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Software Project Management Training PS&J Software Six Sigma offers a full line of project management training tailored to the needs of software development. Our courses encapsulate 50 years of hands on experience with software project management across multiple application domains including aerospace, industrial automation and controls, financial services, medical instrumentation, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. All of PS&J Software Six Sigma's courses are about managing real world software development. They are not focused on project management technique. Training that covers only the mechanics and generalities of project management cannot provide the level of depth and understanding that project managers require in order to address the unique issues influencing software development today. Although we provide comprehensive explanations of estimating algorithms, earned value, risk management, and all the traditional topics, our focus is always managing software development. Your managers learn how to dramatically improve the probability of bringing their software projects to a successful conclusion. Managing a software development program differs from managing many other efforts because the product is essentially intangible until it reaches system integration and test. Managers often rely on the word of their developers or team leads in order to track progress. Frequently, they are given an overly optimistic assessment of program progress, only to be surprised by reality at a future date. Often, this leads to a situation where the project is 90% complete with no real end in sight. Many experienced managers are unsuccessful at managing software programs because they don’t understand the fundamental cause and effect relations of the software development process. They try to directly manage the results, such as cost and schedule, rather than manage the underlying causes. These managers don’t have very much leverage over their projects, because they don’t know the right points to which to take effective corrective actions. Frequently their actions are counterproductive. PS&J Software Six Sigma's management courses confront this problem head on by teaching our students the basic economics of the software development process. Our students are successful because they learn the cause and effect relationships that control development process, and, ultimately, project performance. They learn how to avoid common pitfalls, collect the right metrics, generate realistic plans, recognize problems early, and exploit the points of maximum leverage in the software development process by taking timely and effective corrective actions. We provide our students with specifics on effectively managing all the key software development sub-processes, helping them strike a balance between an environment with too little structure and one with the high process overheads common in many CMM level 3 organizations. The effect is to transform our students’ approach to management. The net result is empowerment as their focus shifts from tracking and reporting actuals to managing performance. When effective processes are combined with pro-active management, we frequently see initial estimates that are accurate to 20%, “estimates to go” that are accurate to 5%, and productivity improvements of 20% to 50%. |
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Contact PS&J Software Six Sigma at: Phone: 201-947-0150; 201-358-8828 E-mail: Quality@SoftwareSixSigma.com Copyright © 2001-2006 PS&J Software Six Sigma, All rights reserved. Revised: July 14, 2011 . PSPSM, TSPSM and CMMISM are service marks of Carnegie Mellon University. CMM® and IDEAL® are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. PMBOK® and PMP® are registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute. |
