Fort-Ross, SoftJoys, Quality Assurance Institute of India (QAI) to hold an "Intro to CMM" seminar on April 18-20

April 18-20, 2002, Academy of SoftJoys, St.- Petersburg, Russia

Contact information:Valery Andreev
tel.: (7-812) 108-5463, 443-9620;
e-mail: [email protected]

See in the end of the article detailed Russian-language description
of the seminar (Adobe Acrobat, 150K).

Introduction to CMM (SEI official course). 3 days.

1. Course Introduction
2. Software Process Maturity
3. CMM Overview
4. Value of the CMM
5. CMM Structure
6. The Repeatable Level (Level 2)
7. The Defined level (Level 3)
8. The Managed Level (Level 4)
9. The Optimizing Level (Level 5)

Every participant is provided with a set of documentation (appr.200 pages). After the report on the courses of authorized SEI expert is approved by the SEI, the attendees receive official certificates of SEI "Introduction to CMM".

The course will be given by Mr. Ajay Batra, QAI.

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Ajay Batra Consulting Partner, QAI India Ltd

• Work Experience. Over 12 years of professional experience spanning various organizations across the globe.
  
  
• Employment Track. Bellcore, New Jersey (Research Associate), Citibank, New York (Vice President), QAI India Ltd. (Consulting Partner)
  
  
• Software-CMM Consulting. Facilitating process design, implementation and institutionalization of software management and engineering processes. (Partial client list: Mastek, ST Microelectronics, Samsung, Efunds, HCL Infosystems, Sonata)
  
  
• People-CMM Consulting. Enabling design, implementation and institutionalization of people processes (Partial client list: Techspan, Philips, Siemens, Datamatics, Mastek, Aptech)
  
  
• Training. Have trained over 1000 professionals.
  • Public offerings of SEI's official 3-day "Introduction to CMM" workshop in India, USA, Singapore, China, Russia and Slovenia
    
  • Public offering of "Software Risk Management", "Software Configuration Management" courses in India, USA, Singapore, Russia
    
  • Public offering of "Overview of People CMM" in India and Singapore
    
  • In-house programs in CMM, PCMM, Risk Management, Software Quality and Metrics
• Software-CMM Assessments. Official CBA-IPI and baseline/mini/pre assessments. (Partial client list: Siemens, Syntel, Deutsche Bank, Efunds, Satyam)
  
  
• People-CMM Assessments. Official and baseline/mini/pre assessments. (Partial client list: Hughes, Datamatics, Mastek, Siemens, Wipro)
  
  
• Conferences. Presented and selected papers at various international conferences (SEPG Conference, USA, SEPG Conference, India, PCMM Conference, India, SPIN, Hongkong, Computer Society, Singapore, HRD Network, The IndUS Entrepreneur)
  
  
• Professional Recognition. Honours and certifications
  • Asia's first People CMM and Software CMM Lead Assessor
    
  • India's first instructor authorized by the SEI to teach their official "Introduction to CMM" workshop publicly
    
  • Conducted Asia's first PCMM assessment
    
  • Lead world's first PCMM Level 5 assessment
    
  • Certified Quality Analyst (CQA)
• Professional Competencies. Skills for the workplace. (Business acumen, People orientation, Systems mindset, Facilitative, Participative)
  
  
• Academic Achievements. Knowledge baseline
  • M.S. in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
    
  • B.E. in Computer Engineering from Delhi Institute of Technology