Process Management for Successful Multi-Organizational Teams
Development teams comprised of members from multiple organizations often perform poorly, particularly at the outset, regardless of the process capability of individual team members. This problem is aggravated when process management needs and requirements of newly formed teams are not considered. Critical success factors for process management on multi-organizational teams will be covered.
Joan Weszka is Director of Business Development in Method Park America, a position she has held since May 2011.
Joan has extensive experience in enterprise process improvement, software and systems engineering, program management and computer image processing. Her most recent position before joining Method Park America was Director of Process Improvement Strategies in the Chief Technology Office of Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services where she led and participated in a number of strategic initiatives for process improvement and measurement. Previously, she was Director of the Lockheed Martin Center for Process Improvement Excellence, a corporate-level organization providing services in areas of process improvement and appraisal, program management, software and systems engineering, measurement, estimation, reliability and organizational change management. During her years with IBM, she held both management and technical positions in development of commercial systems, real-time command and control systems, and systems integration in federal/state government and commercial sectors.
Joan was a member of the SEI’s Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI®) Steering Group and previously chaired their Software CMM® Advisory Board. Joan was also a member of the Systems and Software Consortium Inc. (SSCI) Board of Directors in 2008 and 2009.
A frequent presenter at conferences on the topic of process improvement and appraisal, Joan has authored or co-authored dozens of published papers. She holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics, with honors, and an M.S. degree in Computer Science, both from the University of Maryland.