[C-SPIN] Special Announcement:  San Diego SPIN Survey of Barriers and Accelerators

Dear CSPIN Members:

Attached is a survey from Stan Rifkin and Dr. Byron Fiman that will gather information on Software Process Improvement barriers and accelerators. 

Stan is a member of the San Diego SPIN. He worked at the SEI during the development of the original CMM.  During this time he authored the SEPG Guide.

As Stan says, this is should be an interesting survey as we all know how hard it is to implement process improvement in real life. 

Please respond to the survey in the next week as the survey will close at the end of February. If you participate in the survey the authors will share their early results with you. 

  Survey Link  http://c-spin.net/SurveySPIImplementationBarriers.htm

Regards,

Dr. Larry Dribin

Cell: 847-807-7390

-----Original Message-----

From: Stan Rifkin [mailto:sr@master-systems.com]

Subject: [Please respond to our survey on SPI implementation barriers &

accelerators]

Dear SPIN points of contact and colleagues:

As you know, the most challenging and difficult phase of the software process improvement (SPI) life cycle has always been implementation, putting best practices into actual practice. The best practices for the implementation of total quality management, lean sigma, or business process reengineering are well known, but implementation success is still quite difficult and uneven. As experienced and senior practitioners, we seek your help to understand the challenges and solutions to the implementation process. In exchange for your participation in a brief, on-line survey, we shall share our early results with you.

Dr. Byron Fiman and I have had a presentation accepted for SEPG North America 2009, "SPI Implementation Barriers: Then, Now, and Future Strategies." It is to be a comparison of a survey results we presented the last time the Software Engineering Process Group conference was in San Jose with this coming one. It tries to address the question of whether the pressing issues have changed for SPI implementation in the last 20-odd years.

Would you mind asking your SPIN members and colleagues to complete our 2009 survey, please? It is completely anonymous and takes only a few minutes. At the end we do ask for an e-mail address for those who would like a copy of the conference presentation of our results. The link to the survey is: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228RGRYAJWB

The survey will be open until the last day of February 2009. Thank you in advance for your positive consideration.

- Dr. Stan Rifkin, San Diego SPIN

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