Acquisition Supplement for CMMI v1.2

This one-day course introduces acquisition managers and practitioners, appraisal team members, and process group (e.g., SEPG, EPG) members to CMMI fundamental concepts related to acquisition. CMMI for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ) is a CMMI model designed for use in managing a supply chain by those who acquire, procure, or otherwise select and purchase products and services for business purposes. This CMMI model focuses on acquirer processes and contains best practices that address activities for initiating and managing the acquisition of products and services that meet the needs of the customer. Some types of acquisitions that would benefit from using CMMI-ACQ include government acquisition, supply chain management, procurement, and outsourcing.

Advanced Topics in Service-Oriented Architecture

System and software architects and developers face some unfamiliar challenges in the design and implementation of service-oriented systems. The goal of this course is to provide guidance in architecting, securing, and testing service-oriented systems and in implementing SOA governance.

Assessing Information Security Risk Using the OCTAVE Approach

In this three-day course, participants learn to perform information security risk assessments using the Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation (OCTAVE) approach. The OCTAVE approach provides organizations a comprehensive methodology that focuses on information assets in their operational contexts. Risks are identified and analyzed based on where they originate—at the points where information is stored, transported, and processed. By focusing on operational risks to information, participants learn to view risk assessment in the context the organization's strategic objectives and risk tolerances.

CMMI and Six Sigma: Strategies for Joint Implementation

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. Students 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.

CMMI Level 2 for Practitioners

This three-day course provides students with an understanding of the concepts necessary for achieving and maintaining CMMI Maturity Level 2, including the relationships among CMMI model components. The course is composed of class lectures and exercises presented in a style that creates dialog among students and instructors.

CMMI Level 3 for Practitioners

This three day course provides students with an understanding of the concepts necessary for achieving and maintaining CMMI Maturity Level 3, including the relationships among CMMI model components.

CMMI Version 1.2 Instructor Training

This course has been updated to support the Version 1.2 CMMI® Product Suite. This three-day course introduces those interested in becoming SEI-authorized Introduction to CMMI Version 1.2 course instructors to details of the CMMI models and the Introduction to CMMI Version 1.2 course. The candidate instructors must have an evident in-depth understanding of CMMI models as well as effective teaching and facilitation skills to satisfactorily complete this course.

CMMI Version 1.2 Upgrade Training

This online training provides students who have taken CMMI Version 1.1 training the opportunity to understand the changes and improvements made in CMMI Version 1.2. It will help you to successfully make the transition from CMMI Version 1.1 to the updated Version 1.2 of the CMMI model, method and training. It does not matter which version of the Introduction to CMMI course that you attended (staged, continuous, or staged and continuous). The materials are designed to provide a general insight into the changes but also include refresher materials on important CMMI concepts.

CMMI-Based Process Improvement Overview

This one-day course introduces executives, managers, potential sponsors, champions, and practitioners of process improvement to the fundamental concepts of Capability Maturity Modeling® and the value it can bring to organizations using a CMMI® model. It also describes an approach to model-based process improvement and provides some recommendations on how to initiate and sustain a process improvement initiative within an organization based upon the SEI's IDEAL model. These models and approaches are pragmatic applications of proven management and quality improvement concepts for product development, acquisition, and maintenance. They are de facto standards developed and owned by the product development community and are models for organizational improvement.

Continuous Risk Management

This two-day course introduces participants to the concepts and application of continuous risk management. After attending, participants will have a deep understanding of continuous risk management that will enable them to use it in their organization's projects.

Engineering Safety- and Security-Related Requirements for Software-Intensive Systems

This two day course covers the intersection of safety-, security-, and requirements engineering. Safety and security have a great deal in common with related concepts, analysis techniques, and goals, to protect valuable assets from unauthorized harm due to dangers (hazards and threats) which naturally suggest a risk-based approach to requirements analysis.

Intermediate Concepts of CMMI Version 1.2

This course has been updated to support Version 1.2 of the CMMI Product Suite. This five-day course introduces candidate SCAMPI Lead Appraisers, candidate CMMI instructors, systems and software engineers, engineering process group (e.g., EPG, SEPG) members, and others to detailed CMMI concepts, including the relationships among CMMI model components. CMMI models are tools that organizations can use to help improve their ability to develop and maintain quality products and services.

Intermediate Concepts of People CMM

This five-day course introduces attendees to detailed People CMM® concepts, including the relationships among People CMM model components. The People CMM is a framework that organizations can use to help improve their ability to ensure that their staff members have the competencies to achieve an organization's current and future business objectives.

Interoperable Acquisition Overview

This workshop introduces key concepts for acquisition in the context of systems of systems. The focus is on how to integrate classical program management activities, system development practices, operational activities, and sustainment into an effective set of practices to attain interoperable capability enabled by systems exchanging information and operating on that information according to specified, agreed-to operational semantics across systems of systems.

Introduction to CERT Resiliency Management Model

This four-day course introduces a model-based process improvement approach to managing operational resiliency using the CERT Resiliency Management Model (CERT RMM) v1.0. The CERT RMM is a capability model that promotes the convergence of security, business continuity, and IT operations activities as a means to help organizations to actively direct, control, and manage operational resiliency and risk. It focuses on helping organizations to protect and sustain their critical business processes and services by ensuring the continued productivity of assets such as people, information, technology, and facilities in the face of disruptions and unplanned events. The CERT RMM provides users an objective means to measure their capability for managing operational resiliency and for targeting areas of improvement while allowing them to continue using domain-specific practices with which they have familiarity and expertise.

