In this session, Agile Software Development Workshop (Scrum), project teams learn the Scrum development process to organize and manage their project work. Also available, consulting assistance to improve your current Scrum implementation.

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In this workshop, Doing More for Less,engineers and managers analyze their work activities and create a prioritized list of where time and money can be saved. A draft action plan is created.

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In this workshop, Measurement and Analysis, engineers and managers define their objectives, measures and analysis activities.

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In this workshop, Decision Analysis and Resolution, engineers and managers use a decision process to evaluate alternative choices and make a selection using weighted criteria.

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In this workshop, Supplier Management, system/software engineers, managers and subcontract managers learn how to define a product to be outsourced, write a subcontract management plan, select appropriate vendors and manage the project to completion.

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In this workshop, In Search of Excellent Requirements, software engineers, managers, requirements analysts and user representatives learn how to gather, document, analyze and manage customer requirements for software applications.

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A process appraisal examines your organization's engineering and management practices and generates a focused list of strengths and critical areas for improvement with consensus from managers and engineers. Our lead appraisers are authorized by the CMMI Institute to conduct CMMI (SCAMPI Class A, B & C) appraisals. We can also conduct an analysis that is customized to meet your specific needs.

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In this three-day Project Planning and Management workshop, project managers and their teams learn how to meet deadlines through better estimation, reduce surprises using risk management, schedule work for better optimization, understand and negotiate project tradeoffs, and track progress.

The Process Group offers onsite coaching on project management skills to ensure that your projects run more smoothly .

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This one-day Project Estimation workshop is a subset of the three-day Project Planning and Management workshop. It helps project managers and their teams develop more accurate effort and size estimates.

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This two-day Inspection (Peer Reviews) workshop teaches teams (engineers and managers) to efficiently find defects in their work (documentation and code) and eliminate the personality conflicts and inefficiencies of walk-throughs.

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This two-day Making Process Improvement Work workshop provides a systematic approach for organizations to improve their development capability, resulting in higher product quality and reduced costs. It presents a straightforward, systematic approach to planning, implementing, and monitoring a process improvement program.

In this three-hour presentation, Improving Organizations - Executive Overview , management of an organization will learn the critical steps needed for successful process improvement (PI). The presentation will demonstrate how improvement activities are tied to the business goals of an organization, how improvements are deployed, how progress is tracked, and how models and standards (e.g., CMMI) can be used to help projects in their daily work.

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The following workshops are available:

Development Model
- Intro to CMMI-DEV Staged and Continuous - (Three-day workshop)
- CMMI-DEV - Level 2 - (One-day workshop)
- CMMI-DEV - Level 3 - (Two-day workshop)
- Overview of CMMI-DEV - (One half-day presentation)

Services Model (summary page)
- Intro to CMMI-SVC Staged and Continuous - (Three-day workshop)
- CMMI-SVC Supplement - (One-day workshop)
- CMMI-SVC Level 2 - (One-day workshop)

The Process Group is a CMMI Institute vendor for the Introduction to CMMI (SVC & DEV) and Services Supplement workshops.

 

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In this workshop, Time Management, technical and non-technical staff learn and use personal time management skills to improve their focus and productivity.

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This service allows you to obtain our expertise while eliminating travel expenses. Usually when clients call us to discuss their needs and issues, we are able to help them at no cost through discussions and E-mails.

At other times, we jointly decide that dedicated phone-based assistance is needed for significant pre-arranged consulting time over the telephone. We provide this at our regular consulting rate. We will work with you to create an agenda and schedule a specific time for the session. You will only be invoiced for the hours used.

Dedicated phone-based assistance is ideal for senior managers, project teams and process improvement teams needing to resolve a problem, determine direction, or undergo a periodic checkup.

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This service consists of customized coaching on your specific problems, (e.g., meeting deadlines, product quality, process documentation feedback, project reviews, improvement progress checkup and cultural change issues).

See Tailored Assistance examples. Contact us with your specific needs.

Reduced scope workshops can be provided. Examples include: Use Cases (1/2 day), Risk Management (1/2 day), Project Planning (2 days), Negotiation (1/4 day), and Project Scheduling (1/2 day).

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Our staff routinely speaks on subjects that relate to the services we offer. These sessions provide a fresh perspective on the issues you face, and more clearly illustrate the options you have for improving your development process.

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The Inspection, Project Planning and Estimation workshop materials are available for licensing in conjunction with a train-the-trainer program. Please tell us your needs.

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