The CMMI^SM is NOT a set of "bolt-on processes" that last only as long as the wheel is squeaking. CMMI^SM provides a consistent, enduring framework that accommodates new initiatives. CMMI^SM facilitates enterprise-wide process improvement, unlike single-discipline models that can result in duplication of work, confusion and higher costs. Process improvement using the CMMI^SM improves predictability of the critical measures of cost, schedule, performance, and customer satisfaction.

How Do You Want to Work?

Option 1:

·         Random motion – lots of energy, not much progress

·         No teamwork – individual effort

·         Frequent conflict

·         You never know where you’ll end up

Or Option 2:

Working with CMMI:

·         Directed motion – every step brings you closer to the goal

·         Coordinated efforts

·         Cooperation

·         Predictable results

Impact: Cost Benefit Analysis of CMMI

QIA and CMMI

QIA’s vast knowledge and experience with the CMMI^SM and SCAMPI^SM assessments can help any organization prepare, understand, and implement CMMI^SM within their organization at a cost effective way.

Process Improvement Consulting

When establishing and maintaining a process improvement program, organizations typically need to team with external professionals to sharpen their skills and focus their actions. QIA deploys some of the most experienced consultants in the world, offering services tailored to meet your specific individual and organizational needs. Working closely with everyone in your group, from programmers to executives, QIA consultants find and cultivate the link between tactical and strategic action, helping you to build a smooth and well-conceived process improvement path.

QIA’s consulting services are highly customized to meet your need to home in on areas of challenge to your process improvement program. The list below outlines some of directions in which QIA can help your program take off.

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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. CMMI^SM 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 CMMI^SM 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 CMMI^SM Assessment cycle can be as follows:

• Reduction of rework
• Improvement in customer satisfaction
• Projects on time and within budget
• Employees see benefits
• Reduction in cost

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

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

• Base-lining of Appraisal Objectives with Appraisal Sponsor
• Mapping of Appraisal Objectives with Organizational Objectives
• Determination of Focus Projects
• Determination of Organizational Representation (Sampling) on Project basis and People-basis
• Appraisal Resources and Appraisal Team Strategy
• Planning of Appraisal Schedule
• Appraisal Output Determination
• Appraisal Constraints Determination
• Appraisal Risk Management

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