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Register Today for this SEI Authorized Course:

Introduction to CMMI V1.2 ~  November 7 - 9, 2007 ~  Pittsburgh, PA

We offer CMMI training for a nationwide audience. With a different location each month, we are sure one of our courses will be an easy trip for you.  For the convenience of domestic and international participants, all our courses are located near major airports at hotels that offer free airport shuttle service

Articles:

• Software Project Management Training

• Choosing the Right Course

Product Descriptions:

• Managing Software Projects

• Leading Software Projects

• Six Sigma Software Project Management

Six Sigma Software Project Management

Length:       5 days

Learning Methods:    Lecture and exercises

Location:    Client Site

Includes:    Lecture notes, textbooks, software

Description: Six Sigma Software Project Management provides a firm grasp of project management methods and techniques in the context of software development, but it also goes far beyond the typical PMBOK training class by providing specific detailed methods for managing the software development process’s cause and effect relations, from a Six Sigma Perspective, illustrating how to make effective use of the Six Sigma toolkit to managed project performance.  It is targeted for an organization that has a Six Sigma initiative, but can be of great value anywhere there is a focus on metrics and fact-based management.  It can be used to train project managers or as an elective in a Black Belt training program.

Tailoring:    On request

Who should attend this course:

• First and second level software project leads and experienced software engineers making the transition to team leader.

Learning objectives:

• Give participants the skills to pro-actively manage mid- to large-size software development projects

• Provide an introduction to estimating, planning, status tracking and risk management for software that emphasizes the special features and needs of software development

• Show participants how to generate a software development plan

• Provide participants with an understanding of software development economics and the mechanisms available to control project performance

• Understand how to create and use a software quality plan to control product quality

• Understand how specific management mechanisms control each phase of the software development life cycle

• Understand how to use six sigma techniques to recognize problems and adverse trends and to take corrective actions

Topics:

Role of the Manager

Engineering Software Products

• Scaling up Development Practices

• Life Cycles

• Evolutionary Development

• Development Processes

  • RUP, Extreme Programming, TSP

Measurement

• Metrics Framework

• Measuring Product Size

• Measuring Product Quality

• Understanding Variation

• Process Performance

• Data confidentiality

Process Modeling

• Software Process Cause & Effect Relationships

• Software Development Economics

• Defects

• Yields & the Hidden Factory

Planning

• Goals

• Organization & Teamwork

• Documentation & Deliverables

• Typical Work Breakdown Structures

• Task Entry & Exit Criteria

• Identifying Tasks

• Task Dependencies & Pert Charts

• Cost Accounts, Cost Account Managers, & Planning Packages

• Subcontracting

Estimating

• Estimating Product Size

• Estimating Development Effort

• Estimating Product Quality

• Estimating Maintenance Tasks

• Estimating Integration & Test Tasks

Statistics of Estimating

• Dealing with Uncertainty

• Bounding Errors

• Combining Estimates

Scheduling

• Staffing

• Scheduling

• Critical Path

Risks

• Identification & mitigation plans

• Avoiding Common Risks

Status Tracking

• Work Packages

• Earned Value, SPI & CPI

• Granularity

• Variance Analysis

• Tracking Progress during Integration & Test

Status Tracking (cont'd)

• Tracking Progress for Maintenance Activities

• Plan to Go

• Effective Status Meetings

Controlling Project Performance

• Open-loop vs. Closed Loop Systems

• Measurements, feedback, & corrective actions

• Run Charts

• Managing with variation

• Identifying Special Causes

• Recognizing trends and shifts

• Root Cause Corrective Actions

• Post Mortem Analysis

• Process Improvement

Managing Project Performance

• Managing Customer Expectations

• Managing Cost, Schedule, & Product Quality

• Staff Availability & Time Management

• Critical Path management & dynamic load balancing

• Defect Management

• Risk Management

Managing Critical Sub-Processes

• Requirements Analysis

• Dealing with Change

• Design

  • Goal & Methods

  • Prototyping

  • Dealing with Redundancy

  • Defect Prevention

  • Complexity & Effective Testing

  • Achieving Effective Reuse

  • Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS)

• Inspections

  • Optimizing an Inspection Process

• Integration & System Test

  • Dealing with Redundancy

  • Defect Management & Orthogonal Defect Classification

  • Cost & Schedule Management

  • Release Criteria

• Getting Value from Configuration Management & Quality Assurance

Personnel Management

• Teams ,Teambuilding & Project Launches

• Commitments & commitment discipline

• Coaching

• Performance Evaluation

• Common Problems

Avoiding Failure

• Common Failure Mechanisms

• Counterproductive management practices

• Excessive Process Overhead

Effective Post-Mortems