CMMI Coaching for Enhanced Technical Capability

From its inception, Pro-Methods has recognized the need beginning with proposal submission to optimize long-term business performance, allowing companies to have the capability to manage the development, acquisition, and maintenance of products and services. CMMI is a process improvement method that provides a set of best practices that address productivity, performance, costs, and stakeholder satisfaction. CMMI provides a consistent, enduring framework that accommodates new initiatives and 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 improves predictability of the critical measures of cost, schedule, performance, and customer satisfaction. Unlike other “models”, CMMI has been designed so that it can be tailored to the business goals set by your organization.

Pro-Methods believes that successful implementation of CMMI acts as the guide for improvement of organizational processes and infrastructure, resulting in improved management and technical performance.

CMMI provides the framework for organizing and prioritizing the steps required to attain continuous process improvement in a staged rather than a revolutionary fashion. CMMI identifies to the implementer what has to be done without mandating and specifying how it should be done. The benefits of software process improvement afforded by implementing CMM models are well documented. In one particular study the following benefits were achieved:

• 35% annual productivity gain
• 22% gain in early defect detection
• 19% reduction in time to market
• 39% annual reduction in post release defects
• 5 times return on investment

Pro-Methods can provide support in the following areas for CMMI implementation in an organization:

• Defining goals and objectives
• Ascertaining, defining, articulating, and documenting organizational processes, procedures, guidelines, criteria, templates, and forms
• Implementing a Quality Assurance/Quality control organization
• Helping to prepare, understand, and implement CMMI within an organization
• Assisting in generation of evidence and the establishment of a documentation repository