CMMI is a performance improvement model for organizations and projects that want to achieve increasingly better performance and solve business challenges. Proven effective globally in business and government for over 25 years, CMMI is an integrated framework of best practices that can rapidly improve and sustain any organization’s performance to elevate quality, profitability, productivity, cybersecurity resilience, and competitiveness.

Anything an organization must do well that drives meaningful business results. Capabilities are what an organization needs to implement its business model or fulfill its mission and achieve measurable business results. All organizations have capabilities, without them a business could not start or grow. Capabilities are typically organizational level skills, abilities, and knowledge embedded in people, processes, infrastructure, and technology.

Six Sigma is a methodology, philosophy, model, approach and a tool for improvement the bottom-line in organizations using innovative breakthrough methodologies to solve problems, achieve goals, meet business objectives and to exceed customer satisfactions.

CMMI helps businesses to quickly understand their current level of capability and performance both in the context of their own objectives and as compared with other businesses and organizations. If business needs and objectives are not being met, CMMI practices can guide systematic and effective improvement to elevate and optimize performance to better serve the needs of the business and ultimately the customer.

CMMI v3 is defined to highlight critical capabilities common within companies, with an attention to performance practices and a focus on process improvement through repeatability and practice. CMMI global best practices enable organizations to build and benchmark the most common business challenges including:
• Manage Work, Ensure Quality & Improve Performance
• Develop Products & Deliver / Manage Services
• Manage Suppliers
• Manage Workforce & Support Implementation
• Sustain Habit Persistence & Manage Business Resilience
• Manage Data, Security & Safety

The approach is:
» Get CMMI models.
» Study the models & perform a mini assessment / appraisal to find the gaps in existing processes with respect to CMMI^® model.
» Improve/develop processes to address the gaps.
» Provide necessary trainings on processes and related software / system engineering areas Institutionalize the process.
» After some time of implementation of processes, perform a appraisal to benchmark and to find continuous process improvements.

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Rich and experienced lead appraisers& consultants can assist your organizations to interpret CMMI^® models, help you to develop processes, assist to institutionalize and suggest improvements by performing appraisals. Concept QA labs are having enormous experience to assist for CMMI^® model implementation.

Processes which are commercially bought from outside do not work well as the process frameworks shall suit to the internal architecture of organization, the type of projects, domains, technologies and different roles in the organization. To speed up development of processes external consultants assistance can be taken, but the processes shall be internally developed, reviewed and improved.

Tools like ProVision are exclusively designed and develop to integrate best practices and comply with CMMI^® and Six Sigma.

Our studies indicate atleast 2% of total population is a good strength needed for process development and process audits (SQA). The cost could be easily recovered within 1 year of institutionalization through direct benefits like improvement in productivity and cycle times.

It is myth that CMMI^® or ISO add documentation. Documentation is anyhow needed in any project, but these models implementation deals with systematic work products, so that changes can be controlled, technical consistency can be maintained and traceability could be established. Documents like Project plans are essential as per these models and plans assist in significant way to meet project goals and help to established synergetic teams.

A well defined and better institutionalized process shall assist projects to meet stiff deadlines, face challenges like scope creep, team turnover, change of technology etc. It is essential to establish good processes for organizations to meet challenges and business goals. CMMI model assist greatly to set up or improve processes.

In a low mature organization, the visibility of process followed by projects is less to the Senior management. Senior management could able to visualize inputs and outputs from projects.With CMMI® model implementation, the process framework, create to good metrics based review mechanism system. With this Senior management could able to get minute details at regular intervals using good derived metrics. Management could spend less time, get better picture and could take right decisions at right time so that projects could be successful.

Benchmark Appraisal:
» Identify opportunities for organizations to improve how they implement processes and their overall business performance.

Sustainment Appraisal:
» Appraisal “check-up” that can be done following a Benchmark Appraisal to determine if the organization is maintaining their appraisal level.

Action Plan Reappraisal:
» A “second-chance” for organizations that narrowly failed to achieve their targeted appraisal level in a previous appraisal.

Evaluation Appraisal:
» An informal and flexible approach used to help organizations prepare for an appraisal and determine opportunities for improvement.