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Improving Software & Engineering Development Processes

Executive Overview of the CMMI
Description: This informative half-day overview and introduction establishes a conversational familiarity with the model.  Geared toward senior IT executives, key technical staff members and business managers, our Executive Overview will assist your team in gaining an understanding of the basic structure and significant benefits that can be realized by adopting the CMMI as the process improvement framework for your software development organization.

Practitioner Overview of the CMMI
Description: This informative full-day overview and introduction establishes a conversational familiarity with the model.  Geared toward software development and support practitioners, our Practitioner Overview will assist your team in gaining an understanding of the basic structure and significant benefits that can be realized by adopting the CMMI as the process improvement framework for your software development organization.  This course, while superficially similar to the Executive Overview course, places a greater emphasis on the structure and content of the model.

Introduction to the CMMI for Development v1.2
Description: This introductory course is designed to provide a basic understanding of software process improvement and an overview of the model.   Intro to CMMI for Dev. v1.2 is required for key staff members who will be assisting on formal appraisal, and is essential for those within the organization who are responsible for initiating and developing the organization's process improvements.  This three day courses include handouts, classroom materials, exercises and a copy of the model text for each attendee.

General Model Training
Description: These one-day courses cover individual components of the model in greater depth than the introductory course described above.  These courses may be customized and are taught on an as needed basis.  Courses include handouts, classroom materials and exercises.  

These courses are available for the CMMI's Process Areas (PAs), Categories, and other Systems and Software Development, Management and Support topics.

Assess-IT is authorized to provide Standard and High Maturity Appraisals both Domestically and Internationally.

Maturity Profile
Description: This multi-day evaluation is used to benchmark your organization to the model's process maturity or capability scale. Typically a profile is used to provide a rough evaluation of the current state of your organization's software development processes.  It should be recognized that this benchmark evaluation is part of a staged approach to help your organization integrate a continuous improvement methodology, it is not intended to replace a SCAMPI appraisal.

Limited Scope Appraisal
Description: This is a formal appraisal conducted by an SEI trained and authorized Lead Appraiser.  However, the scope of the appraisal is limited to a particular project or the particular aspect of the organization that is proving to be challenging.  The limited scope appraisal has many of the benefits of a formal appraisal, but by its very nature is not as intrusive or disruptive to the organization.  This is the appropriate route to take if there is a particularly troubling problem that you are looking for solutions to so you can get off the mark and begin your full scale process improvement efforts.

Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI)
Description: This is a full SCAMPI Appraisal conducted by an SEI trained and authorized SCAMPI Lead Appraiser; it is a diagnostic and intervention tool that provides an in depth look at your organization's software development and management practices.  A SCAMPI Appraisal requires a significant investment of time and resources and achieves a high level of staff participation and "ownership" of the results.  The resulting Appraisal Artifacts serve as the foundation for your organization's action planning and continuous process improvement effort.

Pre and Post Appraisal Consulting
Description: Supplementing your staff, our process improvement consultants cover the full gamut of software development processes and lifecycles and a variety of different market sectors. We are available as full time on-site consultants or on an as needed basis.  We have partnered with a limited number of leased-staff or staff augmentation companies.  Our goal is to provide you with qualified, local staff to supplement your organization, while at the same time helping to contain the costs associated with out of town consultants.