Focus

Today, customers are demanding more work for less money while applications are growing in complexity.  This, in conjunction with the intense competition amongst companies, makes it difficult if not almost impossible, to add contingency allowances to contract prices.  In the past, making money in the software industry was a straight forward venture, while nowadays there are too many mitigating factors.   It is clear that something has to change for it is getting harder to find and keep good people, requirements have gotten more complex and costs are skyrocketing.  The answer to this dilemma can be found in the Predictable Professional Performance (PPP) Workshop.

About PPP

This forward-thinking solution is a holistic blend that consists of a better skilled workforce, a slight enhancement in tools, a minor refinement to existing high-quality procedures and methods, a more disciplined data-focused process, and careful, proactive, leadership.  It is time to learn how an enhanced and tailored version of the Personal Software Process (PSP) blended with ideas from the Team Software Process (TSP) and proper usage of Unified Modeling Language (UML) and other Object Oriented (OO) concepts can dramatically improve software development predictability and quality.

Benefits

Although the quality of developers, their tools, and practices are important, they are just not enough to ensure predictability in this day and age.  Learning who, what, and where as well as how and when to deal with these issues is the essence of this workshop.  By the end of this seminar, executives will be able to understand:

Ø      Who would benefit from this workshop?

Ø      Ensuring that this investment actually brings about improvement?

Ø      Why modern tools, best practices, and good workers are not enough?

Ø      Why being Capability Maturity Model (CMM) or CMMI Level 5 is not the key to success?

Ø      What are the skills that software developers typically fail to master, that firms need most?

Ø      How does our enhancement to the PSP differ from other classes and why is adopting these practices a better choice?

Ø      How can the PSP, as taught by the SEI, be enhanced, tailored, and made better to fit into your organization?

Workshop Structure

The Workshop consists of two parts: the Executive Seminar and the Manager Workshop.  Both executives and software managers/professions are encouraged to attend The Executive Seminar, which runs for two days.  This is followed by an additional four day Manager Workshop that is aimed primarily at those charged with making it work.

The Executive Seminar lays a solid foundation where both executives and managers can appreciate the “vision” as well as establish a shared vocabulary.   In addition, the Executive portion provides participants with the detailed knowledge necessary to understand how a more data-driven approach to software development can be made to work and why.

The Manager Workshop builds on the knowledge learned from the Executive Session by identifying specific details about the PSP, the TSP, and the knowledge and skills needed to effectively deploy these technologies into an organization.  Success depends on careful tailoring of the technology to fit the people, the tools, the procedures/methods, and the processes of your firm.  While each of the individual changes in this process is small, in toto adoption of all cannot occur without careful planning and strong leadership.

In addition, the Manager Workshop covers technical, management and adoption issues.   Professionals that complete both seminars will understand the scope of a solution along with the detailed knowledge needed to assess the nature and usefulness of it and the costs and the course of action to adopt it.  The Manager Workshop goes into greater detail than the Executive seminar and is very much a hands-on workshop.

Topics

The Executive Seminar and Manager Workshop cover the following topics:

Ø      The PPP Workshop

Ø       Identifying the problem

Ø      When obvious solutions no longer work

Ø      The NEW solution

Ø      Disciplined leadership is required to make the disciplined use of processes and data work

Ø      The key aspects of a solution with an overview of each aspect

Ø      The Predictable High Performance Team

Ø      Building on PSP/TSP

Ø      Key elements of a successful deployment of PSP/TSP/PPP

The Manager Workshop builds on the common foundation with the following more detailed topics:

Ø      Predictable Performance, a risk management style

Ø      Architecture, design, and dealing with customers -  the lack of predictability yet critical activities

Ø      Work products

Ø      Planning

Ø      Logging

Ø      Reflecting/Improving

Ø      Producing a tailored workshop

Ø      Change management - a strategy for improvement

Ø      Key issues - managing the adoption and the high performance team

Ø      The  difficulties shifting from an ad hoc to a data driven organization

Lynn Robert Carter

This interactive seminar is designed to help software executives move towards a more predictable and profitable software business. Developed by Dr. Lynn Robert Carter of Carnegie Mellon University, the content of this workshop builds on his twelve years of field research for the Software Engineering Institute where he brought new technologies to large commercial, government, and military software development organizations.  Prior to this, his seventeen years of commercial software development, management, and executive experience, in both large and small firms, provided him with the real world experience that the SEI needed.  His recent work in establishing Carnegie Mellon's West Coast Campus, near Mountain View California, has introduced a new professional masters degree type to the CMU mix, a technical alternative to the MBA for software professionals.

PPP Supporting Team

Supporting Dr. Carter is Lakshmi Pratha Hari, one of Dr. Carter’s students and a master graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.  In addition other students such as Praveen Garimella, Prasanna Rambhatla and Murthy have successfully taken and supported Dr. Carter in teaching the Predictable Professional Performance workshop at CMU West.

Venue

International Institute of Information Technology (Deemed University)

Gachibowli

Hyderabad – 500 019

Tel: 91-40-2300 1967

Fax: 91-40-2300 1413

URL: http://iiit.net

http://iiit.ac.in

About IIIT

The International Institute of Information Technology (formerly Indian Institute of Information Technology), Hyderabad is an autonomous, self-supporting institution started in 1998 with seed support from the Government of Andhra Pradesh. A major goal of IIIT is to impart a uniquely broad and interdisciplinary IT education of the highest academic quality. This is achieved through an integrated curriculum that consists of a highly diverse set of IT courses, interdisciplinary IT research projects, day-to-day interaction with industry, preparation in entrepreneurship and personality development courses.

Coordinator

R K Bagga, Advisor

Outreach Division

IIIT, Gachibowli

Hyderabad – 500 019

Tel 2300 1967 Ex:119

Mobile: 98492-51716

rbagga@iiit.net