5th July, 2014
All organizational representatives must have faced this situation that when their management asks them to get a proposal for CMMI Assessment (or CMMI Certification, as most managements like to call it) on a very urgent basis. When the organizational representatives get in touch with the CMMI Consultants, they are faced with a volley of questions that the CMMI Consultants start asking the customer. On one side, you as an organizational representative, have to give feedback to the Management regarding the cost and time-frames with respect to CMMI Appraisal / CMMI Certification, on the other side, the CMMI Consultants are not in a position to provide you with this information unless you provide some basic information to them. In this case, it better to be prepared with the responses to the questions that the CMMI Consultants may ask you. For your benefit, I have recorded some typical questions that CMMI Consultants ask the organizational representatives when a proposal is requested from the CMMI Consultants for CMMI Assessment (CMMI Certification):
(Duration of the appraisal to be decided based on the size and scope of the engagement.)
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Rajendra is a qualified and certified Lead Appraiser and Instructor for the following :
Rajendra is Lead Assessor for ISO 9001 (QMS), ISO 14001 (EMS), OHSAS 18001 (OHSMS) since 1994
International Automotive Task Force (IATF) approved Lead Assessor for Automotive Standard TS 16949:2009
Lead Assessor for ISO 27001 (ISMS) and ISO 20000-1 (ITSM)
Rajendra has 25 years experience in the industry.