphical, analytical, and database software systems; configuration management; people and project management; sustaining software and hardware; integration and test; and CMM-based process improvement. I've worked in a variety of industries, and am now a Senior Consultant in Corporate Research at ABB (
http://www.abb.com) in the
NorthCarolinaTriangleArea. My group's purpose is to provide business-goal-driven improvement guidance to ABB business units in the Americas who develop software systems.
My personal focus is on supporting
AgileTeams, and I've created a website dedicated to them (
http://www.agileteams.com). As far as I know, I was the first person ever to become both a PSP (
PersonalSoftwareProcess) Instructor (see
PspInstructor)/ TSP (
TeamSoftwareProcess) Launch Coach (see
TspLaunchCoach) and a Certified
ScrumMaster (see
ScrumMasterCertification.) I attend AgileRTP meeting whenever my travel schedule permits.
I believe in
MethodologicalPluralism over
MethodologicalPurity: there is
NoSilverBullet. If I were still primarily a developer (like my brother,
PaulSmiley, and my brother-in-law, Jim), I would want to have a broad collection of good tools in my toolbox; and I consider methodologies and processes such as PSP/TSP and agile to be 'tools' in the same way that {programming languages, design methods, databases ...} are.
I would love to hear from people with similar interests - please visit the
AgileAndTspDiscussion or
SixSigmaDiscussion pages and share your thoughts! (Thanks to
AlexChapman for his early encouraging feedback on one of my abstracts.) Also, see discussion group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileteams .
My detailed biography, with a list of active research projects, is now maintained online at
http://karen.agileteams.com. A quick reference to my web identity can be found via
http://claimid.com/karen-smiley .
I can be reached at:
karen at
agileteams dot
com
KarenSmiley -- August 14, 2003 (refactored to
http://www.agileteams.com/aboutKJS.html on Nov. 30, 2003; claimID reference added 31 Jan 2007; substituted new blog URL Nov. 11, 2008)
And yes, "Smiley" is my
RealName. I use
SmileyFaces for both fun
and signature purposes.
You've got mail!
Karen, I tracked you down as I am trying to develop an understanding of
InformationTechnologyGovernance and see that you created the changes in S
oftwareEngineeringInstitute. I have two short questions:
BTW if you cannot edit on this site suggest you visit
MeatBall and temporarily use
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiWikiWeb --
DavidLiu 31Mar05
Hi David - sorry for the delay in responding to your questions:
- 1) I was/am unfamiliar with CapabilitySecurityModel and would have to learn more about it to have a lot of confidence in my answer, but for now I would guess no, there is probably no connection with the CMM/CMMI
- 2) For ChangeManagement, you could try out CM Crossroads. At SEPG this year, there was some vendor activity around creation of a BusinessDevelopmentMaturityModel - a Google search might find you something of interest on StrategicManagement. (I'm assuming you've already searched groups.yahoo.com for those topics.)
Good luck! -- Karen :) 14Dec05
9/30/2003: New discussion group created -
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agileteams
Just send email to
mailto:[email protected] to join!
10/25/2003: Preliminary draft of
http://www.agileteams.com put online. Check out our Publications area for updated postings of research papers and presentations.
11/19/2003: Updated to reflect
ScrumMaster certification and related activities.
11/30/2003: Refactored to reference my CV at
http://www.agileteams.com/aboutKJS.html.
08/17/2004: I'm now a PhD student in Computer Science at
NorthCarolinaStateUniversity, exploring thesis ideas relating to
MeasuringAgileTeams and
CoachingAgileTeams. Suggestions welcome!!
11/11/2008: PhD on hold; partial shift in focus towards requirements engineering and software architecture; still highly interested in agile and lean.
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