Kent Johnson
Base: Florida
Works as a: CMMI Consultant
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Biography
Kent A. Johnson is the Chief Technical Officer for AgileDigm, Incorporated. AgileDigm is an international process consulting company providing services in the US and worldwide. Kent has successfully worked with executives and staff to improve their organizations in industries including aviation, telecommunications, automotive, defense, software product development, healthcare,and medical devices.
He has been involved in process improvement with the Software Engineering Institute since 1987. He is an SEI-certified SCAMPI Lead Appraiser, an SEI-certified SCAMPI High Maturity Lead Appraiser, an SEI-certified CMMI® instructor, and a Certified ScrumMaster.
Internationally, Kent has helped clients in over 25 countries to improve their systems and software processes. He has helped clients move from Maturity Level 1 to Maturity Level 5 using both the CMM and CMMI.
Kent is co-author of Interpreting the CMMI: A Process Improvement Approach, Second Edition, Auerbach (2008) and several other books.
Prior to joining AgileDigm, he was the Director of Systems Engineering for TeraQuest Metrics, Inc. (later acquired by Borland Software). While at Borland, he served as the manager for Borland’s largest process improvement project within Europe at NATO in the Netherlands and Belgium and led the Process Improvement Group within Borland’s EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) Region.
He is a former Program Manager of the Process and Methods Program at the Software Productivity Consortium. While at the SPC, he co-authored and led the team that created the software and system development method used by over 800 engineers in a dozen companies for the development of the F-22 Advanced Tactical Fighter.