Ms. Brautigam is an expert in leadership, management, and process improvements associated with software systems development projects. She has over 20 years of experience in large government contracting projects, medium commercial companies, and start-ups. She has extensive knowledge of and experience with software process improvement. She has worked with the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI's) models since the early nineties and has achieved substantial strides in organizational maturity at Martin Marietta and StorageTek. This work led her to become a professional project manager (PMP) and certified Scrum master (CSM). Ms. Brautigam led large development teams at IBM and small Agile teams at BEA Systems.
In 2003 she brought her industry experience to academia where she created and taught "Managing Outsourced Development" and "The Truth about Software Outsourcing", based on the PMBOK and Software Acquisition CMM, as well as "Metrics for Managers". While Ms. Brautigam is an expert in cutting edge software process theory, she is primarily interested in improving the practice of software development. Her bias is for software professionals to focus on the business of the overall organization.
Ms. Brautigam holds a BS-Industrial and Operations Engineering degree from the University of Michigan and a MS-IT degree from Carnegie Mellon University.