CMMI IMPLEMENTATION STEPS

 

Understanding the Model

Maturity models must be understood in relation to the goals and organizational reality of your particular business, not the other way around. QIA consultants help your organization interpret the various aspects of its chosen maturity model and home in to define precisely how that model must be implemented to suit your business environment and achieve your organizational objectives.

Preparing for a Benchmark Appraisal

To assure an effective appraisal, members at all levels of your organization must contribute to preparation. QIA consultants facilitate readiness by providing appropriate model-orientation at all levels of your group, performing gap analyses in anticipation of the appraisal, structuring and training your evidence-gathering team and reviewing evidence and orienting activities.

Establishing the Process Improvement Infrastructure

QIA’s consultants help you survey the terrain and build a smooth, navigable process improvement infrastructure. We support your process improvement planning, orienting your organization’s Process Group, helping you to develop a Goal-driven metrics Program and supporting the creation of an organizational training program for members of your team.

Preparing for and developing high-maturity processes

Our consultants have unparalleled experience with global, high-maturity organizations. We help clear the path to Levels 4 and 5 capabilities by helping all members of your group to understand and carry out their roles in developing and maintaining high-maturity processes.

Establishing Process Documentation

Effective process documentation is essential to the success of your process improvement program. QIA’s experts enable a powerful documentation effort, performing gap analyses against the required processes from the model, reviewing current process documentation, establish methods and systems for analyzing and developing effective and efficient processes and supporting the development of a measurement program.

Independent Functional Process Area Reviews

Process area reviews enable you to overcome barriers in preparation for or in response to a benchmark appraisal. QIA consultants can perform a range of reviews, including PPQA, CM and EPG process reviews.

QIA’s workshops support one or more aspects of our consulting services and are delivered in conjunction with consulting days. Explore our workshops and discover how QIA’s unique approach to consulting can multiply the returns on your investment in process improvement consulting.

Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI) is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes. It can be used to guide process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization. CMMISM helps integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes etc.

Appraisal Strategy

CMMI Assessments like assessments based on SCAMPI Assessment Methods provide you with a report card on your Process Improvement Efforts. These CMMISM Assessments also help you in prioritizing the areas of improvement and facilitate the development of strategy for consolidating the process improvements on a sustainable basis. The benefits that might be observed end the end of a CMMISM Assessment cycle can be as follows:

We can provide SEI Authorized Lead Appraisers, SEI Authorized High Maturity Lead Appraisers to carry out CMMISM SCAMPI assessments in your organization.

We plan the CMMISM SCAMPI Appraisal depending upon the organizational need as identified during Organizational Process Focus. The CMMISM SCAMPI Appraisal planning process carried out by us is in full compliance to SEI Methodology and covers the following aspects: