Training

If you wish to learn how to improve development processes or to improve solutions management partially or completely dependent on software, Alcyonix proposes awareness and training.

Awareness Sessions on Software Process Improvement for Executives

Your company or organization is not yet fully committed to a disciplined process improvement initiative.  However, your clients are pushing you in that direction by asking you to reveal your process "level of maturity" or to show your improvement plan. Perhaps some clients are showing reluctance to do business with you unless you take quality targeted initiatives using a Best Practice reference framework such as the SEI's ("Software Engineering Institute") CMMI ("Capability Maturity Model Integrated") or the model described in the emerging ISO/CEI 15504 Standard (SPICE).
It is also possible that your specialists, those most aware of market tendencies and the state of the art practices, are presenting you with daring proposals in order to initiate a continuous process improvement plan. All studies show that the clear and continuous commitment from upper management constitutes the key success factor of a software process improvement initiative.  If not already done, your executives should be made aware.

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Official SEI Course "Introduction to Capability Maturity Model Integration V1.2"

Alcyonix is an official SEI Partner and has several instructors authorized to give the course "Introduction to Capability Maturity Model Integration", in French and English. This course offers participants a good description of the CMMI and its fundamental concepts. The discussions held within the framework of the course put the emphasis on the comprehension of the five maturity levels and their regrouping by sectors (Areas Process). In three days, we describe a framework of good practices that organizations can use to determine their capacity to develop and maintain systems and to obtain an improvement plan. This course is composed of presentations and exercises. It supports participation and discussions between the participants. Moreover, this course prepares the participants to contribute directly to the implementation of the CMMI in their organizations.

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Official SEI Course "TSP ^ms/PSP ^ms" (Team Software Process/Personal Software Process)

Discover a proven method that allows your teams to develop high quality product while improving the productivity!

Introduce a method that allows teams to develop high quality product and improve productivity.  This is what Team Software Process/Personal Software Process is all about.  Largely implemented in Mexico and progressing rapidly in Asia, TSP provides both strategies and procedures for teams which want to track progress against their project plans. PSP, a more individualized methodology, illustrates to managers and engineers the value of planning and tracking projects as well as the value of effective quality management and the importance of involving engineers in process measurement, management, and improvement.

A few benefits of TSP/PSP:

Being personally involved in the project, an accurate estimation of cost and delay, proactive approach to gaps, personal involvement in product quality, delivering a high quality product.

 

Official SEI TSP/PSP training offered by Alcyonix:

• TSP Team Member training (a public course in 2009, see our calendar)
• PSP Fundamentals
• PSP advanced
• Leading a development Team

CMMI related and Practical Process Improvement training/workshops offered by Alcyonix

• Methods for planning, monitoring and controlling projects
• Managing change in a Process Improvement context
• CMMI -DEV Level 2 Step by Step
• CMMI -DEV Level 2 to level 3
• How to Perform your Own CMMI Gap Analysis
• Tools and methods for managing virtual teams
• Process Improvement Do's and Don'ts

For more information on our in-house training or if you would like us to customize training for your organization, send your request by email to proposition@alcyonix.com.