SICE 2.0 Assessor Training
                        23.-27.7.2001
        ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen, Germany

Background
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ZF (a major supplier company in the automative sector), and ISCN (a well
known network of experts and partners in process improvement), together
with original authors from SPICE materials hold a SPICE 2.0
workshop in July each year for the electronics, automotive, telecom and
aerospace industry.
The workshop in 2000 was a big success with participation from major
industries and which helped to transfer assessment competencies into
process groups of leading industry.

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The workshop is interactive with learning by doing exercises. It gives a
full introduction into SPICE, how SPICE maps onto CMMI, with practical
sessions for scoring, rating, assessment planning, improvement planning,
and assessment interviews.
Each participant receives a course certificate stating that the
participant is trained as an assessor for SPICE 2.0.

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More information you find in the attached materials:

2001_spice20_deu_v2.doc   ... Announcement of Course in German
2001_spice20_eng_v2.doc   ... Announcement of Course in English
spice_course_agenda.doc   ... Course Agenda

Registration details are in the announcements.

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Once you register for the course you get access to a protected web site to
retrieve further materials.

If you do not want to receive any training announcements any more, send an
email to [log in to unmask] with the note "remove".

With best regards,

  Dr Richard Messnarz


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