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Introduction to CMMI v_1.3

Description

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-specific process improvement models.
This course fulfills a prerequisite requirement for any course requiring an official SEI Introductory ®CMMI course.

Target participants

The audience of this course is: product developers and process implementers and anyone interested in learning about ®CMMI.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Methodology

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.

Material

We will be using the official course material from SEI in English, composed by:

Copy of slides
Exercises
Copy of ®CMMI Model

Major Topics

Model introduction
Process Improvements
®CMMI components overview
Institutionalization
Capability and maturity levels
Project Management Process Areas
Support Process Areas
Engineering Process Areas
Process management Process Areas
Continuous and Staged representations

General information

This is a three days training on-site
Investment : U$900
Class size: minimum of 8 students.
Additional travel expenses
Contact: cmmi@crestconsulting.com.br
All course material is in English.

Antonio Braga is a ®CMMI Instructor authorized by SEI (Software Engineering Institute). He has more than 30 years experience in software development, project management and methodologies. He is an electronic engineering graduated by UERJ (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro). He wrote and published many articles. He also published the book Function Point Analysis in 1995. He was certified as CFPS(Certified Function Points Specialist) by IFPUG (International Function Points Users Group) in 1997.
Braga was approved in the courses: Intermediate ®CMMI, ®CMMI Instructor Training and ®CMMI Lead Appraiser Training conducted in SEI (Pittsburgh - US). He conducted more than 80 Appraisals as ®CMMI Lead Appraiser.

He conducted more than 30 times the Introduction to CMMI course