This webinar will provide systems engineers, software developers, project managers, and process professionals with a basic understanding of how to use the CMMI, a model that is the defacto standard and leading framework for software process improvement.

Our WebStructor is Jeff Dalton, author of the popular blog “Ask the CMMI Appraiser.” Jeff is a Certified SCAMPI Lead Appraiser, Certified CMMI Instructor, Candidate SCAMPI Appraiser Observer, author, and consultant with years of real-world experience with the CMMI in all types of organizations. Jeff is Chairman of the SEI’s Partner Advisory Board and has taught the formal “Introduction to CMMI” three- day class to well over 1500 students and has conducted hundreds of CMMI appraisals.

“It was like being in an MBA class . . . Jeff uses humor and storytelling to teach us about the psychology and philosophy of radical change using the CMMI.” -Webinar attendee.”

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Supervisors aren’t doing them right. Employees hate them. HR departments don’t trust the results, and organizations don’t benefit from them. Performance Appraisals are often negative, sometimes painful, and usually meaningless administrative tours to be endured It doesn’t have to be this way. “Everything You Need to Know: Performance Management” offers a strategy for developing an effective Performance Management program that provides an overall health check-up and framework for aligning the performance of your people with the goals of the organization. The Webinar helps you learn to become the company you want to be by learning to stop doing Performance Management to people, and start doing it for them, giving them the resources they need to be great employees. Designed specifically for organizations that want to align the performance of their people with the goals of the organization, without disrupting the business, “Performance Management” gives you everything you NEED to get started!

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Too often, companies focus on tracking incidences of non-compliance; only to find that everyone fears the audit process (sometimes, even the auditor fears it!) and they aren’t getting any better. A more effective strategy is to emphasize quality over compliance. Establish a structure for collecting data that can help you align your processes with the engineers who are using them, driving quality by providing a direct feed of the QA information collected into process improvement activities.

Designed specifically for organizations that want to now how to create an environment in which people want to be and can be successful, without disrupting the business,“Everything You Need to Know: PPQA!” gives you everything you NEED to get started!

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When the gap between management and engineering is widening …

The auto industry today is replete with internal rancor. While the multi-model approach seemed effective at the time it was introduced, ISO/TS, CMMI and Auto SPICE have been poorly integrated throughout North America, and as a result, management and engineering are acting like independent entities. Miscommunication leads to trust issues arising between the “ISO/TS side of the business” (management) and the “CMMI and Auto SPICE side of the business” (engineering). This mistrust leads to friction, which causes waste.

There are many reasons to pursue a Multi-Model Improvement approach to streamlining and strengthening the way you do business:

• You are tired of wasting effort by doubling your work – i.e., doing your work in one tool and reporting in another
• You are hampered by a widening gap between management and engineering
• You are struggling to improve requirements churn and volatility, meet schedule and budget, and perform the work you do every day
• You want better visibility
• You want to streamline reporting and eliminate duplication and overlap
• You want to retain top employees
• You want to have better quality products
• You want greater customer satisfaction
• You want to prevent losing business to competitors

Join us for the latest Webinar in our “Everything You NEED to Know!” Series: “Multi-Model Improvement.” Designed specifically for organizations that have a CMMI Maturity Level 2 or Level 3 rating and want the benefits of aligning CMMI, ISO/TS and Auto SPICE, “Multi-Model Improvement” gives you everything you NEED to get started!

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When the gap between management and engineering is widening …

The auto industry today is replete with internal rancor. While the multi-model approach seemed effective at the time it was introduced, ISO/TS, CMMI and Auto SPICE have been poorly integrated throughout North America, and as a result, management and engineering are acting like independent entities. Miscommunication leads to trust issues arising between the “ISO/TS side of the business” (management) and the “CMMI and Auto SPICE side of the business” (engineering). This mistrust leads to friction, which causes waste.

There are many reasons to pursue a Multi-Model Improvement approach to streamlining and strengthening the way you do business:

• You are tired of wasting effort by doubling your work – i.e., doing your work in one tool and reporting in another
• You are hampered by a widening gap between management and engineering
• You are struggling to improve requirements churn and volatility, meet schedule and budget, and perform the work you do every day
• You want better visibility
• You want to streamline reporting and eliminate duplication and overlap
• You want to retain top employees
• You want to have better quality products
• You want greater customer satisfaction
• You want to prevent losing business to competitors

Join us for the latest Webinar in our “Everything You NEED to Know!” Series: “Multi-Model Improvement.” Designed specifically for organizations that have a CMMI Maturity Level 2 or Level 3 rating and want the benefits of aligning CMMI, ISO/TS and Auto SPICE, “Multi-Model Improvement” gives you everything you NEED to get started!

Register Today