Scrum and CMMI Level 5: The Magic Potion for Code Warriors

CTO/VP of Engineering or VP of Object Technology at 9 software companies since 1983. Three were startups. Cofounded two of them. Conceived the Scrum Agile development process in four of them and implemented Scrum companywide in five of them. Currently doing consulting engagements for Scrum training, certification, assessment, and team motivation in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. Well known as the Co-Creator of the Scrum Agile Development Process which influenced the design of the other leading Agile process in the U.S., i.e. eXtreme Programming (XP). With over 10000 Certified ScrumMasters, Scrum is now deployed on projects worldwide in some of the largest (and smallest) companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Siemens, SAP, Fidelity, British Telecom, the BBC, etc. Scrum is a team organization process that brings focus, clarity, and enthusiasm to any project team in any domain. Distinguished Graduate of the U..S. Military Academy and Top Gun USAF RF4C Phantom Aircraft Commander with 100 missions over North Vietnam. Advanced degrees from Stanford University and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Past Secretary of the ANSI X3H7 Object Information Management Technical Committee, and liaison to the X3H2 SQL Database Committee. Chair of the Joint Committee of X3H7/X3H2 and ODMG (Object Database Management Group). Object Databases, Easel Corporation, VMARK Software, IDX Systems Corporation, and PatientKeeper representative to the Object Management Group and a former board member of the Smalltalk Industry Council. Chair, OOPSLA 1995-2000 Workshops on Business Object Component Implementation and Design. Facilitated research into object-oriented architectures for enterprise component systems.

Carsten Ruseng Jakobsen is a Project Manager at Systematic Software Engineering A/S an independent software and systems company focusing on complex and critical IT solutions within information and communication systems. Since September 2005 Carsten has been responsible for implementing Lean and Lean Software Development in Systematic. Carsten has during his 8½ year at Systematic actively contributed to Systematic’s journey towards a successful CMMI level 5 appraisal in November 2005 through the projects he has managed. He has also contributed as part of the central software process improvement (SPI) team at Systematic where he has been responsible for designing and implementing a measurement program compliant with CMM level 3, and recently to integrate agile methods like Scrum and story based early testing into existing procedures in a way where CMMI level 5 compliance is maintained. Carsten is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Scrummaster.