The workshop takes the position that you pursue process improvement to help your business, not for improvement's sake. Business value of software process improvement in this sense is not limited to commercial organizations, but includes any organization that has a budget and serves internal or external customers.
The SEI's IDEAL approach to integrated process improvement is introduced as a foundation for organized process improvement.
Organizations are different enough that no one approach can fully satisfy all organizations without a tailoring of that approach. Tailoring of the CMMI® is discussed from the perspectives of the attributes of the model which must remain unmodified and those that are modifiable.
Discussion on each of the seven Level 3 Key Process Areas includes:
1) the key concepts perspective
2) Key Practices that define what must be performed in order to achieve goal satisfaction
3) Key Practices mapped to each Goal in the Key Process Area
4) each of the remaining four Common Features (Commitment, Ability, Measurement, and Verification) are mapped to the Goals
5) how an organization might tailor the Key Practices and Common Features, including specific examples
6) inhibitors to achieving the satisfaction of the Key Process Area
7) a discussion of alternatives to what is described in the CMMI®.
- Engineers and managers on software projects
- Software quality assurance (SQA) practitioners
- Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) practitioners
- Anyone interested in achieving Level 3