Speaker Profile
About
Michael West is a life-long practitioner of process and performance improvement. Since founding the consulting firm NSPI in 2002, Michael has helped numerous client organizations in many sectors of the economy achieve their performance improvement goals. Michael is the author of two books on performance improvement, the most recent title,
Return On Process (ROP): Getting Real Performance Results from Process Improvement.
Michael served as the Capability Counts 2017 Program Chair, the 2018 conference Program Executive, and this year is leading the new Conference Ambassador program as the Executive Ambassador.
SPEAKER PRESENTATION
Conference Track: Creative Approaches to CMMI Adoption
Business people often think of capability and capacity as almost the same thing, while others think of capability and capacity as mutually exclusive. In this presentation, Michael West provides working definitions that distinguish the two, as well as real-world examples that will help the audience to understand the real relationship between capability and capacity. This session includes examples and stories from executives and practitioners that illustrate an organization's need to improve capability vs capacity, or when to improve both. This presentation is intended to start conversations about the need for future versions of the CMMI to include practice areas that improve capacity.
Conference Track: Panel Discussion
In this panel discussion, thought-leaders and innovators working in the U.S. defense sector – Government, defense contractors, consultants, and CMMI Institute – will discuss the challenges, opportunities, and value of adopting CMMI V2.0 and Agile in major Department of Defense (DoD) programs.