For 25+ years, high-performing organizations have achieved clear, sustainable business results with ISACA’s CMMI maturity models. Originally created for the U.S. Department of Defense to assess the quality and capability of their software contractors, ISACA’s CMMI models have expanded beyond software engineering to help organizations around the world, in any industry, understand their current level of capability and performance and offer a guide to optimize business results.
Integrated CMMI product suite provides best practices that enable organizations to improve performance of their key capabilities, providing a clear roadmap for building, improving, and benchmarking capability.
This is a model with customized set of parameters for companies in the IT sector. The guidelines apply to different business environments, with the focus on enabling organizations meet their defined performance improvement needs.
CMMI V2.0 supports companies to identify their existing level of capability in a timely manner. This helps an organization mark the areas of improvement and identify the need for efficient use of resources.
CMMI V2.0 helps organizations quickly understand their current level of capability and performance in the context of their own business objectives and compared to similar organizations.
CMMI V2.0 is a dynamic model with the ability to be updated quickly to include proven new methodologies and practices. By focusing more on meaningful outcomes and linking improvements with organizations’ key business goals, V2.0 provides value to organizations that extends well beyond appraisals and maturity ratings
- Features and Benefits
- Applicability
- Consulting Methodology
CMMI V2.0 offers clear guidelines so that the companies can make the required changes and during the process note how consistent and reliable their processes. They can make changes that will help cut down preparation time and lifecycle costs. The model also states details for employee engagement, training and work satisfaction.
Model
Includes DEV, SVC, ACQ, People and others – Core + context-specific + links to external material
Appraisal Method:
– Benchmark (think: “SCAMPI A”)
– Sustainment (think: “ISO Surveillance”)
– Evaluation (think: “SCAMPI B/C”)
Key Improvements for V 2.0:
- Demonstrate the value and ROI of adopting CMMI
- Performance capabilities are incorporated in every level to help organizations:
- Identify performance needs
- Establish performance goals
- Track, measure, and achieve performance goals
- Improve value of CMMI appraisals
- Lower time, effort, and cost
- Improve confidence and reliability of results
- Extend validity period with Sustainment appraisals.
- Keep CMMI current with latest methodologies
- Scalable architecture includes additional method guidance – Hosted online so more readily updated
- New content additions like “Safety and Security”
- Make CMMI more user friendly
- Provide more timely appraisals as Less intense appraisals conducted more frequently
- Performance-related practices at all levels
- Performance Report
- Used to establish performance objectives and baselines
- Used in appraisals to validate performance improvement
- Transition from:
- “Using the GPs to institutionalize the SPs” to
- “Promoting persistent and habitual use of your processes.”
- There will be pre-described “benchmark views”: – DEV ML2 – ML5
- SVC ML2 – ML5
- ACQ ML2 – ML5
- Maturity levels still exist, and they can be determined by evaluating the org against a given benchmark view just like Equivalent Staging in V1.3
Potential benefits that a company can gain from implementing CMMI DEV 2.0 include:
- Improve Business Performance
- Build Agile Resiliency and Scale
- Increase Value of Benchmarking
- Accelerate Adoption
- Reduce rework
- Improve product quality
- Improve productivity
- Average improvement in defect containment
- Increase in development velocity
This standard is applicable to enterprises related to the IT Sector. Companies involved in software development, software maintenance and software product development among others can be eligible to CMMI DEV 2.0.
IT companies, in this day and age, are increasing seeking better solutions in areas such as infrastructure services, application testing, development and maintenance, among others. With IT industry catering to almost all the other industry with customized products, implementation of this set framework of rules becomes important.
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