Service CMMI | Adaptive Processes

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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