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General Cont. Ed. : CSDP Categories | Key to Notation Used
My Cont. Ed. by Time/Location: SAIC | Citicorp | CSC | EVB | Grad School | Under-Grad | High School
 

Recertification Categories for csdp
 Minimum of 30 Professional Development Units (PDU) must be earned over 3-year period
  • Category 1 -- Educational Activities 
    • A-Prof seminars, presentations, and conferences (0.3/hr)
    • B-Training external or formal in-house classes (0.3/ hr)
    • C-University graduate or continuing education courses (2 PDU/semester hr; 1.3 PDU/quarter credit hr)
    • (max 15 PDU)
  • Category 2 -- Publishing Papers
    • Refereed publication (10 PDU)
    • Non-refereed (5 PDU)
    • Published book (20 PDU)
    • (max 20 PDU)
  • Category 3 -- Presentations and Courses
    • Initial presentation, 0.3 PDU/hr
    • Plus up to 2x for prep
    • (max 15 PDU)
  • Category 4 -- Tech/Professional Service
    • officer or board member (5 PDU/term)
    • committee member (3 PDU/term)
    • Serving as an article reviewer for a peer-reviewed publication (0.5 PDUs per article, maximum of 5 PDUs in a 3 year period)
    • Standards Involvement
    • (max 15 PDU)
  • Category 5 -- Self Study (max 5 PDU)
    • A-Prof Membership (1 PDU/yr)
    • B-Reading self-study materials
      • Reading subscription peer reviewed periodicals, standards, and professional handbooks (1 PDU/yr)
      • Reading non-peer-reviewed periodicals (0.5 PDU/yr)
    • C-Viewing self-study materials other informal classes, videos, audio tapes, seminars, etc. (1 PDU/actual contact hour, max 2/activity)
    • D-Reading recently published books SE/SW Books < 2yrs old (2 PDU/book)
  • Category 6 -- Employment (max 9 PDU)
    • At least 1,500 hrs/year = 3 PDU
  • Category 7 -- Other professional activities worthy of consideration (max 15 PDU):
    • Writing questions for the CSDP examination = 1.0 PDU per 5 acceptable questions
    • CSDP Examination Development Workshop (wkshp) = 0.5 PDU per 0.5 day

Key:
  • Date: dd-MMM-yy
  • Cat: categories define in the table above
  • ID: course identifier or number for 1B or 1C, otherwise the short notation highlighted above
  • Sources:
    • CTP = SAIC's CMMI-Based Training Program
    • CISTP = SAIC's Core Integrated Software Training Program (older CMM-based)
    • FTP = SAIC's FastTrack® Process
    • FTT = SAIC's FastTrack® Technology Training
    • LESBU = SAIC's Logistics Engineering Solutions Business Unit Training Course
    • EEdge = SAIC's Engineering Edgetm training
    • SAIC-U = SAIC University
  • Other Sources:
  • Instructor of Course, Presenter of Seminar, or Author of book
  • PII (Evidence):
    • A = Attendance Voucher;
    • C = Certificate;
    • M = Materials/handouts/exam,
    • N = Notes,
    • R = Receipts

