Software Process Improvement
Standards, Models and Measurement

This three-day course teaches participants how to design, improve and implement software life cycle processes. The course adopts a straightforward approach based on a number of international standards.

The course highlights and explains the differences between a process metamodel, a process framework, an organisation process and a project process. Several well-known process frameworks are described and compared. Participants then learn how to use a framework as the starting point for designing an organisation-specific process. Finally, tailoring guidelines are applied to the creation of a project-specific process.

The importance of measurement as a tool for process improvement course is emphasised throughout the course.

We also offer a one-day Software Process Improvement Essentials course and a two-day Software Process Design and Analysis course.

Course Features

• Concepts are based on widely used international standards.
• Presents a clear, step-by-step approach to process design that is reinforced by practical, hands-on exercises.
• Emphasises the importance of tailoring and the need for a flexible, agile approach to the software life cycle.

Participant Benefits

• Clear understanding of the steps involved in designing a software life-cycle process.
• Ability to immediately apply what has been learnt to the design of software life-cycle processes.
• Ability to identify and define appropriate measures of software process performance and apply statistical process control to a software process.

Who Should Attend

• Managers, Consultants and SEPG Staff.
• Process Improvement, Quality Assurance and other interested IT Staff.

Course Duration

• 3  days

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