Noted software experts speaks at Lab Jan. 22

One of the nation's foremost experts on software engineering will speak at a Laboratory colloquium at 10 a.m.. Thursday, Jan. 22, in the J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center, Room 207, at Technical Area 3.

Watts Humphrey, from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, will talk about the Integrated Capability Maturity Model for continuous improvement and about software process improvement. The talk is hosted jointly by the Laboratory's Chief Information Officer, Ray Neff, and by James Peery, deputy associate director for Weapons Physics-Advanced Simulation and Computing, or ASCI.

The Capability Maturity Model - as well as the Personal Software Process and Team Software Process - all developed by Humphrey, provide guidance to organizations that have resulted in quality improvements of five to 10 times and productivity increases greater than 100 percent.

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