Introduction to CMMI Version 1.2

This three-day course introduces systems and software engineering managers and practitioners, appraisal team members, and engineering process group (e.g., SEPG, EPG) members to CMMI fundamental concepts. CMMI models are tools that help organizations improve their ability to develop and maintain quality products and services. CMMI models are an integration of best practices from proven discipline-specific process improvement models, including the CMM for Software, EIA 731, and the Integrated Product Development CMM.

Introduction to the People CMM

This three-day course introduces those who are involved in improving workforce management practices or managing technical professionals to the People Capability Maturity Model (People CMM), Version 2.0, its fundamental concepts, and the value it can bring to organizations using it. The People CMM is a framework that organizations can use to attract, motivate, and retain talented technical staff. The practices in the model help an organization be an employer of choice and ensure that the staff has the competencies and capabilities to achieve an organization's current and future business objectives.

Migrating Legacy Systems to SOA Environments

This course addresses service-oriented systems development and its challenges from the perspectives of the service developer, the application developer, and the infrastructure developer. The course also addresses potential issues in leveraging legacy systems in SOA Environments.

Migrating Legacy Systems to SOA Environments - eLearning

This course addresses service-oriented systems development and its challenges from the perspectives of the service developer, the application developer, and the infrastructure developer. The course also addresses potential issues in leveraging legacy systems in SOA environments and outlines a method for developing a realistic strategy to migrate legacy systems to a targeted SOA environment.

People CMM Instructor Training

This three-day course introduces those interested in becoming SEI-authorized Introduction to People CMM Version 2.0 course instructors to details of the People CMM and the Introduction to People CMM Version 2.0 course. The candidate instructors must have an evident in-depth understanding of People CMM as well as effective teaching and facilitation skills to satisfactorily complete this course.

Practical Risk Management: Framework and Methods

This two-day course provides the foundation for a more practical approach to risk management that builds from a straightforward, broad-view method to a complex array of techniques needed for in-depth analyses of complex risks. Through an interactive learning environment using discussion, examples, worksheets, and exercises, participants will be able to grasp the essentials of the practical, easy-to-use techniques.

SCAMPI B and C Team Leader Training

This four-and-a-half-day course is the primary qualifying activity for those interested in becoming authorized team leaders for the Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) B and C methods. SCAMPI B and C are effective diagnostic tools that can be used to facilitate CMMI-based process improvement, as well as overall improvement strategies. These methods help organizational maturity by identifying process strengths and weaknesses as related to the best practices of one or more CMMI models.

SCAMPI Lead Appraiser Training

This five-day course prepares participants to become SCAMPI lead appraisers by introducing participants to the concepts and details of the SCAMPI method. After attending the course, participants will qualify as candidate SCAMPI lead appraisers.

SCAMPI with People CMM Lead Appraiser Training

This five-day course introduces those interested in becoming authorized SCAMPI A with People CMM lead appraisers to the Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) method V1.2. The SCAMPI A method is a diagnostic tool that supports, enables, and encourages an organization's commitment to process improvement. The method helps organizations gain insight into their process capability or organizational maturity by identifying process strengths and weaknesses as related to the best practices of The People CMM. SCAMPI A V1.2 is the method of choice for benchmarking and is therefore defined by the Appraisal Requirements for CMMI (ARC) V1.2 as a Class A appraisal method.

Service Migration and Reuse Technique (SMART) Training

This course provides training in SMART. Individuals participating in this two-day interactive course will gain hands-on experience using the templates of the SMART process through activities and case studies.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance Workshop

By attending this workshop, participants understand and devise a high-level SOA governance plan and action items which can later be executed. The SOA Governance Workshop is designed to be delivered in any setting, including at your site.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Strategy Workshop

Participants explore the linking of their organization's business goals with SOA strategies, identify potential pilot projects, and develop a set of high-level plans that can form the basis for later implementations. The SOA Strategy Workshop is designed to be delivered in any setting, including at your site.

Service-Oriented Architecture: Best Practices for Successful Adoption

This introductory course provides a "50,000-foot" view of SOA implications for an organization; introduces services, service consumers, and infrastructure as basic components of service-oriented systems; outlines common technologies for enabling service-oriented systems; and addresses SOA development challenges.

Service-Oriented Architecture: Legacy Systems Migration

This course builds on the common misconception that it is easy to integrate any legacy system into an SOA environment. The course begins with the presentation of business and technical considerations that would make a migration effort infeasible. The three elements of the Service Migration and Reuse Technique (SMART) are introduced as a way to analyze the viability of reusing legacy systems in SOA environments.

Services Supplement for CMMI v1.2

This one-day course introduces service providers, appraisal team members, and process group members to CMMI fundamental concepts related to service delivery. The CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC) model defines effective practices that ensure quality services are delivered to customers and end users. Some types of services that would benefit from using CMMI-SVC include maintenance, operations, logistics, IT, and many other services in other government and industry.

Software Acquisition Survival Skills

This three-day course introduces participants to the unique challenges associated with acquiring software-intensive systems.

Understanding CMMI High Maturity Practices

This 4-day course is the definitive source of information about CMMI levels 4 and 5. If your organization is or plans to be a high-performance organization that consistently uses high maturity practices, this course is a must. This course explains what high maturity is and its characteristics. It provides detailed explanations of the concepts and practices at maturity levels 4-5 as well as examples of how statistical methods and tools can be applied to assist in the proper implementation of these practices. CMMI levels 4 and 5 and Six Sigma are a powerful combination that enables organizations to achieve engineering excellence. This course covers both Six Sigma concepts and tips for effectively performing, managing, and improving processes. Process-performance baselines, process-performance models, control charts and other techniques are explained and their use is demonstrated through examples and exercises.