Workshop Overview

This three-day course introduces systems and software engineering managers and practitioners, appraisal team members, and engineering process group (e.g., SEPG, EPG) members to CMMI® fundamental concepts. CMMI® models are tools that help organizations improve their ability to develop and maintain quality products and services. CMMI® models are an integration of best practices from proven discipline-specifi c process improvement models, including the CMM® for Software, EIA 731, and the Integrated Product Development CMM®.

This course has been updated to be part of Version 1.2 of the CMMI® Product Suite. The course was also improved to respond to change requests submitted by students, instructors, and others.

The course is composed of lectures and class exercises with ample opportunity for participant questions and discussions. After attending the course, participants will be able to describe the components of CMMI® models and their relationships, discuss the process areas in CMMI® models, and locate relevant information in the model. This course fulfi lls a prerequisite requirement for any course requiring an offi cial SEI Introductory CMMI® course.

Workshop Benefits

Successful completion of this course will enable participants to:

  Describe the fundamentals of model-based process improvement
 Illustrate the benefi ts of process improvement
 Introduce CMMI^® model content

Workshop Content

  Introduction
 Model-based process improvement
 Overview of CMMI® components
 Institutionalization
 Process areas of CMMI® models
 Structure of the continuous and staged representations
 Next steps

Who Should Attend

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