2009 IPPSS Course Offerings

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Improving Process Performance using Six Sigma (IPPSS)

2009 Course Offerings

 Course Description

This five-day SEI-Licensed course takes a hands-on, problem-solving approach to data analysis, providing participants with a toolkit of analysis methods and how to leverage industry best practices such as Six Sigma and Goal-Driven Software Measurement. Key concepts in data analysis (including statistical thinking, the 7 Basic Tools, and root cause analysis) are introduced through lectures and extensive practice sessions using real-life case studies and project data. Participants learn a framework in the form of tools, methods, and practices for analyzing data to make more informed business decisions about project and process performance, quality, schedule and cost. The ways in which these quality measurement practices relate to improvement models such as Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI®) are also discussed.

The course is composed of lectures, class exercises, and evening reading assignments with ample opportunity for participant questions and discussions.  Emphasis is placed on “hands on learning”.  This course is rich is case studies to put learning on a more practical level allowing participants to immediately apply what they learned in their organization.  Organizations just beginning their improvement program can benefit as well by understanding how to lay the foundation needed in the measurement program to pave the way for quantitative control of processes as the organization matures.

Anyone seeking a practical way to analyze quantitative data in support of organizational process improvement programs should consider taking this course.  This includes process developers, improvement group members, measurements team members, Six Sigma black belts, green belts and belt candidates and anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of using Six Sigma to help improve processes.

Course Benefits

  • Practitioners’ approach – includes practical use to statistics in the real world – not statistical theory and formulas

  • Does not just focus on continuous data (rooted in the manufacturing and equipment measurement world)

  • Contains real world examples from the Software and System Development world

  • IPPSS overcomes the “fear” of statistics and puts it back in the hands of the practitioners and executives that can benefit the most from quantitative management and improvement.

Course Prerequisites

Before registering for this course, participants must

  • Be familiar with measurement projects or processes from their home organization.

  • Be familiar with establishing a measurement infrastructure, particularly using Goal-Driven Measurement.

Before attending this course, participants must

  • Install their student license of a statistics package, identified in the student pre-course letter, and confirm that the software opens and functions.

  • Read the background material on earned value measurement, Goal-Driven Measurement, and the SEI's Goal-Question-(Indicator)-Metric (GQ(I)M) methodology sent to them.

Required Equipment:

Students must bring a personal computer equipped with:

  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 3, Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2k Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2, or Windows Vista (tested on Windows Vista Enterprise, Business, Home Premium, and Home Basic Editions)

  • Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003, or 2007

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later

  • Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (or 3.0 with Windows XP versions or Vista)

  • Pentium-equivalent microprocessor (800 MHz or faster)

  • at least 512 MB of RAM

  • at least 88 MB of hard disk space for .NET Framework 2.0 and another 58 MB for .NET Framework 3.0 (if not already installed) and at least 400 MB for additional application0s to be installed.  (Note:  Each of the first two components listed requires approximately twice the given amount of disk space during installation.)

  • CD-ROM drive or USB port

  • video graphics adapter and monitor with at least 1024x768 resolution

  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 or later

Course Logistics

Location

Course Dates

Advance Registration and Payment  Deadline

 Address of Course

Fairfax, VA

19 - 23 Jan

05 Jan

Residence Inn Fair Lakes

12815 Fair Lakes Parkway

San Jose, CA

13 - 17 Apr

31 Mar

TBD

Fairfax, VA

20 - 24 Jul

06 Jul

Residence Inn Fair Lakes

12815 Fair Lakes Parkway

Dallas, TX

02 - 06 Nov

19 Oct

TBD

 

 

 

Prior to Advance Reg/Pay Deadline

After Advance Reg/Pay Deadline

 

Cost

USD$2300

USD$2500

 

See Registration form below!!

 

Prices include course notebook (including modules, exercise, real-life project form, references), Laminated Basic Statistics Reference, Six Sigma Advance Tools Pocket Guide by Rath & Strong, CMMI and Six Sigma: Partners in Process Improvement by Siviy, Penn, and Stoddard; Measuring the Software Process by Florac and Carlton; and Electronic student files, as well as Breakfast, Lunch, and coffee breaks for the five days.

Click here to Register Online

For More Information Contact:

Process Improvement for the 21st Century, Inc.
8601 Beech Hollow Lane

Springfield, VA 22153-3440
Tel: (1) 703 866-5556
FAX: (1) 703 866-5554
Internet: Info@PI-21.com

 

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