Effective Risk Management: Techniques for Software Process Improvement Projects (AKA #5)

This tutorial covers AKA area #5 of the International Software Process Improvement Certification (ISPIC) requirements.

Concepts

Software Process Improvement projects face a high failure rate. This failure rate reflects inadequate planning to address the common risk and issues that set these projects up for failure. Software development projects have identified risks that are common to projects based on size, development language, platform etc. What are the typical barriers to successful SPI? How you overcome these barriers and succeed at culture change is a critical element in the project's success. This course addresses effective techniques that can be used in software process improvement projects to manage risk and issues.

Participants will learn:

• Identify key elements of change and change projects that provide a basis for obstacles that improvement projects face
• Learn how to identify common SPI project risks and strategies for addressing them
• Learn effective techniques to managing SPI projects including the common risk and barriers

Outline

• Module 1: Understanding Change and Organizational Change Projects
• Module 2: Effectively managing organizational change projects
  • Effective Change Implementation Plan
    • Time frames for change process
    • Changing people
    • Changing with correct tools
  • Module 3: Changing an Organization?: Common Risks & Strategies