PROCESS DESIGNED FOR PRODUCTIVITY THE FOCUS OF CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 17, 2005
CONTACT:Entinex

11/17/05, DENVER.   The need for processes designed with the process user in mind was highlighted here at this week's 5th Anuual CMMI Technology Conference and User Group event organized by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA).  This year marked the first where an entire track of the conference was dedicated to CMMI in the context of "Lean", "Agile", and "Six Sigma" implementations.

Traditional development and management techniques in software have poorly addressed the needs of the developers and project participants.  Routinely, processes intended to provide management with visibility into the inner-workings of development, and to afford the ability to improve upon them have been super-imposed onto existing practices.  This super-imposition has come at a cost of productivity as well as returned little actual benefit for improvement purposes, says Hillel Glazer, Principal & CEO of Entinex, Inc., who presented a re-vamped Process Discipline in the Information Age to about 50 of the conference's attendees.

The presentation included a challenge for process improvement professionals to design process improvement activities into existing activities rather than create a layer of "overhead" that doesn't add value and annoys developers.  One such design for a process architecture was shown to the assembled conference-goers along with a case where the architecture was successfully implemented with an organization using Scrum development practices.

"The key" Glazer noted, "to successful process design is to look for those things that developers are already doing to avoid specific types of risk." Most likely, successful organizations are already avoiding risks.  Process improvement activities should take advantage of these naturally occurring activities, and project participants are more likely to adopt them for the long-run.

About Entinex, Inc.
Branded as the technology strategy company, Entinex, Inc. is the software process improvement expert for small-to-medium organizations.  Helping them get from estimates to actuals predictably, profitably, consistently.  And in doing that, Entinex clients are improving the consistency and predictability of delivering on their customers' expectations, on time and on budget.  Established in 2001, Entinex’s capabilities draw on over 17 years of experience in engineering, consulting, developing, deploying, and implementing technology.  Entinex is centrally located between Baltimore and Washington with easy access throughout the region and has experience and served clients throughout the B/W region, out-of-state, and internationally.

CMMI is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University.

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