Course Overview | Course Objective | Target Audience | Benefits | Pre-requisite | Workshop Contents | Faculty Profile
Overview to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®) for Development, Ver 1.2
April 25 - 26, 2008 @ Bangalore, INDIA
“CMMI® (Capability Maturity Model® Integration) is a process improvement maturity model for the development of products and services. It consists of best practices that address development and maintenance activities that cover the product lifecycle from conception through delivery and maintenance…. CMMI for Development (CMMI-DEV) provides a comprehensive integrated solution for development and maintenance activities applied to products and services.” - SEI
This course provides an overview to CMMI® framework and its fundamental concepts with an emphasis on process areas and maturity levels and staged representation, while providing an overview to continuous representation.
The course helps participants to:
- Understand CMMI® framework, structure, Maturity levels and Process Areas
- Interrelationship among various other quality models / standards like ISO, CMM, PCMM, MBNQA
- Benefits / success stories of CMMI®
- Understand steps to implement CMMI®
- Understand challenges in implementation of CMMI®
- Quality Professionals – SQA and SEPG members
- Practitioners
- Managers
Benefits/Takeaways / Workshop Motivation
The participant can:
- Understand CMMI® for Dev Framework
- Make judgments about applicability and implementation of CMMI® for Dev
- Forecast issues, identify roadblocks specific to their organization for implementation of CMMI® for Dev
Work experience of 1 year in Software development and understanding of entire Software Development Life Cycle
- Introduction
- CMMI® Framework
- Evolution of CMMI®
- Process, Process improvements, Process capability, Process maturity
- Constellations
- Additions
- About CMMI® for Development
- Structure of CMMI® Development
- Staged Representation
- Continuous Representation
- Maturity & Capability Levels
- Components of a Process Area - Specific goals, Generic goals, Specific practices, Generic practices and other components
- Staged Model
- Maturity levels
- Visibility across maturity levels
- Characteristics of each maturity level
- CMMI® Road Map & Appraisals
- Approach for implementation
- SCAMPI Appraisal Methods
- Maturity Level 2 Process Areas
- Requirements Management
- Project Monitoring and Control
- Project Planning
- Supplier Agreement Management
- Configuration Management
- Process and Product Quality Assurance
- Measurement & Analysis
- Maturity Level 3 Process Areas
- Requirements Development
- Technical Solution
- Product Integration
- Verification
- Validation
- Organizational Process Focus
- Organizational Process Definition
- Organizational Training
- Integrated Project Management
- Risk Management
- Decision Analysis & Resolution
- Maturity Level 4 Process Areas
- Organizational Process Performance
- Quantitative Project Management
- Maturity Level 5 Process Areas
- Organizational Innovation and Deployment
- Causal Analysis & Resolution
- Expected benefits of CMMI®
- SEI Reports on benefits of CMMI®
Ashwini has 12+ years of experience in quality across the software and manufacturing industries. She has extensive experience in Process Change Management activities. Ashwini has lead the Project Management Office, Software Quality and Control, and Organizational System Improvement Group as CCB Head. She has been actively providing support to Program Managers, and has contributed in building organizational competencies in metrics collection and analysis.
Ashwini has, prior to this, worked at MindTree Consulting, Honeywell, Motorola, Kshema Technologies and Analog & Digital Systems in roles such as Senior Manager – Quality, Principal Engineer, Group Leader etc.
Ashwini has earned the following accolades:
- Is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and has been involved in Design and delivery of the training structure and course material for Six Sigma training.
- Assessment Team Member in PCMM assessment
- Key role in implementation of Quantitative Process Management KPA
- Lead Project Management Office enabling project management specific activities like estimation and project management competency improvement activities