- You need to begin a software
process improvement (SPI) effort, but are not sure how to
start
- You are beginning a SPI initiative
in your organization
- You want to understand how to focus
on high payback areas for process improvement
- You want to modify and adapt the
IDEAL approach to meet your organization's business needs
- You want to relate SPI to our
organization's bottom line
- How to efficiently and effectively
apply SPI to help your business
- Fundamentals and purpose of SEI's
original IDEAL definition
- Extensions made to IDEAL to help
achieve successes with SPI
- Details of the five phases in the
IDEAL software process improvement life cycle
- Why the IDEAL model is a software
process improvement life cycle
- The elements of each phase that
enable SPI success
- Why SPI is a business opportunity
and why you should use it in your business
- Overview of the CMM®
- Benefits of SPI and positive
experiences of other organizations
- The ETVX paradigm for each SPI
activity
- How to manage SPI as a project
- Barriers to SPI
- Who participates in the activities
by role type and what is expected of them
- Skills and knowledge needed by the
participants
- Risks of not sufficiently
performing the activities in the IDEAL phases
- How do you know when you have
sufficiently completed each activity, sub-part, and phase
- How to measure the business value
of your SPI efforts