If you are a software engineer or IT professional, your group has very likely shown a strong interest in reducing costs, improving quality and productivity. Your group might also have looked at various pre-packaged frameworks, such as Agile (e.g., Scrum and Extreme Programming), CMMI and Six Sigma.

At first glance, each of these frameworks might look at odds with each other, making it difficult to use two or more. This typically occurs because much of the information shared regarding these frameworks is from success and failure stories, rather than understanding the specifics of each framework. Each framework can be implemented successfully depending on how much care is placed on its implementation.

In this session, CMMI and Scrum are compared since they are two commonly used frameworks, and ones that groups struggle with when using them together.

Who should attend?

This session is for managers and practitioners who are either starting out and wanting to use CMMI and Agile together, or ones that have adopted one of the frameworks and wish to implement the other.

Topics covered:

* Definition of Scrum and CMMI

* CMMI and Scrum mapping
- Requirements Management
- Project Planning
- Project Monitoring and Control

* How about the other components of Level 2?
- Configuration Management
- Product and Process Quality Assurance
- Supplier Agreement Management
- Generic Practices

* How about Level 3?
- Organizational Process Focus
- Organizational Process Definition
- Organizational Training
- Integrated Project Management
- Risk Management
- Decision Analysis and Resolution
- Engineering Specific Practices (e.g., requirements validation and verification data analysis)
- Generic Goal 3 (i.e., using an organization-wide and tailored process with measurements)