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Leveraging CMMI and Six Sigma Improves Organizational Resiliency
Even highly effective businesses face challenges in this tough economy from the credit crunch that limits their ability to expand and their customers' capacity to spend. One response to these challenges is to become even more effective through getting more from their improvement initiatives (including technologies, reference models, and standards).
CMMI and Six Sigma: Strategies for Joint Implementation, a new course from the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI), provides organizations with strategies to appropriately leverage Six Sigma and CMMI initiatives.
The purpose of this course is to explore and understand strategies, and underlying technical mechanisms, through which CMMI and Six Sigma may be jointly deployed in an organization. Participants will explore numerous facets of joint deployment—from benefits, to specific aspects of solution design and sequencing, to considerations for infrastructure and training—via a blend of lecture, illustrations, and exercises.
The course is targeted for line managers, project managers, and lead engineers. These individuals might include process improvement professionals such as engineering process group members, Six Sigma practitioners, measurement points of contact, and others.
After completing the course, participants will be able to list and explain several strategies for joint implementation of CMMI and Six Sigma, describe the technical aspects of the relationships between CMMI and Six Sigma, and identify which strategies and design connections may be relevant and beneficial to their organizational context.
For more information and registration details, go to http://www.sei.cmu.edu/products/courses/p71.html.
Added January 8, 2009