Services
Initial Guidance & Strategy
Initial Guidance & Strategy
Initial Guidance & Strategy
Looking at implementing CMMI and need to know the true scope and impact of adoption?
We provide low cost consulting focused on leveraging our knowledge and experience to align with your strategy and help build the roadmap to successful implementation and appraisal.
Rapid Gap Analysis
Initial Guidance & Strategy
Initial Guidance & Strategy
Gap analysis is inherent to implementing CMMI. We rapidly provide you with an initial survey of your current practices and the delta to achieve your desired CMMI Level. Additionally, we provide advice and information to guide decision making for your organization.
Implementation & Appraisal
Initial Guidance & Strategy
Implementation & Appraisal
We have worked with a number of assessors for ISO and CMMI. We have one preferential company we work with for CMMI appraisals.
Should you not have a current assessor or auditor, we will help by facilitating your search, leveraging our experience to find the right fit for you.
Our Approach for Full Implementation
Planning and Scoping
Implementation - Monitoring and Control
Implementation - Working Together
We'll help you determine the scope and impact of an appraisal effort quickly and succinctly, providing you the intelligence of knowing everything and everyone that is involved
You'll receive a recommended schedule based on your organization, your people, departments that is used as the basis of implementation activities.
Implementation - Working Together
Implementation - Monitoring and Control
Implementation - Working Together
We work hand-in-hand with your people to ensure:
- We will provide the elemental process documents to be tailored to your business process for policies, plans, SOPs, metrics and frameworks from our large Process Library - all aligned with ISO and CMMI requirements.
- While working with your people, we first bring in documents and tailor them as much as possible before we ask your folks to work on the specifics of their particular process.
- Then we work closely, often implementing edits ourselves to avoid overburdening your folks.
- The new process is mapped to and compliments your current business and technical process
- Ensuring your process is fully integrated with other processes and reflect our primary mission; The least bureaucracy possible
- Facilitate the implementation of tools, process assets, frameworks, metrics, risk management to support and streamline your process
Implementation - Monitoring and Control
Implementation - Monitoring and Control
Implementation - Monitoring and Control
Managing the project requires regular meetings to:
- Identify and manage issues and blockers
- Manage task assignments and expected progress
- Escalate concerns (issues & blockers) when unreasonable within project confines
- Provide timely, periodic reporting to management
- Manage upcoming milestones such as readiness reviews
Our Support Services
Post Appraisal Support - a Long term Success Approach
Implementation - Monitoring and Control
- We provide a rich set of assets from our Process Library with multiple versions of nearly every document or tool needed for implementation.
- We also have defined the sets of criterion, data elements and processes necessary for areas like Risk Management, corrective actions, peer reviews and every repository you will need.
- We provide basic repositories in MS Office form or we'll help implement processes and data in the tool of your choice.
- We are experts with MS Office and SharePoint apps, as well as a host of popular tools used today.
Appraisal - The End Result
Post Appraisal Support - a Long term Success Approach
Post Appraisal Support - a Long term Success Approach
We've worked with many appraisers over the years and we do have a favorite we've worked with for years in multiple assessments. Software Quality Center out of Glendale AZ.
Whether you use our appraiser partner or have one already in mind or need our help finding and vetting an appraiser, we can help you select the right one.
Post Appraisal Support - a Long term Success Approach
Post Appraisal Support - a Long term Success Approach
Post Appraisal Support - a Long term Success Approach
We often say that it sometimes seems like companies, post-appraisal, often have a recidivism rate exceeding that of any US prison system!
It's all to human to slip into old habits of working or forget some of the requirements in sustaining CMMI.
This often causes a mad scramble when facing the next appraisal and folks rush to collect evidence and fill in data to catch-up.
We have an approach to help avoid this and make your follow on appraisals a cake-walk.
It begins during implementation, using folks like us that ensure your implementation is fully integrated in your Biz Process with the least bureaucratic process possible, our process design Rule # 1!