CMMI Frequently Asked Questions and their responses from CMMI Consultant(s)
process improvement
Shall we go for CMMI on customer’s request?
In today’s world when outsourcing for products and services has increased manifold. The need for quality for these products and services has increased as well. And if your organization is not having a process improvement model like CMMI for its product and services, you are likely to be asked by…
September 23, 2013
Roles and responsibilities of SQA in an organization going for CMMI Assessment
SQA (Software Quality Assurance) Engineer in an Organization going for CMMI Assessment has various responsibilities. SQA Team Structure depends on the overall strength of the organization and number of people involved with process implementations (in Software Development or Services Organization). SQA is the mainly responsible for leading the Quality Initiative…
September 16, 2013
What is Organizational Process Definition (OPD) and how it helps in Process Improvement?
Organizational Process Definition (OPD) is CMMI Maturity Level 3 Process Area under the Process Management category. It helps in establishment and maintenance of the process assets, work environment guidelines/standards, and rules and guidelines for teams at organizational level. Organizational Process Definition (OPD) Implementation Steps Standard Processes: Processes and associated artefacts…
September 2, 2013
What is Organizational Process Focus (OPF) and how it helps in Process Improvement?
Organizational Process Focus (OPF) is CMMI Maturity Level 3 Process Area under the Process Management category. It helps in the planning of the process improvement, deploying organizational process improvements and sharing the project team experiences in the form of lessons learn and artifacts prepared. Organizational Process Focus (OPF) Implementation Steps…
August 30, 2013
How to implement Organizational Performance Management (OPM) in an organization?
Organizational Performance Management (OPM) is a Process Area at CMMI Maturity Level 5 under Process Management category. OPM helps in achieving the business goals by proactive management of organizational performance. OPM Implementation in Organization For implementing OPP in an organization steps are as follows: On the other hand OPM help…
August 23, 2013
How do we identify a CMMI Assessed Organization from quality of services/products provided?
CMMI is a quality framework for process improvement in organizations involved with Software Development, Software Maintenance or Services or Acquisitions. Using CMMI by the process implementers in the organization infuse quality in to the product or services delivered by the organization. These qualities are so obvious that you can identify…
June 28, 2013
Advantages and Disadvantages of CMMI-DEV for a Software Development IT Organization? And how to overcome these disadvantages?
As we all know that CMMI was developed by SEI (now CMMI Institute). The SEI created the first CMM designed for software organizations and published it in a book, The Capability Maturity Model: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process [SEI 1995]. Since then it has evolved in a comprehensive framework…
June 5, 2013
Dear CMMI Consultant, we want to know next course of action as we have completed CMMI SCAMPI A Assessment for CMMI Maturity Level 3?
Recently our organization completed the CMMI Maturity Level 3 SCAMPI A Assessment successfully and got listed on SEI (now CMMI Institute) Published Appraisal Results Website. Our team worked hard and was able to achieve the same in 12 months time. Now we want to know about next course of action.
Why CMMI is one of the best quality framework for a Software Development Organization?
Most of the start-up organizations working with Software Development need to have trusted framework/model for their organizations that can direct them for continuous process improvement as they grow in size and responsibilities. CMMI® (Capability Maturity Model® Integration) models (CMMI for Development, CMMI for Services and CMMI for Acquisition) are collections…
May 28, 2013
What is CMMI Process Improvement and how to do it?
As we all know CMMI Maturity Levels starts from Maturity Level 2 and goes up to Maturity Level 5. With each level some Process Areas (PAs) are added and with these PAs comes the additional responsibility of better integration between Team Members and Teams, Better Management Insight into the Project’s…
April 24, 2013
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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.