Grow Your it Career with CMMI: Leverage a Global Standard to Accelerate Your Journey to the Top

2017 | Business & Finance

This book explains the CMMI and Agile methods, and presents a usable and easy-to-understand framework for the reader to adopt in as they move up in their career. It provides a step-by-step guide for using CMMI, which has been adopted by thousands of companies around the globe, as a framework for personal IT career growth. Based on the global framework that is recognized by government, industry, and technology firms as the de-facto standard for a high-performance technology organization, Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) has been adopted by more than 20,000 companies world-wide, and continues to grow at an annual rate of 15% per year in North America, China, India, and other industrialized and transitional nations. Grow Your IT Career with CMMI provides IT professionals with a proven framework for accelerating their entry-level IT job as a programmer, analyst, tester, or project manager into a successful, high-performing career leading to technical leadership as a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, VP or Product Development, Quality, or IT Services.

The book: * Provides young IT professionals with best practices and globally-proven tools to accelerate their careers. * Helps you demonst rate business savvy and the ability to define problems and solutions clearly, deliver solutions-not just software-to your customers on-time and on-budget. * Helps you hit the ground running and be productive right out of the gate, while providing value for your customers every minute. What you'll learn * A framework to help you provide the highest-value services and products to your organization * A model for improving your personal, team, and company performance * How to measure your success and demonstrate value to your company * How to eliminate chaos and uncertainty, allowing you to focus on growing your career * How to prepare to be a technical leader in your organization Who This Book Is For Software developers, project managers, business analysts, quality assurance and test engineering, technical architects, integrati on engineers, scrum masters, scrum team members.

Jeff Dalton (Author)