SMS Exemplar

Improvement Champion Issue 18 – Jan 2011

• Agile Systems Training
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Software Measurement
• Mythbusters. A new series of thought-provoking web-chats to coincide with the launch of our blog
• ITDA Roadmap to Improving Departmental Performance

Improvement Champion Issue 17 – Oct 2010

• SMS Partners with NCC
• Lean Enterprise Architecture: Making the Change
• SMIF is back
• Achieving Enterprise-Scale Agility with Lean: WEBINAR

Improvement Champion Issue 16 – July 2010

• How to Win Hearts & Minds for your Next Change Programme
• Reducing IT Costs : Improving IT Service Levels
• Components of a well-formed User Story
• Sizing User Stories with COSMIC
• Energizing CMMI: The Case for Real SPI

Improvement Champion Issue 15 – Jan 2010

• Lean Enterprise Architecture
• extreme Measurement
• CMMI for Services
• The CMMI, Innovation and Creativity

Improvement Champion Issue 14 – Sept 2009

• Agile Edge
• SMS Webinar: Outcomes and Open Source: How CIOs can delight the Board
• Effective Project Management
• Achieving Real Improvement – how to champion effective software process improvement

Improvement Champion Issue 13 – June 2009

• Systems thinking: consensus on the Darwinian approach to software process improvement
• Capability, maturity and effectiveness.
• Outcome Based Agreements

Improvement Champion Issue 12 – March 2009

• Improving Productivity
• How effective is your product development?
• Effective Metrics

Improvement Champion Issue 11 – 2008 Yearbook

Improvement Champion Issue 10 – Nov 2008

• Are all executives unethical?
• Knowledge-based management for Rightshifting performance
• Beyond agility:

Improvement Champion Issue 9 – August 2008

• Capers Jones: A Short History of LOC:
• UKSMA means business
• Enhancing Technology

Improvement Champion Issue 8 – May 2008

• Delivering Return on Investment from Software Process Improvement.
• IT Challenges
• You’re (back) fired!

Improvement Champion Issue 7 – Jan 2008

• Delivering Value from: Benchmarking
• Outsourcing
• Measurement for Automotive SPICE

Improvement Champion Issue 6 – Nov 2007

• Measuring Performance, Delivering Value
• Process Improvement & CMMI Forum
• SMIF
• FPA Public Training
• IT Spending Under Pressure
• itMPI Webinar programme

Improvement Champion Issue 5 – Sept 2007

• Trends in IT Management
• FSM Pilot Study
• Report on the ESEPG07
• FPA Public Training
• 6 events in software best practice
• Measuring Performance: Delivering Value

Improvement Champion Issue 4 – June 2007

• Managing Project Risk
• Thought Leadership Workshop report
• Lean Look to ESEPG 2007
• SEI’s Benchmarking Initiative
• Relative Sizing
• IFPUG 4.2 exam

Improvement Champion Issue 3 – March 2007

• Current Issues with Outsourcing
• Thought Leadership Workshop
• European SEPG 2007
• SEI’s Benchmarking Initiative
• Managing and reducing risk
• Practical Use of FPA
• Software Measurement and Improvement Forum Report: Delivering business value

Improvement Champion Issue 2 – Feb 2007

• SMS welcomes a new associate
• SMIF: Metrics for Accountants
• BCS: Award for COSMIC
• British SPIN
• CMMI v1.2

Improvement Champion Issue 1 – Oct 2006

• Outsourcing: Ensuring good governance
• Estimating Large, Complex programmes
• Making Software Measurement Valuable
• How fit are your processes
• BCS Award for COSMIC
• Join the ISBSG/COSMIC Benchmark study