Implementing CMMI for High Performance, an Executive Seminar

This one-day introductory course for executives and middle managers covers the key concepts and strategy behind the SEI's new fast track to process improvement from a management perspective. The purpose of the course is to provide the foundation that managers need to achieve high performance - quickly, affordably and long term: the Accelerated Improvement Method (AIM). AIM combines the best of Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), the Team Software Process (TSP) and Six Sigma measurement and analysis techniques, and can be tailored to support an organization's business or mission goals.

Each of these components has proven to help organizations reduce costs, improve quality, and improve the predictability of schedules. By effectively combining and implementing these technologies you can enjoy accelerated and predictable process improvement, and will be better able to maintain ongoing cost and quality improvements.

This course provides an overview of the integrated technologies and describes the integrated strategy used by others in achieving high performance, fast and effectively. It covers how to manage cost, schedule and quality, using data, as well as how to successfully introduce and sustain your improvement efforts.

Who should attend?

• executives and middle managers who are responsible for software development or maintenance
• managers who are responsible for software support areas such as software quality assurance, software engineering process groups, systems or hardware engineering, documentation, or finance

Topics

How to improve your software development capability using a suite of compatible products developed by the SEI.

• Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development
• Team Software Process
• Six Sigma measurement and analysis tools

A systematic way to apply these technologies that will measurably and dramatically improve performance in business critical areas.

• Cost and schedule predictability
• Cycle time, time to market, productivity, features per release
• Product quality
• Customer and employee satisfaction

Objectives

This course will help you to

• identify the problems that limit your software capability
• define the steps needed to address these problems
• establish a plan for addressing these problems

Prerequisites

A reading assignment, to be completed prior to the first day of the course, will be sent to all attendees after registration. Details will be mailed along with the course text book.

Materials

After registering for the course, attendees receive a copy of the book Winning with Software: An Executive Strategy by Watts S. Humphrey (ISBN 0-201-77639-1). An accompanying letter details the pre-course reading assignments. It is important that the assigned chapters are read before coming to the course. Students are given a course notebook during the course.

Schedule

This 1-day course meets at the following times:
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (U.S. locations)
9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (non-U.S. locations)