SEI-Certified TSP Coach Renewal Criteria

In order to keep your Team Software Process (TSP) Coach certification current, you must

• Be an SEI-Certified TSP Coach in good standing.

• Successfully lead one TSP project launch or relaunch within a two-year certification period. Your TSP launch observation data does not fulfill this requirement.

• Submit team data through the Partner Resource Center for

• launches and relaunches

    o Workbooks (top-down, consolidated, and individual)

    o Questionnaires (site, project, and team member)

    o Evaluations (launch and relaunch)

    o Launch meeting 1 and meeting 9 presentations

• all other events

    o Workbooks (consolidated and individual)

    o Monthly management reports

• Any other supporting documentation that helps describe your

  project implementation may also be submitted with the data files.

• Successfully complete any required SEI course upgrades and exams.

• Use upgraded materials when available.

• Be sponsored by an SEI Partner for the TSP product suite.

• Be an SEI-Certified PSP Developer in good standing.

• Successfully complete all of the SEI Partner Network Ethics and Compliance training modules that are released during your renewal cycle.

Coaches who meet the criteria for maintaining their certification will automatically have their certification reinstated for an additional two-year period.

Coaches who allow their certification to lapse will have to do one or more of the following in order to reinstate their certification:

• Attend training as required.

• Retake and pass the certification exam.

• Be observed again according to the guidelines in the observation step above.