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Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 168!\nThe Software Process and Measurement Cast 168 features my interview with Bill Smith and his Twitter alterego @CMMIROX. \xa0We discussed CMMI training, marketing change and other topics that will give you a leg up on making 2012 a winner!\nBill Smith is President and CEO of Leading Edge Process Consultants, an SEI Partner with offices in Virginia and New York. He was the SEI\u2019s 2010 Outstanding Member Representative, and has been honored with an Outstanding Presentation award at the NDIA CMMI Technology Conference and User Group each of the past three years.\nAs an SEI-Certified Introduction to CMMI Instructor, Bill teaches the CMMI publicly every six weeks at his training facility in Reston, Virginia. He has taught the Introduction to CMMI course to over 1100 students coast-to-coast \u2013 including onsite deliveries at Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, AT&T, the IRS, and FEMA.\nBill served as consultant, appraiser, and trainer with the Systems and Software Consortium (SSCI) from 2002 through 2007. He has guided multiple organizations to various CMMI or SW-CMM maturity levels, led numerous appraisals, and chaired or served on a half dozen Engineering Process Groups. Bill\u2019s career has included jobs as an artificial intelligence programmer with IBM and advanced systems engineer with EDS. Overall, he has 27 years of software/systems engineering experience in management and technical positions.\nBill has an M.S. in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.\nBill offers his CMMI perspectives regularly as CmmiRox on twitter and on his corporate Facebook page. He also maintains his own social network, CMMI Rocks!, to support students who\u2019ve attended his CMMI classes.\xa0\nBill\u2019s non-professional passions include music, running, and the outdoors.\nContact Information:Web: \xa0Twitter: \xa0@cmmiroxEmail:\xa0bill@cmmitraining.com\n\nInterested in becoming a radio star? \xa0If you are interested in reviewing tools or books? \xa0Drop me a note at spamcastinfo@gmail.com\nShameless Ad for my book!\xa0\n co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." \xa0Have you bought your copy?\nContact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast\nEmail: \xa0spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail: \xa0+1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook: \xa0http://bit.ly/16fBWV\nNext\nThe Software Process and Measurement Cast 169 will feature part two of my essay on multitasking. \xa0This part will focus on what can be done to multitask less and serial mono-task more.