These Tutorials will be led by:

Denise CATTAN:     Preparing CMMI 4&5
Tom GILB:             The Evolutionary Project Management Method
Grant RULE:           COSMIC Functional Size Measurement

 

Cattan, Denise
	Preparing CMMI 4&5 Being able to improve significantly, the performance of critical processes is an objective which can be reached under some conditions. The tutorial will go through the main steps to achieve such conditions: 1 - Know the measure accuracy 2 - Know the influence of parameters 3 - Model the process 4 - Estimate process changes 5 - Implement process changes Top
Gilb, Tom
	The Evolutionary Project Management Method Practical Rules, Principles & Templates to Practice Evolutionary Project Management A practical and proven way to manage any project with focus on high, immediate, measurable, estimated, continuous, stakeholder-value delivery Most people have only learned some form of 'Waterfall'  (Grand Design) project management. It is obsolete and dangerous to the health of your project. ‘Evo’ is the most successful alternative project management method, if you look at practical experience, and is now a 'mandatory guideline' at US DoD. Isn't it about time you learned more about it? It is primarily based on software metrics This tutorial will supply the participant with the pragmatics of doing evolutionary project management - The Evo toolkit. How do you specify objectives quantitatively that you can evolve towards in small steps? How do you specify designs, and their quantitative impact on requirements,  that can be decomposed into smaller delivery steps? How do you specify and control, numerically, evolutionary stakeholder-value-delivery steps themselves? The toolkit gives practical help. The standards, the processes, the templates, patterns, examples Evo has major impact on the whole way in which systems engineering is carried out. All systems engineering processes (requirements, design, build, test, and quality control) are suddenly encapsulated into an early and frequent evolutionary result delivery step. The entire process differs from current Agile processes, by being far more quantitative. If you know what you are doing, you will soon produce measurable results for stakeholders. If not, you won’t; and must consequently fix your engineering processes and designs. Who Should Attend:  Metrics Consultants and teachers, project managers, managers of project managers, software process specialists, IT Directors, software product company managers.   Content: 1.The Evo process description: metrics for project management. 2. Basic Evo principles: why they are all based on practical metrics 3. Principles for decomposing into small Evo steps, 2% of budget. 4. Defined Evo processes: quantification of requirements, design quantification. Project progress quantification, maintenance metrics 5. Templates for Quantified Requirements and Quantified Design 6. Templates for Quantified Evo step specification 7. Quantified Design Impact Estimation Table Evo project management 8. Evo Policy template: Policies that demand everyday metrics 9. Organizational considerations when doing Evo: avoiding resistance to metrics 10. Evo contracting template: pay for measurable results Top

Rule, Grant

COSMIC Functional Size Measurement: estimating and measuring project performance Welcome & Introductions Review Participants' Objectives Session #0 - Introduction to COSMIC v3.0 Purpose and objectives of COSMIC Applicability of the method Session #1 - The COSMIC software models Functional User Requirements The COSMIC Software Context Model The COSMIC Generic Software Model Session #2 – Overview of the COSMIC measurement process The Measurement Strategy Phase The Mapping Phase The Measurement Phase Recap progress so far Lunch Break Session #3 – Case Study: COSMIC in practice Including post-prandial exercise Session #4 – Estimating & measuring process performance Using COSMIC for estimating Modelling process performance Question & Answer Session for Day #1 Summary - Review Participants' Objectives - Next Steps Top