(openPR) - Method Park America Inc. and Kasse Initiatives LLC have joined forces in a combined effort to serve the systems & software engineering community. The partnership will provide the community with a single organization providing a suite of process improvement tools and services to improve quality, efficiency, and productivity.

"Both Method Park and Kasse Initiatives are driven to help our clients achieve their business goals through process improvement. Combining our portfolios complements this goal” stated Dr. Bernd Hindel, CEO of Method Park. The combination of Tim Kasse, one of the most accomplished CMMITM appraisers in the business, and Method Park, the leading SPICE and engineering process management software company, provides a powerful solution for our customers.

About Method Park

Method Park’s engineers and consultants are experts in the field of software development for automotive and medical systems, especially where high demands on quality and safety are made. We are your experienced partner for engineering services, coaching, training and consulting in software development processes and process maturity models.

Our web-based process management portal "Stages" allows you to model your process, assures the compliance of processes to standards (e.g. CMMITM, SPICETM ), and communicates process descriptions to teams. Stages can be integrated with your configuration management system to manage project documents in accordance with the defined process.

Method Park, which was founded in 2001 in Erlangen, Germany, currently has more then 120 employees. Method Park has subsidiaries in Erlangen, Freiburg, Munich and Stuttgart in Germany, as well as Detroit and San José, USA.

About Kasse Initiatives

Our passion for Quality and Process Improvement spans thirty years in equally as many different industries and countries. Kasse Initiatives LLC is a full-services process improvement training, consulting and assessment company working with clients worldwide to achieve measurable business results. We do this by:

* Addressing senior management and business issues
* Translating and setting expectations for all levels of management and practitioners
* Providing training in project management, quality management, multiple engineering disciplines, and process management
* Conducting appraisals / assessments
* Helping to create action plans to achieve business objectives.
* Providing handholding coaching and mentoring to ensure that new and revised concepts are successfully transferred to our clients

From IT to diesel engines, from banking to defense, our approach is to work with our clients to help them improve, but in a way that they can balance the achievement of their planned process improvement with their business objectives.

For further information please contact
Margit Brendl, Public Relations
Method Park Software AG, Wetterkreuz 19a, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 9131 9 72 06-281, Fax +49 (0) 9131 9 72 06-280
E-Mail:Margit.Brendl@methodpark.com
www.methodpark.com