Software Process Templates

(Includes 3* Hours of Consultation)

Templates Are the Key to Producing Software Engineering Documents that are Clear and Concisely Represent the Requirements of the Process

These Templates will help a software engineer, without extensive knowledge of a software engineering process to prepare a plan or record that meets highly professional expectations.  International authorities working in their specific area of software process expertise author these templates.  The templates are neither theory nor academic exercises.  They provide wording and recommendations based on experience and extensive knowledge in the workplace.  Each template's illustrative text is designed for use by stripping underlined tutorial notation and adding requirements and guidance unique to your organization and operating environment. The text can also be modified for requirements and guidance to meet organizational needs, and unique environments.  The templates are applicable to all types of software from information technology, commercial, scientific, and other non-business applications .  Each template comes with three hours of free telephone or electronic consultation.  SEPT will answer any questions concerning the Templates for 60 days after purchase.  Order these great software engineering tools today!

We also have a kit of the four key templates. This will save 40% off the individual prices when ordering this kit.

Note:  The new 12207 and 15288 was just released (March 2008) by ISO, SEPT will update all its corresponding checklist and templates by July 2008.  If you buy one of our 12207 or 15288 products in the meantime we will give you 50% off the new price when the product is released. Thank you for your patience during this transition period.

Benefits of the Templates

  Save time, save money, and improve the process!  Order now! 

Many firms are posting these templates to their Intranet for wider access to this important information. We have a special to the end of 2006 on a 5 year license for $1800 for any template.  Contact SEPT at stanmagee@smartwire.net for details.

The 3 hours of consultation is conducted by telephone or e-mail for up to 60 days following template purchase date.*

Author Information

H. Ronald Berlack is Principal Consultant of his firm, Configuration Management International, Amherst, New Hampshire.  The firm provides seminars and expertise in the establishment and implementation of the hardware and software configuration management process nationally and internationally.  Mr. Berlack was manager of Configuration and Data Management at Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, Nashua, New Hampshire, from (1963 to 1992).  He is a past Chairperson of the Electronic Industries Alliance�s Data and Configuration Management and Computer Resources Committees.  Mr. Berlack was a Co-Chair of the IEEE Working Function that published IEEE Standard 828-1990, Software Configuration Management Plans.  He was a Co-Project Editor for the International Organization for Standards (ISO) Standard on Software Configuration Management.  He is author of the text, Software Configuration Management, published by John Wiley and Son, New York, 1992.

George Jackelen has developed and reviewed over a hundred software plans and innumerable other documentation for small, large and complex projects.  He has been a Documentation Manager and worked on several quality related jobs that required the development and review of documentations.  Jackelen has also reviewed Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) software documents and was an author and reviewer of International Organization for Standards (ISO) documents.  In addition he has produced and implemented innumerable policies, procedures, standards, checklists and detailed work/operating instructions.  Jackelen was also in charge of document reviews, editing, acceptance and publication for three international symposiums.  Jackelen has written several articles for software, quality and company magazines.  He is certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI) as a Project Management Professional (PMP).  Jackelen has provided comments about PMI products and assisted in the development of PMI standards.  He is the owner of Jackelen Consulting Services and GGJ Consulting Services, Inc.  These firms specialize in the areas of system/software support, e.g., quality assurance, independent verification and validation, configuration management, documentation management and project management.  Jackelen has a Masters of Computer Science from Texas A&M University and a certificate in Assurance Technology fromNortheastern University.

John Neorr worked for The Boeing Company for 35 years in Software Engineering before retiring in 2002. Mr. Neorr now does independent consulting. Mr. Neorr�s last assignment at Boeing was managing a configuration management organization that provided CM services to a software development project building reusable command and control software. Mr. Neorr wrote the software configuration management plan for this project, formalized and improved its CM processes, and designed an in-house set of tools to support them. During this project Mr. Neorr�s CM organization supported over 25 software engineers working in classified and unclassified environments. Mr. Neorr�s efforts on this project resulted in his receiving several special recognition awards. During his career at Boeing Mr. Neorr specialized in the analysis and development of tools and processes to enhance software developer�s productivity. Several of these tools, including the adaptation of a database for use as a CM repository, were designed to implement improved software configuration management. Mr. Neorr was a key contributor to Boeing�s software engineering workstation developed as part of a DoD project, called Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems (STARS). A key feature of the software engineering workstation was its integrated CM repository. Mr. Neorr received a BS degree in Engineering at Case Institute of Technology in 1966.

Thomas M. Pigoski is President and CEO of TECHSOFT, Inc., of Pensacola, Florida, USA.  TECHSOFT specializes in software maintenance and provides consulting and training services.  Mr. Pigoski has over 30 years experience in the field of software engineering and was technical director of a U.S. Navy software organization, which provided worldwide support.  He is currently providing process improvement support for software maintenance to a large Navy engineering organization. He is a past General Chair of the IEEE Computer Society�s International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM).  He was the recipient of the Software Maintenance Association�s �Newsmaker of the Year Award for 1990� for his contributions to the field of maintenance.  Mr. Pigoski is the Project Editor for the International Organization for Standards (ISO) Standard on Software Maintenance, ISO/IEC 14764.  Currently, he is merging the two commercial software maintenance standards, IEEE 1219 and ISO/IEC 14764, into one common standard, ISO/IEC 14764, for IEEE and ISO/IEC. He is also participating in the update to ISO/IEC 12207 and the harmonization of IEEE 12207 and ISO/IEC 15288.  He is the author of the text, Practical Software Maintenance: Best Practices for Managing Your Software Investment, published by John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1997. Mr. Pigoski holds a B.S. in Mathematics from St. John�s University, Jamaica New York and a M. S. in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.  He also did graduate work in Computer Science at George Washington University, the University of Maryland, and the University of West Florida.

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