Discover the ease at which CMMI can be customized to meet the unique needs of service organizations. Gain invaluable insight into how implementation can make a positive contribution to your bottom-line! If you use an Internet search engine and type in the terms “CMMI & benefit”, you will find numerous examples about how to introduce CMMI successfully. These examples range from improvements in cycle time, response time, defect/problem reduction, cost savings, and productivity increases up to... Read Full Story
In my previous post on UAT , I suggested that UAT responsibility should lie with the business user, but can you be sure that they are being thorough enough with their testing? To help understand UAT, I have put together the following pointers on definition and guidance: User Acceptance Testing (UAT) marks the transition of functional ownership from Systest to the Business users. The responsibility for UAT resides with the business; however the management and coordination of the process will... Read Full Story
Change and Configuration Managament Tools - Part of the CM Wiki site with information about CM that includes tools listings based on the former CM Yellow Pages. Also links to information about CM, Build Management, Change Management, and concepts, templates, and processes. (Also see CM Crossroads , an online community and resource center for configuration management, with library of resource links, interactive discussion forums, monthly newsletter, Career Search and Jobs Board.)
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Combined Scrum and CMMI development helps you balance cost and quality needs. Learn new best practices for optimal project management . With most projects, initial specifications are vague and subject to multiple changes. Project managers encounter delays in receiving customer revisions as well as inconsistent or conflicting requirements. This leads to delay, rework and unhappy customers. Most misunderstandings are generated early in the project but are only detected much later. The result... Read Full Story
The benefits of process improvement are no longer reserved exclusively for members of the software industry. Learn how SEI expanded the CMMI model to accommodate the needs of additional markets! Read the full ExecutiveBrief article here: http://www.executivebrief.com/article/cmmi-benefits-now-extended/ . Read Full Story
Process documentation increases in sophistication as CMMI maturity levels rise…learn how to get to the next level by moving beyond detailing what a CMMI process is to defining how the process is actually performed! Often the organization’s process writers do not understand how to properly document a procedure. Rather than simply telling someone HOW to perform the process, process writers record a set of requirements that individuals must meet in order to perform the procedure. A procedure... Read Full Story
Quality programs can play a vital role in helping you remain profitable in today’s challenging economic climate. James Persse, PhD, Altair Process Solutions Inc., tells how to find out which program will deliver the level of efficiency you need to stay ahead. In corporate IT shops around the world today, executives are looking at performance more than ever. After all, economies are rocky, business volumes are down, and budgets are tightening. As a result, technology shops are forced to... Read Full Story
Follow these simple and straightforward strategies to overcome the most common challenges implementing your next process improvement program. Today, there are a number of useful process improvement techniques available for organizations to use and implement. These include CMMI , ISO series, Baldridge, Lean, Six Sigma , Total Quality Management, Toyota Production System and many others. However, despite the clear benefits that a process improvement program can provide to companies, many... Read Full Story
To mature software engineering , we must learn from history, and to learn from history, we must define what we do when we develop software and how we do it. When we produce a process specification and define measures for the key process parameters, we are beginning to build the basis for reliably and consistently recording and learning from history. That is why the process revolution is so important. According to Watts S. Humphrey, from Software Engineering Institute, new software... Read Full Story
Take advantage of this behind-the-scenes look at the challenges presented by Lean Six Sigma implementation. Capitalize on these lessons learned to avoid potential pitfalls! While Six Sigma training can help businesses in the technological sector tremendously, it is vital that companies choose the best Six Sigma consultants to work with and introduce the Six Sigma concepts in the proper manner. After all, if companies do not implement Six Sigma in an efficient manner, businesses can run into... Read Full Story
