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We help your organization improve

Since 1990, we have improved the performance of 500+ companies in the U.S., U.K., Switzerland, Canada, India, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Singapore, China, Saudi Arabia, and Japan.

Your next step

  • Contact us at no charge to discuss your needs — read our testimonial page or ask to speak to an existing client
  • Build a custom agenda of topics you need help on, or start with one of our existing workshops
  • Select on-site or on-line working sessions (e.g., on-line one-on-one sessions and team coaching or Anytime webinars to save on travel)

 

Recorded Classes

  • “Avoiding a Project Death March” Read more
  • “Achieving CMMI-Development Maturity Levels 2 & 3 Efficiently” Read more
  • “Achieving CMMI-Services Maturity Levels 2 & 3 Efficiently” Read more

Scrum/Agile Workshop

  • Implement Scrum/Agile
  • Learn about all of the extra bits needed to make Agile a complete solution
  • Learn to integrate Scrum/Agile with CMMI, PMBOK or your current practices
  • Fix current Scrum/Agile challenges, e.g., chaos, no requirements, no estimates, no end in sight
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Get My Project Organized and Skilled in One Week Workshop

  • Learn Scrum/Agile
  • Learn to elicit, write, analyze, and manage requirements
  • Learn to estimate, plan, assess project risks, and negotiate with customers and management
  • Learn to find defects quickly and thoroughly using inspections
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Best Practices with CMMI Workshop

  • Improve your capability at delivering software, systems, and services
  • Adopt best practices to decrease defects, rework, cost, time-to-market, and risk
  • Learn to integrate CMMI with Scrum/Agile, PMBOK, ISO or any combination
  • Fix current CMMI challenges, e.g., unuseful or heavy-weight process implementations
  • Read more — CMMI Summary — CMMI workshops — CMMI Recorded Classes — CMMI Consulting — Appraisals — Integration with Agile/PMBOK

Custom Appraisal of Your Current Practices

  • Evaluate your organization’s engineering and project management practices — determine what works and what does not
  • Optionally, compare with published framework practices (e.g., Agile/Scrum, ISO, or PMBOK)
  • Obtain consensus on your strengths and opportunities for improvement
  • Set improvement priorities by mapping the appraisal findings to your business goals
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Project Management Workshop

  • Meet project deadlines and reduce surprises
  • Manage project expectations among team members, customers, marketing, and management
  • Learn to integrate practices from CMMI, Scrum/Agile, or PMBOK
  • Fix current challenges, e.g., chronic overcommitment, chaos, and overruns
  • Read more — Project Management — Online Recorded Class — Only Risk Management — Only Estimation

Software Requirements Workshop

  • Understand customer needs and clarify product requirements early
  • Manage customer expectations and scope changes
  • Go beyond Agile user stories with other types of requirements
  • Fix current requirements challenges, e.g., no requirements, ambiguous requirements, and unmanaged changes
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Find Defects with Peer Reviews Workshop

  • Avoid schedule delays caused by needless product rework
  • Significantly reduce maintenance costs
  • Make current reviews faster and thorough
  • Fix current defect challenges, e.g., rework, quality and your company’s image, and projects stuck in final test
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Manage Suppliers Workshop

  • Select which projects to outsource
  • Select qualified suppliers
  • Manage your outsourced project
  • Fix current supplier challenges, e.g., “suppliers continually surprise us, we can’t deliver on time”
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Time Management Workshop

  • Understand the cycle for managing all work
  • Understand key time management principles to achieve more
  • Reduce and manage interruptions
  • Optimize work with remote teams
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Custom Help and Other Sessions

  • Custom help on any topic; contact us to discuss your needs
  • Anytime webinars for your group


Each service includes:

  • Accomplishing real work during all of our workshops and sessions so that no time is lost [examples]
  • Scaling our advice to your size (whether you are a 2-person team or 1,000-person organization)
  • Complimentary technical support for each service, and briefings to management and other groups

Process-Group-Reverse-Blue-logoThe Process Group helps you improve your organization's capability to routinely meet deadlines and delivery quality expectations. We are certified CMMI appraisers / trainers and Certified Scrum Masters.

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