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  SEI-Authorized Introduction to CMMI Course Description (Combined Staged and Continuous)

AUDIENCE
Product developers and process implementers
Anyone interested in learning about CMMI

PREREQUISITES
There are no prerequisites for this course.

COURSE LENGTH
Three days

SCHEDULING TOPICS

  • Introduction
  • Model-based process improvement
  • Overview of CMMI components: Process Areas, Goals, Specific and Generic Practices, Subpractices
  • Institutionalization
  • *Appraisal planning and understanding appraisal results*
  • *Comparisons between CMMI, ISO 9001:2000, and Six Sigma*
  • Process areas of CMMI models: Management Process Areas, Engineering Process Areas, Support Process Areas, and Process Improvement Process Areas
  • Structure of the continuous and staged representations
  • **Advanced topics in statistical process control**
  • Next steps
* This is additional material not covered in the standard SEI Introduction to CMMI course.
** This is additional material not covered in the standard SEI Introduction to CMMI course. This material is also covered in our Applying Six Sigma for Software Engineering course.

OBJECTIVES
This course describes the fundamentals of model-based process improvement illustrates the benefits of process improvement introduces CMMI model content. Students completing the course will understand the basic structure of the CMMI, best practices and pitfalls in applying the CMMI, the process areas that make up the CMMI, capability and maturity levels, and CMMI vocabulary.

COURSE WORK
Reading homework is required the first and second evenings of the course.

COURSE MATERIAL
On the first day of the course, participants will receive CMMI: Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement (the hardcover standard CMMI reference book) and a course notebook with copies of the course slides. Students retain all materials after class completion.

 
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