CMMI Consultant Blog

CMMI Frequently Asked Questions and their responses from CMMI Consultant(s)

  • Home
  • CMMI FAQ
  • CMMI Services
  • About Rajendra Khare
  • « Go to Parent Site – DQSIndia.com

Search CMMI Consultant Blog




Why QMS is required for CMMI and importance of QMS in CMMI?

CMMI FAQ 0


14th October, 2013

In CMMI Maturity Level 3, there is requirement of a standardized and organizational set of processes. These processes need to be implemented in all projects running in the organization so that there is consistency among projects implementations. Establishment of QMS i.e. Organizational Process Assets is covered in the Organizational Process Definition (OPD) Process Area which is available in CMMI Maturity Level 3.

In CMMI words:

The purpose of Organizational Process Definition (OPD) is to establish and maintain a usable set of organizational process assets, work environment standards, and rules and guidelines for teams.

QMS Contents

QMS consists of following documentation:

  • All applicable processes and associated documentation – templates, checklists and guidelines.
  • Lessons learnt from earlier projects
  • Risk Database from earlier projects
  • Estimation Sheets from earlier projects
  • Guidelines for Teams
  • Work Environment Standards

Benefits of QMS in the Organization

Having a centralised and accessible Quality Management System (QMS) in the organization have many benefits to the organization, some of these are:

  • It enables consistent process execution across the organization
  • It acts as basis cumulative, long-term benefits to the organization in terms of process improvement and maturity of the organization with maturity of people and processes.
  • It supports organizational learning
  • It allows the sharing of best practices and lessons learned among project teams
  • It helps project teams by providing database of earlier project’s Risks and Estimation
  • It helps in providing guidelines for Teams
  • It is used to store Work Environment Standards

Let experts design your CMMI Quality Management System (QMS)

We at DQS India (CMMI Partner) have CMMI Appraisers and CMMI Consultants who have expertise in designing the QMS. We have developed QMS for many organizations across the world. We can also develop and deploy integrated QMS for covering different standards and models like ISO 9001 and CMMI for Development.

We also have a CMMI-Toolkit to help you quickly deploy QMS in the organization. CMMI-Toolkit contains processes and associated documentation – templates, checklists and guidelines.

Contact us for more information.

Share this:

  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Related


Published by CMMI Consultant


cmmi, cmmi qms, cmmi toolkit, opd, qms



Previous Post

How to measure the effectiveness of CMMI Implementation in an organization?

Next Post

What is required for getting started with CMMI?

Leave a ReplyCancel reply


Sidebar


Author: Rajendra Khare


Rajendra's LinkedIn Profile
Rajendra is a qualified and certified Lead Appraiser and Instructor for the following :

  • SCAMPI High Maturity Lead Appraiser (Certified)
  • CMMI Institute-Certified SCAMPI v1.3 Lead Appraiser for Acquisition (Certified)
  • CMMI Institute-Certified SCAMPI v1.3 Lead Appraiser for Development (Certified)
  • CMMI Institute-Certified SCAMPI v1.3 Lead Appraiser for Services (Certified)
  • CMMI Institute-Certified Introduction to CMMI-DEV v1.3 Instructor (Certified)
  • CMMI Institute-Certified Services Supplement for CMMI-DEV Instructor (Certified)
  • CMMI Institute-Certified CMMI-DEV Level 2 for Practitioners Instructor (Certified)
  • CMMI Institute-Certified CMMI-DEV Level 3 for Practitioners Instructor (Certified)
  • CMMI Institute-Certified SCAMPI B & C Team Leader for Acquisition (Certified)
  • CMMI Institute-Certified SCAMPI B & C Team Leader for Development (Certified)
  • CMMI Institute-Certified SCAMPI B & C Team Leader for Services (Certified)

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.


Tags

cmmi cmmi-acq cmmi-dev cmmi-svc cmmi appraisal CMMI Assessment cmmi benefits CMMI Certification cmmi consultant cmmi consultants cmmi consulting cmmi faq CMMI for Acquisition cmmi for development cmmi for services cmmi high maturity cmmi implementation cmmi institute cmmi maintenance cmmi maturity level cmmi maturity level 2 cmmi maturity level 3 cmmi model cmmi process cmmi process improvement cmmi services configuration management dqs india high maturity Information Security iso 9001 metrics opd opm opp organizational training pal PPQA process improvement qms risk management sam sepg supplier agreement management training

© 2025 Copyright © 2017 CMMI Consultant Blog.
Back to top
%d