SPaMCAST 170 - Hillel Glazer, High Performance Operations, CMMI, Agile

Published: Jan. 22, 2012, 11:55 p.m.

b'Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 170! Happy fifth anniversary from Amsterdam!\\nThe SPaMCAST 170 features my interview Hillel Glazer. \\xa0We discussed his book %20">High Performance Operations: Leverage Compliance to Lower Costs, Increase Profits, and Gain Competitive Advantage and many other topics like the CMMI and Agile.\\nHillel Glazer is recognized as the world\\u2019s leading authority on introducing lean and agile concepts into the compliance-driven world. \\xa0He\\u2019s helped companies of all sizes and industries around the world successfully streamline their operations, increase value, and expose and eliminate practices that prevent them from achieving their performance goals. \\xa0And, he does so while simultaneously accounting for all the external compliance pressures on their operations.\\nHillel\\u2019s professional passion is to work with companies motivated to achieve world-class operations and excellence. \\xa0His diverse experience base includes aerospace/defense and systems engineering, large and small consulting practices, Federal agencies, dot-com operations and financial, insurance, medical and transportation systems development and support. \\xa0Having started in manufacturing where he learned the fundamentals of lean production, for more than the most recent decade, as a consultant, Hillel\\u2019s been successfully pioneering the introduction of lean philosophies, methods and techniques into businesses and industries otherwise believed to be either too chaotic or too highly restricted in freedom by their compliance and regulation requirements to be able to adopt high performance approaches.\\nHillel is an in-demand speaker, presenter, and facilitator. \\xa0(See where he\\u2019ll show up next.) \\xa0He is widely read, broadly published, and appears worldwide on the topics pertaining to operational excellence in compliance-driven industries. His work appears in many publications including periodicals and the texts, CMMI for Services, 2nd Edition, CMMI for Development, 3rd Edition, and Integrating CMMI and Agile Development.\\nHis Baltimore-based company, Entinex, has a global reach that focuses on generating powerful results for high performance operations among companies motivated to be lean, agile, and achieve world-class levels of operational excellence. \\xa0He lives in the Baltimore suburbs with his fabulous wife and four amazing children.\\nIf you are going to buy Hillel\'s book and want to support the SPaMCAST please use the following link which uses the SPaMCAST\'s Amazon Associate account. \\xa0%20">Buy the book!\\nContact Data:Web: \\xa0http://hillelglazer.comWeb: \\xa0http://www.entinex.com/Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/hillelglazerTwitter: http://twitter.com/hi11e1Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Entinex-Inc/263402040088?ref=ts\\xa0\\nShameless Ad for my book!\\xa0\\n%20">Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques 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." \\xa0%20">Buy the book!\\nHave 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!\\nSPaMCAST 171 will feature a bit of meta-cast celebrating the Software Process and Measurement Casts fifth anniversary and an entry from the Metrics Minute on Customer Satisfaction!'