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Implementing an Organization or Company-Wide Software Process Improvement (SPI) Program Workshop |
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SECC organized a workshop titled Implementing an Organization or Company-Wide Software Process Improvement (SPI) Program, this workshop was held from 2 to 3 June, 2002. |
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Training Overview
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In order to successfully implement a continuous software process improvement (SPI) program across an organization or a company, it is necessary to establish appropriate supporting mechanisms. These include roles and responsibilities in the organization, processes and procedures to support SPI and quality management, as well as resource allocation that provides proper role balance, training, measurements, and tracking of progress.
Many of these supporting mechanisms are suggested by the practices associated with the Institutionalization Common Features (CFs) in the SEI CMM:
Building these into the design of the organization and its processes can help establish SPI as an on-going capability of the organization, able to withstand changes in the organization over time.
This training course provides details on how to create these SPI support mechanisms in new or existing organizations.
Particular attention will be paid to providing the appropriate balance of resource allocation to the various roles, in order that SPI and quality management efforts are successful.
Case studies from organizations that have successfully accomplished this will be used, illustrating the implementation of these concepts as well as other CMM concepts.
Issues associated with organizational change will also be covered in the course.
The participants will develop plans for applying these ideas to their own organizations in each of the areas discussed.
They will also identify potential barriers to improvement and suggest actions to address these barriers.
In addition, the course will address the beneficial use of assessments and will describe preparatory steps for a CMM assessment.
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Topics Covered
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Review of CMM components.
Organization culture and change concepts.
Fundamental principles of quality and SPI.
Institutionalization Common Features of the CMM.
Organization structures to support quality and SPI.
Project organization to support quality and SPI.
Roles and responsibilities for organizations and projects.
Resource allocation for role balance.
SPI processes and procedures.
Quality management.
SPI policy development and implementation.
Training issues.
Hiring and staffing considerations.
Case studies from existing organizations.
Beneficial use of assessments.
Preparing for CMM assessments.
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Audience
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Prerequisites
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The workshop should include at least one representative of all companies to undergo a CBA IPI or gap analysis. This person must have attended the SEI – Introduction to CMM® course. He will serve as the site coordinator for the CBA IPI or gap analysis. With the knowledge from this workshop, the organization can prepared to have the assessment completed in one visit of the lead assessor.
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Instructor Short Bio
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Richard E. Barbour:
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The Vice president of Technical Consulting at Carnegie Global Technologies Inc. He is also a Visiting Scientist with the software Engineering institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He has over 28 years of experience in managing and acquiring software systems. He is a qualified SCAMPI Lead appraiser , CBA-IPI Lead Assessor , and lead Evaluator for the CMM for Software (SW-CMM).He is also a qualified instructor for the introduction to CMMI , Introduction to the SW-CMM, Introduction to SA-CMM ,SCE V3.0 Team Training, and the SEI Continuous risk Management Course.
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