Seminar - Introduction to CMMI - SEI authorized course

The Software Engineering Institute has now published the new version of its maturity model, CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integrated).

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.

This course fulfils a prerequisite requirement for those requiring an official SEI introductory CMMI course.  This course is given in association with UNICOM.

Description

Successful completion of this course will enable participants to:

• Describe the fundamentals of model-based process improvement,
• Illustrate the benefits of process improvement,
• Introduce CMMI model content.

Objectives

Students completing this course will be able to:

• Understand the benefits of defining an organisation’s processes ,
• Learn about the internal CMMI structure, the concepts and the terminology,
• Understand the possible use of CMMI for the software and/or the system (operations and support) departments,
• Be able to interpret the CMMI properly, essential for those who will be involved as Team Members or Lead Assessors in CMMI assessments.

Audience

• Product developers and process implementers,
• Members of CMMI appraisal teams who require the official SEI authorized training,
• The software and the system communities,
• Managers involved in the development or maintenance of software ,
• Anyone interested in improving quality, productivity or competitiveness through a process approach.

Content

The course contains the following topics:

• Introduction,
• Model-based process improvement,
• Overview of CMMI components,
• Institutionalization,
• Process areas of CMMI models,
• Structure of the continuous and staged representations,
• Next steps.

Course work:

• Reading homework is required the first and second evenings of the course,
• Successful completion of this course requires that participants actively participate in classroom discussions and exercises in all three days, not missing any classroom time.

Course material

On the first day of the course, participants will receive CMMI®: Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement, Second Edition, and a course notebook with copies of the course slides.

Speaker

Roger Gamage is an experienced technical manager with over 30 years in the communications and systems industries, with strong proven project, department and man-management skills, and extensive experience of process management and improvement. He is an extremely knowledgeable and skilled instructor and his courses receive excellent reviews. Roger is also an excellent and dynamic conference presenter who has spoken at a number of high profile events.

Roger is a SEI certified “Introduction to CMMI^®” Instructor, a SEI certifed “CMMI^® for Services Supplement” Instructor and an appraisor (Mini-appraisals (SCAMPI^® C type), SCAMPI^® A & B appraisal team support)

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