Speaker Profile
Jennifer Dietrich, Program Manager
Southwest Research Institute
About
Jennie Dietrich, PMP, is a Program Manager for Defense & Intelligence Solutions Division of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. Jennie serves as the PM for a multi-million dollar project for the USG. Jennie also serves as the Division Software CM Manager and the division CMMI Lead.
Jennie has successfully lead the Division through 11 years of CMMI Appraisals and worked closely with the senior management team to complete a CMMI-DEV Evaluation in preparation for a CMMI-DEV V2.1 Benchmark in 2020.
Jennie has a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. She worked for IBM for 15 years prior to starting with SwRI in 2006.
SPEAKER PRESENTATION
Conference Track: CMMI Adoption – V2.0 Experiences
CMMI-DEV V2.0 at Level 3 seems like a small change from CMMI-DEV V1.3 at Level 3. We certainly thought we had all our bases well covered. This presentation will discuss how our group at SwRI went from a very successful, fully implemented, all green SCAMPI A Appraisal in 2017 to a “we thought we had it covered” multi-colored Evaluation Appraisal in 2019. We will show our before, our after and the method we used to transition from V1.3 to V2.1 in under 1 year. We still have work to do and will share the efforts we are taking to implement the improvements in time for our scheduled 2020 Benchmark Appraisal to maintain our CMMI-DEV Level 3 Appraisal.