CMMI Blog Special Series for High Maturity: 1st Part: This blog series on the cmmiconsultantblog.com is a systematic and structured coverage of CMMI Process Areas for CMMI Maturity Level 5: using CMMI –DEV, Version 1.3, as the Reference CMMI Model: As CMMI Consultant, during CMMI Consulting assignment if you are asked about the steps, inputs and outputs of Organizational Performance Management (OPM) Process Area, what would be your response:

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26th March, 2016

For the above-mentioned question, CMMI consultants may take inputs from the following.

Purpose of CMMI Process Area Organizational Performance Management (OPM) is to proactively manage the organization’s performance in accordance with the organizational business goals.

Organizational Performance Management (OPM) process area helps in:

• Establishing, analyzing and revising Business, Quality and process Performance Objectives
• Establishing process performance measures
• Risk Assessment for identifying risk related
• Improvement in potential areas
• Validating the improvements ideas
• Documenting lessons learned from validation
• Planning the Deployment of selected improvements
• Managing the Deployment
• Preparing training materials to show improvements
• Revising improvement measures, objectives, priorities, and deployment plans
• Evaluating the Improvement Effects

Following are some of the inputs for the CMMI – OPM Process Area:

• Need to improve Business, Quality and Process Performance Goals
• Customer Feedbacks
• List of improvements ideas

Following are some of the outputs for CMMI – OPM Process Area:

• Business, Quality and process Performance Objectives
• Process performance measures
• Improvement Implementation Plan
• Deployment Reports
• Validation Reports
• Revised Implementation Planning

The above is not an exhaustive coverage of the Organizational Performance Management (OPM) CMMI Process Area but is substantive enough for CMMI Consultants to create a good foundation of Organizational Performance Management in an organization.

Source: CMMI for Development Version 1.3