CMMI Frequently Asked Questions and their responses from CMMI Consultant(s)
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What should be the Scope of CMMI Consulting Assignments with respect to time-duration? Should a CMMI Consultant services continued after the completion of CMMI Appraisal? What kind of activities CMMI Consultants would perform in case if their services are continued after the CMMI Appraisal also?
Typically the CMMI Consultant is hired for the period before the CMMI Appraisal. This can be two years before the appraisal which is actually rare in Indian situations. It is true for American situations. In India, the CMMI Consultant is normally hired around a year before the appraisal. This may…
September 2, 2014
What are the criteria to select CMMI Consultants?
Suppose you want to hire CMMI Consultants. What do you do? You type the key-words like CMMI Consultants or CMMI Consultants in India or CMMI Consultants in USA, etc., on Google Search. You get a large number of results. The challenge that you face as an organizational representative is that…
July 1, 2014
What is the trend of CMMI in India? How it is in comparison to CMMI in China?
One indicator to observe the trend of CMMI Adoption in India is to find out the number of CMMI SCAMPI Appraisals that are carried out in the country. To be exact, 143 CMMI SCAMPI Appraisals were carried out in India in the Year 2012 and 188 appraisals were carried out…
June 30, 2014
Quiz on CMMI and CMMI Process Areas
What is CMMI? Capability Maturity Model Integration is a framework for process improvement and is developed by Software Engineering Institute. CMMI is divided into different Maturity Levels (1-5) and further these Levels are divided into Process Areas. How many CMMI Models are available for implementation? Currently there are three CMMI…
June 22, 2013
How to apply Defect Removal Efficiency (DRE) metric in projects?
Q:- I am a Defect Prevention team member in our CMMI Maturity Level 5 company. We are trying to plot the Defect Removal Efficiency (DRE) metric in our projects. I have a few questions: Our DRE is based on phase level defect injection and detection concepts. If we go closely…
July 7, 2009
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Author: Rajendra Khare
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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.