Learn how to improve your organization's performance by correctly using best practices from CMMI
Introduction to CMMI®-Dev Public Workshop
| Where | Dallas-Fort Worth Area (location to be selected, based on student demographics) |
| When | August 26-28, 2008 (9:00 am - 5:00 pm) |
| Cost | $1,350 (includes materials and lunch) |
Many organizations try to improve their quality and productivity by establishing a company-wide improvement program. These programs often result in large amounts of process documentation which eventually become a burden or are ignored completely. In many cases, the organization is left with very little benefit to show for its efforts. See a brief explanation of CMMI and why it works.
The SEI Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) guides software, IT, hardware and systems development organizations in their improvement efforts.
Improve the performance of your projects and organization
Reduce your engineering, IT and support costs
Understand:
Where your CMMI gaps are
What an appraiser looks for in an appraisal
Neil Potter and Mary Sakry are SEI-authorized providers of the Intro to CMMI workshop, and lead appraisers (with High Maturity certification) for the SCAMPI process appraisal method.
Neil and Mary:
Course overview
This workshop is for professionals who want a stronger understanding of how to interpret and use the CMMI. The workshop focuses on using CMMI practices to achieve business goals and solve real project problems. Participants start the workshop by identifying their project-level goals and problems. As they learn about the Process Areas (PA) they select elements from each PA that best help them move toward their goals and fix their problems. At the end of the workshop, participants group all of the actions into a draft action plan.
Throughout the workshop we discuss the problems that people
encounter while doing process improvement. These include
over-documenting processes, implementing too much change at once,
resistance to change, rote use of the CMMI, and maintaining
management buy-in.
Introduction
CMMI overview
Characteristics of each Maturity Level and the Continuous Model
Goal-problem-based improvement: How to tie CMMI practices directly to the business goals of the organization
Engineering process maturity - CMMI principles
Maturity Levels, Capability Levels and process areas of the CMMI Model Staged and Continuous Representations
This class can be used as a prerequisite for taking other SEI-provided classes, such as Intermediate-CMMI and SCAMPI appraisal training.
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The Capability Maturity Model Integration consists of five levels of engineering and management best practices, each level building on the next. CMMI Level 1 has no criteria and represents projects that typically have large amounts of rework, numerous technical surprises, frustrated customers, and significant cost and schedule overruns. Good software and systems can come from a Level 1 organization; however, this result isn't easy to achieve or sustain. Level 2 comprises of sound project management, negotiations with the customer, version control, vendor management, and simple process and product assurance. Organizations at Level 2 can focus on solution development rather than day-to-day crises. Level 3 focuses on organization-wide engineering skills, basic systems engineering, advanced project management, and an infrastructure to support sustained improvement. Organizations at Level 3 consistently produce reliable solutions on time with less rework.
Yes, if implemented poorly. If an improvement effort isn't integrated with the organization's business and development goals, any process framework usually results in a large stack of unused process documents. In this workshop, you will learn how to avoid this mistake.
The Process Group principals have conducted workshops for companies in the U.S., U.K., Switzerland, Canada, India, Germany, France, China, Czech Republic, Singapore and Japan. See customer testimonials. We are authorized SEI appraisal (SCAMPI) leaders and provide consulting services that enable you to operate your organization more efficiently and profitably. We also offer public speaking engagements that help management and employees understand the various techniques for--and benefits of--improving the development process.
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