What is CMMI?

CMMI is the one of the world’s most popular standard for software. The aim of CMMI standard is to achieve better business results by improving quality and predictability of processes.

It defines 5 levels of maturity which an organization achieves over period of time.

How it benefits the organization

  • CMMI is universally recognised and hence helps in getting new clients

  • Improved Quality and Productivity thus Better Customer Satisfaction

  • Better visibility in the market place

  • Assessment increases the Customer's confidence in Supplier's Quality and Delivery Commitments

  • Registration can improve service performance and reduce uncertainty

  • Employee involvement and thus commitment

  • Improved Quality awareness throughout the organisation.

How to implement CMMI

Here is a typical implementation plan for CMMI

Proposed Schedule

Responsibility

From Date

To Date

Plan for CMMI Implementation

Client

Week 1

Week 4

Secure Sponsorship and Funding

Client

Week 1

Week 1

Core Team Training

Adaptive

Week 2

Week 2

Prepare Your Organization for Change

Adaptive

Week 2

Week 4

Establish the business reasons and the business goals

Client

Week 3

Week 3

Form an Engineering Process Group

Client

Week 4

Week 4

Gap Analysis

Adaptive

Week 5

Week 8

Map CMMI practices of CMMI to organizational QMS

Adaptive

Week 5

Week 6

Conduct documentation adequacy review

Adaptive

Week 5

Week 6

Full fill documentation gaps

Adaptive

Week 7

Week 8

Release new version of QMS

Client

Week 8

Week 8

Progress review

Client

Week 8

Week 8

Implementation Cycle 1

Client

Week 9

Week 18

Conduct project documentation review

Adaptive

Week 9

Week 10

Conduct practice implementation review

Adaptive

Week 10

Week 12

Conduct data collection mechanism review

Adaptive

Week 12

Week 14

Establish data collection plan

Adaptive

Week 15

Week 16

Train project members on CMMI

Adaptive

Week 9

Week 12

Identify FAR groups

Client

Week 13

Week 14

Implement QMS as per CMMI requirements

Client

Week 9

Week 17

Review of progress

Client

Week 18

Week 18

Internal Assessment

Adaptive

Week 19

Week 27

Identify Assessment Team Members

Client

Week 19

Week 22

Develop Assessment Plan

Adaptive

Week 19

Week 22

Prepare assessment questionnaires

Adaptive

Week 19

Week 22

Conduct Assessment

Adaptive

Week 19

Week 22

Present Findings

Adaptive

Week 19

Week 22

Close internal assessment findings

Client

Week 23

Week 27

Pre-Appraisal

Adaptive

Week 28

Week 18

SCAMPI Training(Overview) by LA (2-one day session)

Lead Appraiser

Week 28

Week 28

Intro to CMMI training and Pre-Appraisal by Lead Appraiser

Lead Appraiser

Week 29

Week 29

Planning the appraisal Scope

Client

Week 30

Week 30

Preparing for the appraisal Plan

Lead Appraiser

Week 31

Week 31

Gather Data

Lead Appraiser

Week 32

Week 32

Reporting Results

Lead Appraiser

Week 33

Week 33

Review of progress

Client

Week 33

Week 33

Implementation Cycle 2

Adaptive

Week 34

Week 36

Close gaps identified during Pre-appraisal

Client

Week 34

Week 36

Improve and release new version of QMS

Adaptive

Week 34

Week 36

Liaison with Lead Appraiser

Adaptive

Week 34

Week 36

Final Appraisal

Client

Week 37

Week 38

Final Appraisal

Lead Appraiser

Week 37

Week 38

Close appraisal findings

Client

Week 39

Week 40

How Adaptive adds value

CMMI is a very detailed oriented standard (runs more than 500 pages) and has significant emphasis on internalization of practices and also significant emphasis on data and metrics. It expects well defined processes and a system to collect and analyze organizational metrics.

Achieving CMMI is only beginning of the journey, sustaining the same over time is a bigger challenge. CMMI has very high expectations on managing the QMS properly through document control system and maintaining records and showing quantitative process improvements. CMMI itself prescribes maintaining 30mandatory records and typically as per organizational requirements, it may go up to 50 types of records being maintained.

Our Adaptive Process Accelerator comes pre-built with 50+ standard proven processes which can be easily tailored by the organization. It also has 30+ data management modules such as Project Planning, Schedule Tracking, Defects Tracking, Risk and Issues Tracking, Quantitative Project Management, Sub-process metrics, Assessment Plan and Track, Employee Skill Tracking, Training Tracking etc.

All this means the organization can save huge amount of time and effort in implementing CMMI. Again, being an integrated product for ISO 27001 and ISO 9001, organization’s investment remains intact when the organization decides to implement other related standards.

Modules in APA for CMMI

  • Project Overview

  • Schedule – MS Project upload and Auto Schedule generation as per project type

  • Integrated with Review Checklist and Test Cases Management

  • Sizing – Component Wise and Phase-wise

  • Built on industry standard Microsoft .Net and SQL Server 2005

  • Defect – Tracking with defect history

  • Time Sheet integrated with Schedule module

  • Risk Tracker, Issue Tracker including Change Requests Tracking

  • CM Plan (Configuration Items, Folder Access, Baselines, CCB)

  • Management Dashboards

  • Decision Analysis and Resolution module using Pugh matrix

  • Quantitative Process Management including Sub-Process Metrics

  • Project Team including Roles and Responsibility and Skill Gap

  • Communication and Escalation Matrix

  • Hardware and Software Resources

  • Quality Assurance Plan

  • Project Budgeting and Tracking

  • Weekly Status Reports, Monthly Status Reports and Metrics Reports

  • 8 comprehensive software life-cycles – Agile, Waterfall, Maintenance, Support, Reengineering, Porting, Package Implementation and Testing

  • 50+ comprehensive processes and procedures for Delivery, HR, IT and other functions

  • 500+ standardized process artefacts for CMMI, ISO 27001 and ISO 9001

  • eLearning on CMMI

Our CMMI credentials

  • Infinite Computers (APA Implementation and QMS Definition for CMMI v1.2 Level 5 implementation)

  • Turning Point (APA Implementation and QMS Definition for CMMI v1.2 Level 3)

  • ZeOmega (CMMI Level 3 implementation)

  • AXA Global Solutions, part of AXA Insurance, a Global Fortune 50 company (CMMI implementation)

  • Manhattan Associates (CMMI Training)

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