Implementing Goal-Driven Measurement

Dates

2008* Prices (USD)

2008 Dates
February 26-28, 2008 (SEI Arlington, VA)
June 10-12, 2008 (SEI Pittsburgh, PA)
September 16-18, 2008 (SEI Arlington, VA)
October 20-22, 2008 (SEI Frankfurt, Germany)
December 2-4, 2008 (SEI Arlington, VA)

Course Registration
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Phone: 412 / 268-7388
FAX: 412 / 268-7401
Questions: courseregistration@sei.cmu.edu

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U.S.
Course Fee:
Industry: $1650
Government: $1320
Academic: $1320

International
Course Fee:
$3300

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Course Description

This three-day course teaches managers and practitioners how to identify and define indicators (graphical displays) and measures that directly support an organization's business, process improvement, and project goals related to product development, process improvement, and project management. Using lectures and exercises, participants learn how to determine success, progress, and analysis indicators that show traceability from an organization's high-level business goals right down to the precise data collected ensuring relevance and traceability from their goals to the data collected. Participants also learn how to define measures and indicators that are aligned with the organization's business processes and support the measurement requirements of the Capability Maturity Model^® Integration (CMMI^®) Measurement and Analysis process area. With useful examples, real-life experiences from the field, and a class notebook filled with helpful checklists, templates, and reference materials, participants walk away with the tools necessary to lead goal-driven software measurement processes at their own organizations. Relevant ties to the Measurement and Analysis process area of Capability Maturity Model^® Integration (CMMI^®) are also explored.

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Audience   ·    Prerequisites    ·    Objectives   ·    Logistics

AUDIENCE

• project managers and process managers
• software engineering process group members
• process improvement working group members
• software measurement team members
• professionals who need reliable quantitative information to guide acquiring, supporting, planning, or tracking software systems

PREREQUISITES
Before registering for this course, participants should be familiar with projects or processes from their home organizations for which measurements could provide guiding information.

TOPICS

• goal-driven software management
• goal identification
• attributes of good indicators: representing data to communicate and inform
• success indicators
• strategies and activities to achieve the goals
• analysis and progress indicators
• identification and definition of the data elements needed to construct indicators
• indicator template for precise documentation
• action plan creation
• examples of what others have done

OBJECTIVES
This course helps participants to

• define and use goal-driven measures to manage and improve software projects, products, and processes
• establish a measurement program that is aligned with the organization's business processes
• define measures and indicators that support the measurement requirements of the CMMI Measurement and Analysis process area
• start and lead measurement activities in the context of software process improvement programs

Course Materials
Students will receive a course notebook that contains copies of the presentation materials, class exercises, templates, key references, URLs, and other useful materials discussed in class.

LOGISTICS

Class Schedule
This three-day course meets at the following times:
Days 1-2, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (U.S. locations)
Day 3, 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (U.S. locations)

Days 1-2, 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Non-U.S. locations)
Day 3, 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (Non-U.S. locations)

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Questions about this course?
Please see our Frequently Asked Questions Web page for answers to some of the more common inquiries about SEI Education and Training.

If you need more information, contact us via e-mail at course-info@sei.cmu.edu or telephone at +1 412-268-7622.

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Publications
Goal-Driven Software Measurement - A Guidebook

Experiences in Implementing Measurement Programs

Applications of the Indicator Template for Measurement and Analysis

Deriving Enterprise-Based Measures Using the Balanced Scorecard and Goal-Driven Measuring Techniques

Practical Software and System Measurement: A Foundation for Objective Project Management, Guidebook

Software Process Framework for the SEI Capability Maturity Model

Events
Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) Conference

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