Educational Activities & Self-Study

2005-2008 at SAIC: red course names are missing from training record

Date Cat ID Name/Title of Course/Book/Seminar Source Instr./Author

Hrs

PII
30-Mar-07 1B   Sarbanes-Oxley: Certifications and Section 404 Controls, SAIC University, Compliance Training Modules SAIC-U CBT 1.5 C
02-Feb-07 1B VPC Basic Training for the Virtual Proposal Center (VPC) via DataXchange™, McLean Proposal Center and SAIC University SAIC-U Christina Babics 1 M
22-25
Jan-07		 1B SE0101 Systems Engineering 101, SAIC University SAIC-U multiple 32 M
  5B read Systems Engineering Handbook, Version 3 [SEHv3], INCOSE <began before Nov-06> INCOSE multiple   M
10-Nov -
05-Dec		 4? Std Review IEEE/AIAA P1633™/Draft 5 Recommended Practice for Software Reliability, 2006 IEEE SW Rel WG   M N
02-Dec-06 5C View Completed On-Line Training modules:
● Overview of the IEEE Standards Process (20 slides)
● Imperative Principles of the Standards Process (12 slides)
● Role of the IEEE-SA Standards Board (12 slides)
● Terminology in IEEE Standards (8 slides)
● Plus additional webbased help
IEEE Standards Association.		 IEEE-SA Self-Study Materials 3.0 M
30-Nov-06 5B read IEEE Standards Association Operations Manual, New York, 2006. IEEE-SA Professional Handbooks 2.5 M
30-Nov-06 5B read IEEE Standards Style Manual, New York, 2005. IEEE-SA Self-Taught 2.0 M
26-Oct-06 1B EArch SAIC's Engineering Edgetm Enterprise Architecture (EA) Introduction EEdge P. Nowack 1.5 M
04-Oct-06 1A prof Determining “Best Fit” for ITIL Implementation (David Consulting Group) DCSPIN Diane Bloodworth 1.5 M
02-Oct-06 1B SecRTB Security Refresher Training Brief SAIC CBT 1.0 N
07-Sep-06 1B EEdge3T SAIC's Engineering Edgetm Introductory Course, Train-The-Trainer EEdge A. Jordano,
P. Nowack		 4.5 M
11-Apr-06 1A prof Washington (DC) Metro Area Chapter Meeting: Mature and Secure: Creating a CMMI and ISO/IEC 21827 Compliant Process Improvement Program.  An Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); INCOSE Michele Moss 2 M
21-Mar-06 1A prof Washington (DC) Metro Area Chapter Meeting: Decomposing the Architect: What are Critical Success Factors? Embedded Systems Institute, Eindhoven, Holland; INCOSE Dr. Gerrit Muller 2 M
23-Feb-06 1A prof "CMMI for Services Status", presentation to SAIC’s Engineering, Training, and Logistics Group (Singley ETLG) Process Improvement Workshop. 2006-Feb SAIC Jerry Simpson 1 M
30-Jan-06 5B read Application Services Library—Models and methods, ASL Foundation / PinkRoccade (PowerPoint). Feb-2004 ASLF Machteld Meijer 1.25 M
29-Jul-05 5B read Implementing the CMMI Within An Information Technology (IT) Organization, presentation (PDF). 2005-Mar Honeywell D. Bottig 1.5 M
29-Jul-05 5B read Mark Servello and Jim Gibson. “Applying CMMI In Information Technology Organizations” Presentation at SEPG 2003, ChangeBridge, Inc. (PDF). Change Bridge Servello & Gibson 2.75 M
28-Jul-05 5D book Software Asset Management, UK Office of Government Commerce, On-Line Overview, Sep-2003. OGC SAM 2.5 M
28-Jul-05 5D book Application Management, UK Office of Government Commerce, On-Line Overview, Sep-2002. OGC AppM 3.0 M
23-Jul-05 5D book ICT Infrastructure Management, UK Office of Government Commerce, On-Line Overview, Oct-2002. OGC ICTIM 2.75 M
23-Jul-05 5D book Planning to Implement Service Management, UK Office of Government Commerce, On-Line Overview, Apr-2002. OGC PISM 3.75 M
23-Jul-05 5D book Service Delivery, UK Office of Government Commerce, On-Line Overview, Apr-2001. OGC SD 4.0 M
22-Jul-05 5D book Service Support, UK Office of Government Commerce, On-Line Overview, Jun-2000. OGC SS 3.25 M
22-Jul-05 5D book Interpretive Guidance for Service Organizations. IGSO Interpreting Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI®) for Service Organizations—a Systems Engineering and Integration Services (SE&I) Example. Mary Anne Herndon, Robert Moore, Julie Walker, Laura West (all SAIC), Mike Phillips (SEI). CMU/SEI-2003-TN-005. SEI Herndon, Moore, Walker, West, Phillips 10 M
21-Jul-05 5D book The IT Service Capability Maturity Model. Frank Niessink, Viktor Clerc, Ton Tijdink [from CIBIT Consultants | Educators, The Netherlands] and Hans van Vliet [Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands]. pp.220 see ref Niessink, Clerc, Tijdink, and van Vliet 3.75 M
08-Jul-05 5B read “Quality for IT development and IT service Operations: CMMI® and ITIL in a common quality approach”  [Die Bahn Systems GmbH] SEPG London Dr. Alfred Richter 2.75 M
11-Apr-05 5B read Streamlining CMMI & ISO 9000 Implementation, Soza & Company, Ltd. web Gerard Daché 1 M
17-Mar-05 1A prof "CMMI® or ISO? Why not Both?" Presentation to the Society for Software Quality (SSQ) SSQ Ruth T. Buys, Ph. D. 2 M
28-Feb-05 1B IPPD3T Integrated Product and Process Development
 		 CTP Daryl Siddon 2.5 M
03-Feb-05 1B TIDES TIDES Training started for roll-out; Feb 01 and 03 LESBU Sheila Ashburn 5 M
28-Jan-05 1B ETH01W Ethics Briefing (via ISSAIC) SAIC CBT 2 M
18-Jan-05 1B OPF/DT Organizational Process Focus/Definition Train-The-Trainer [FTP11] CTP Pam Schoppert 3 C, M
18-Jan-05 1B OIDT Beta offering of Organizational Innovation and Deployment Train-The-Trainer CTP Pam Schoppert 3 C, M

