Software Process Definition

a
three day course       

Process improvement begins with understanding processes; understanding processes is facilitated with the ability to define processes.

Take this course to learn process definition.

Why Should You Take This Course?

• You want to understand the requirements for process definition
• You need to define software processes in your organization
• You need a practical approach to software process definition
• You want to understand the principles of process architectures, models, and definition

What Will You Learn?

• How to efficiently and effectively define processes to help your business
• How to avoid process definition overkill and bureaucracy
• How to convince managers and engineers of the value of process definitions
• How to identify applicable processes to be defined
• How to develop a process definition policy
• How to develop the process assets required by the SEI's Capability Maturity Model Integarted (CMMI)®
• Requirements of ISO 9001 for process definitions
• Relationships of U.S. government quality and software development standards to process definition
• Relationships to the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
• The risks to your business in not defining processes and managing your process assets
• A practical approach to process definition

Synopsis

To be completed.

Who Should Attend?

• Engineers and managers on software projects
• Software quality assurance (SQA) practitioners
• Software engineering process group (SEPG) practitioners
• Anyone interested in learning effective and efficient approaches to process definition

Course Outline:

• Introduction and course overview
• The IDEAL approach to software process improvement (SPI)
• Process management
  • What is required for success
  • Process assets
  • Levels of process statements
  • Process engineering and design
  • How much is enough?
• Process architecture
  • What is your environment?
  • What tools and methods do you use?
• Relationship to business cycle
  • What business constraints exist?

• Process definition
  • Concepts
  • Representations
  • Forms
  • Characteristics for selection
  • Perspectives
• What does defining a process mean?
  • Documentation elements
  • Environmental elements
  • Problems with definition
  • Process vs written process vs defined process
• Process deployment
  • Process development is a process too
  • How many levels are needed?
  • Getting processes used
  • Barriers to deployment
• A process development process
• Process measurement

• What is needed to meet CMMI® requirements?
• Tailoring the organization standard software process
• Process Technology
  • Assessments
  • Definition
  • Enactment
• Why do any of this anyway?
• ISO 9001 requirements
• Tools and methods

Student Materials:

A complete set of the slides used by the instructor in the course.  Samples process definitions are provided.

The Instructors

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Last modified: March 07, 2007