Simple Ideas for Process Improvement

Agility is a big buzzword these days; unfortunately, so are the 'other' process improvement methodologies that often get the attention of upper management (ISO, RUP, and CMMi to name a few). There are ways to avoid the methodology wars and introduce the ideas that will improve the way you do things.

In this presentation we will take a whirlwind tour through a bunch of different process improvement methodologies, compare and contrast some of the ideas, and find some common threads. We will look at what kinds of things an individual can do to improve things, what you can do with buy-in from your team, and how to get that support.

If you can embrace agile in your workplace, these are the ideas you can hit the ground running with. If not, these are the ideas you can 'wrap' in the other process buzzwords to get support from management, effectively getting your 'process' cake and eating it too.

Bring your real-world problems to this talk, and we'll see if we can figure out a way to deal with them.

About David Bock

David Bock is a Principal Consultant at CodeSherpas, a company he founded in 2007. Mr. Bock is also the President of the Northern Virginia Java Users Group, the Editor of O'Reilly's OnJava.com website, and a frequent speaker on technology in venues such as the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposiums.

In January 2006, Mr. Bock was honored by being awarded the title of Java Champion by a panel of esteemed leaders in the Java Community in a program sponsored by Sun. There are approximately 100 active Java Champions worldwide.

David has also served on several JCP panels, including the Specification of the Java 6 Platform and the upcoming Java Module System.

In addition to his public speaking and training activities, Mr. Bock actively consults as a software engineer, project manager, and team mentor for commercial and government clients.

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