Establishing a software engineering process group in a medical device company

Establishing a software engineering process group, SEPG, in a medical device company requires careful planning and organizing to succeed. The author discusses how to proceed after executive management says `we must be at the best process performance level possible, tell us what to do´. He also includes major problems in establishing a SEPG and how to prevent or correct them. A SEPG´s mission is to, `provide leadership in advancing the state of the practice of software engineering to improve the quality of systems that depend on software´. The main method the SEPG uses is technology transition, `the process of organizing, executing, and supporting activities that lead to the adoption and institutionalization of new technologies, methods, or approaches such that they become a routine part of doing business´