Biography of Judy Bamberger

Judy Bamberger has 20 years' experience developing software, leading teams,
teaching, and developing organisation-wide leaders.  An independent
consultant, she specializes in project management, process definition and
improvement, quality techniques (e.g., formal inspections, metrics), team
building, facilitation, and managing change.

Ms Bamberger has:

   *    Performed numerous assessments (SPA, CBA-IPI, ISO9001,
        custom-tailored methods) and worked with organisations around the
        world and at all maturity levels.

   *    Created a CMM/CMMI gap analysis method that is highly reliable and
        cost-effective.  This enables her clients to review their strengths
        and weaknesses against the practices of the CMM/CMMI, provides a
        likely maturity level rating, and summarises opportunities for
        improvement - at a fraction of the time and cost of an assessment.

   *    Assisted her clients with improvement plans based on assessment
        results, which enabled them to meet their strategic business goals
        and increase their maturity levels.

   *    Trained and coached internal change agents in:  basic quality tools,
        communication skills, managing change and resistance, effective
        improvement planning, and transition.  This enabled her clients to
        create lasting, positive changes.

Ms Bamberger is a key author of the CMM and is an Authorized Lead Assessor.

Ms Bamberger teaches project management and an award-winning course that
has the students apply basic quality tools in the contexts of a real team,
project, and organization.  She provides workshops in the CMM, the CMMI,
Personal Software Process, and numerous software engineering, management,
and leadership subjects.

Judy Bamberger, Process Solutions	Email:  bamberg@eaglet.rain.com