2003-2004 at SAIC:

Date Cat ID Name Source Inst./Author

Hrs

PII
06-Oct-04 1A prof "Process Improvement Basics" DC SPIN DCSPIN Jonathan Addelston 2 A, M
04-Oct-04 1B ISO ISO 9001-2000 Overview LESBU Jim Abels 2 C, M
08-Sep-04 1B CMMI-1 Generic SCAMPI Appraisal Training 08-09 SEI Dan Blazer 16 C, M
03-Sep-04 1B SecRTB Security Refresher Training Brief SAIC CBT 1 A
Jul-04 5D book CMMI® Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement, Mary Beth Chrissis, Mike Konrad, and Sandy Shrum, Addison-Wesley, 2003. SEI Chrissis, Konrad, and Shrum lots N
19-Jul-04 5B read Systems Engineering Life Cycle Processes [see ISO/IEC 15288] Std ISO ? N
13-Apr-04 1A prof "Interpretive Guidance for CMMI®: What We’ve Learned," DC SPIN DCSPIN Gian Wemyss, SEI 2 M, N
07-Apr-04 1A prof "Team Software Process-Security (TSP-Sec), DC SPIN DCSPIN Watts Humphrey and Noopur Davis, SEI 2 N
29-Mar-04 5B read Presentation: “Using CMMI - ISO 9001:2000 Synergy in a Process Improvement Strategy”; DCSPIN, July 2003, 85 pages. DCSPIN Boris Mutafeliga & Harvey Stromberg ? N
19-Mar-04 5B read Report: “ISO 9001:2000 -- CMMI 1.1 Mappings”; SEI Website, July 2003, 31pages. SEI Boris Mutafeliga & Harvey Stromberg ? N
19-Mar-04 5B read A Comparison of ISO 9001 and the Capability Maturity Model for Software, Technical Report CMU/SEI-94-TR-12; ESC-TR-94-12,  July 1994. SEI Mark C. Paulk - N
16-Mar-04 1B CARTT Causal Analysis and Resolution Train-The-Trainer [FTP12] CTP Joe Fiore 2 C, M
16-Mar-04

1B

 QMT Quantitative Project Management Train-The-Trainer [FTP14; Project Controls FTP13]] CTP Joe Fiore 2 C, M
01-Mar-04 1B TIME1W Time Charging SAIC CBT 2 C
19-Feb-04 1A prof "IEEE Computer Society’s Program for Professionalization of the Software Discipline," SSQ SSQ James Moore 1 A, M
04-Feb-04 1A prof "Effective Change Leaders: What are they like?" DC SPIN DCSPIN Rita Hadden 1 M, A
11-Jan-04 7 Std Review PMI's PMBOK Guide, 3rd Edition Exposure Draft for update of IEEE Std 1490 PMI Peer review and comment 12+ M, N
07-Jan-04 1A prof "University of Maryland  System at Hagerstown," Eggs & Issues, Hagerstown/Washington Co. Chamber of Commerce presentations HWC CC UoM-H 1 N
30-Dec-03 5B read Research on Interpretive Guidance for CMMI®, SEI Website SEI   2.5  
01-Oct-03 1A prof "??," Eggs & Issues, Hagerstown/Washington Co. Chamber of Commerce presentations HWC CC   1 R
01-Oct-03 1A prof "Return on Investment using Software Inspections", DC SPIN DCSPIN Don O'Neill 1 A, M
01-Oct-03 1B EO-CEO Certified Employee Owner [done in modules]
▪ Sep-25 - Introduction To Employee Ownership At SAIC-EO102
▪ Sep-23 - Buying & Selling Stock At Bull, Inc-EO120
▪ Sep-18 - Investing Basics Of The SAIC Retirement Plans-EO110
▪ Sep-18 - Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) Basics-EO121
▪ Sep-16 - Stock Option Workshop-EO122
▪ Sep-11 - Introduction To SAIC Operating Financials-EO103
▪ Sep-10 - Introduction To SAIC Stock Pricing-EO104
▪ Sep-09 - Introduction To Our Culture And Business-EO101		 SAIC multiple 8 C, M
10-Sep-03 1B FTP10/ SEST3  FTP Training-Estimation FTP Barbara Burlingame 1 C
03-Sep-03 1A prof "Elementary Number Theory - Software Measurement (a Practical Guide)" DC SPIN DCSPIN Jonathan D. Addelston 1 A, M
22-Aug-03 1B   SCAMPI Method Overview - V0.4 FTP  Pam Schoppert 1 N
21-Aug-03 1A prof "Washington County's Introduction to Cumberland Valley Technology Council" CVTC   1 N
19-Aug-03 7 Other Participated in corporate evaluation of Books24x7 (Referenceware) capability/tool for decision on contract SAIC Self 9 M
13-Aug-03 5B read Systems Engineering Handbook (SEH), Version 2.0, July 2000. INCOSE multiple 10+ N
06-Aug-03 1A prof "Effective Software Testing in an Imperfect Software Development World" DC SPIN DCSPIN Elfriede Dustin 1 A
25-Jul-03 1A prof "Resources", Cumberland Valley Technology Council CVTC tbd 1 N

