Workshop
How to combine CMMI and Agile in real-life projects to optimize your engineering processes

In this workshop, you will learn fundamental concepts about CMMI and Agile that most people don’t realize exist. Without these concepts, bringing CMMI and Agile together is very challenging. Armed with this important information, you will be able to take advantage of both CMMI and Agile in ways that most organizations do not. This workshop builds on the keynote “Love and Marriage: Why CMMI and Agile Need Each Other”. You will understand what CMMI does and doesn’t accomplish, and, what Agile does and doesn’t accomplish, so that together, they are more relevant to your work and more powerful to your business. Real examples from real projects will be used to help participants immediately apply the ideas presented in the workshop.

Duration: 2 hours

Workshop is free for conference participants, registration required.

Hillel Glazer

Hillel Glazer has been working in process improvement since his first job out of college. He is one of the few CMMI High Maturity Lead Appraisers and CMMI Instructors working with agile teams, and he’s an SEI Visiting Scientist expanding the use of CMMI for Services and working to align CMMI for Development v1.3 with agile methods. Hillel is the lead author on the SEI’s first-ever official publication addressing agile development. His diverse experience base including aerospace/defense and systems engineering, large and small consulting practices, Federal agencies, dot-com operations and financial systems support is probably what gave him the necessary perspective to pioneer how to bring CMMI and Agile together as far back as his 2001 CrossTalk article highlighting the compatibilities of (then) CMM and XP. He has a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace and a Masters in Technology Management and lives in Baltimore with his fabulous wife and four amazing children.