System Technology Institute

CMMI

Capability Maturity Model Integration

System Technology Institute Subject Matter Experts developed our CMMI curriculum as well as having been instrumental with the development of the Software Engineering Institute’s CMMI certification process from its inception.

For over twenty-five years as the CMMI course delivery leader, System Technology Institute trained federal government, prime contractors and industry in attaining the skill sets necessary for them to achieve their desired certification level, compliant with DoD standards.

The Advantages of our Approach are:

• Tailored Learning: The course material is tailored to the maturity level aspirations of the client by emphasizing particular level and process areas. Also, there are eight CMMIs to choose among (two representations x four models).
• Illustrations, examples, and interaction: The standard SEI instruction is basically reading slides. Ours is punctuated with illustrations of best practices and tools, animated discussions of how to understand and implement critical process areas, and deep discussions of how the process areas interact with each other and with each other and with current client practices.
• Learner orientation: The standard SEI course is instructor-based, where the “teacher” leads the class. Ours is facilitated by a leader and responds directly to the questions and concerns of the workshop participants.
• Implementation emphasis: We emphasis how to put the CMMI into practice, how to change the ways we work. We emphasize identifying and addressing the barriers and accelerators to implementation.
• View from the life cycle: The CMMI process areas are viewed from the life cycle perspective and not as a collection of (random) disconnected activities. The thick network of interconnections among the process areas is one of the rich features of the CMMI and makes the CMMI a practical basis for managing and developing systems. The standard SEI instruction leaves it to the student to integrate the practices.