23-Jul-03

 5D book Common Approach To Systems Engineering (CATSE) SAIC multiple 1 N
22-Jul-03 1B FTP17 FTP CMMI Bridge: Project Management & Metrics [FTP09 - PM] FTP Janice Rouiller 1 M
22-Jul-03 1B FTP19 FTP CMMI Bridge: Organizational Process FTP Pam Schoppert 2 M
08-Jul-03 1B CAGT Common Approach Guidance for CMMI, beta and Train-the-Trainer CTP tbd 2 M
08-Jul-03 1B FTP18 FTP CMMI Bridge: Engineering, Test, & Configuration Management [FTP03 - CM] FTP Bonnie Spelbring 1 M
12-Jun-03 1A prof "Security" Cumberland Valley Technology Council CVTC     N
09-Jun-03 1B IPRPT Integrated Peer Review Process T-T-T CTP Pam Schoppert 8 C
04-Jun-03 1A prof "Washington County Hospital", Eggs & Issues, Hagerstown/Washington Co. Chamber of Commerce HWC CC      
03-Jun-03 1B FTP16 FTP CMMI Bridge: Process Overview FTP Pam Schoppert   C
07-May-03 1A prof  "Process Improvement Adoption and Institutionalization: Workshop for CMM and CMMI" DC SPIN DCSPIN Jonathan Addelston   M
01-May-03 1A prof "Coolfont Conference Center", Hagerstown/ Washington Co. Chamber of Commerce HWC CC      
10-Apr-03 1B FTP05 FTP Training-Test (Verification & Validation) FTP Jeff Simpson   M
10-Apr-03 1B FTP08/ SEP2  FTP Training-SW Development & Maintenance (Technical Solution & Integration) FTP Jeff Simpson   C
09-Apr-03 1B TBO4 Teambuilding Overview (Version 4) CTP Pam Schoppert 2 C
08-Apr-03 1B OPF/D Organizational Process Focus/Definition CTP Pam Schoppert 4 M
20-Mar-03 1B FTP06/ SMP FTP Training-Metrics FTP Janice Rouiller   M
18-Mar-03 1B FTP04/ IPRP FTP Training-Peer Reviews FTP Pam Schoppert   C
06-Mar-03 1B FTP07/ SCREM2 FTP Training-Requirements Management FTP Jeff Simpson   C
01-Mar-03 1B CAO3 Common Approach to Software Development and Maintenance (CASDM) Orientation V3.0 CISTP CBT   C
14-Feb-03 1B ETH01W  Ethics Briefing - Web SAIC CBT   C
16-Jan-03 1A prof "HCC Programs", Hagerstown/Washington Co. Chamber of Commerce HWC CC tbd 1 N
16-Jan-03 1B FTP01 FTP Training-Process Overview and Tailoring FTP Bonnie Spelbring   C
16-Jan-03 1B FTP02/ SQA3 FTP Training-Software Quality Assurance FTP Barbara Burlingame   C
04-Dec-02 1A prof "Work Force Development", Eggs & Issues, Hagerstown/Washington Co. Chamber of Commerce presentations HWC CC tbd 1 N
19-Dec-02 1B CMMI Introduction to the CMMI-SE/SW/IPPD-Continuous Representation, McLean, VA