Like many businesses we have shrunk a bit over the last couple of years. As a result we’ve accumulated a bit of ‘tech’ – old laptops, broken laptops etc that we wanted rid of. We also had a few of the CMMI V1.2 books still hanging around, superseded by the new v1.3 material. So what did we do – answer we did what everyone does and slung them onto eBay.
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March 30, 2012
eBay, tech and irony
Posted by Graham Dick under CMMI, Process Improvement, Change Management, programme management, project management, Agile1 Comment
March 2, 2012
Process improvement in an economic downturn – who ever heard of that?
Posted by Graham Dick under Change Management, Process Improvement, programme management, project management, TrainingLeave a Comment
Process improvement in an economic downturn – don’t be so silly I hear you say!
Well a number of the larger SI’s don’t think its so silly.
January 23, 2012
CMMI and Small Organisations – The Wiki Challenge
Posted by Andrew Brettle under Change Management, CMMI, Process ImprovementLeave a Comment
What tools should a small organisation implementing CMMI equip themselves with? An easy question but a little more difficult to answer directly as the response will be dependent on the availability of skills, experience, infrastructure, budget and above all the processes that the tool will be supporting.
In an earlier blog (How I fell in love with a wiki) I outlined the benefits of using a wiki in a small organisation that acheived CMMI maturity level 2 last year.
Was the wiki instrumental in this? Yes. It was key to quickly and easily capturing and disseminating information about requirements and their status, process descriptions, plans, status reports, measurements, issues, actions and risks. It was a good no-nonsense process asset library.
Was it the only tool that could be used by a small organisation? No. Other specialist tools were used for configuration management, project scheduling, automated testing and defect reporting/tracking. These provided functionality that would have been too costly for a small organisation to build into or fully integrate with a wiki. Excel spreadsheets were quickly developed as a low cost effective solution for timesheets, quality assurance checklists, resource planning and measurement data capture and analysis. In larger organisations some or all of this functionality is acquired through off the shelf software packages.
Can the Wiki be improved? Yes. Some of the data on the wiki could make more use of spreadsheets to improve overall productivity and maintenace. For example a small organisation would find it cost effective to maintain requirements traceability and estimation workbooks on well designed spreadsheets rather than trying to maintain these on a wiki.
So the challenge for a small organisation with a wiki is to get the right balance between the benefits of flexibility, ease of use, speed of deployment, appropriate functionality and the overall cost of maintainance, licences and deployment. Above all ensure it meets your process needs.
October 31, 2011
Don’t miss the benefits of CMMI
Posted by Sebastian Cazacu under Change Management, CMMI, CMMI-ACQ, CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, Process Improvement, programme management, project management[2] Comments
We often emphasize the need to do process improvement on a continuous basis, as an ingrained component in the “business as usual” operations. However, what about the management of this activity, should it be performed as operations management? (more…)
May 25, 2011
Are you a people person or an analyst? Vote now
Posted by Frank Johnstone under Change ManagementLeave a Comment
Once upon a time, I was young and promising, which provided plenty of opportunity for attending leadership development courses. (more…)
May 24, 2011
Why IT needs to do better……
Posted by Andrew Griffiths under Change Management, CMMI, Process ImprovementLeave a Comment
Onefte.com sums it up again….. This cartoon illustrates why we (as an industry) really need to do better.
April 28, 2011
CMMI made Practical 2011 – The Photo’s
Posted by Graham Dick under Agile, Change Management, CMMI, CMMI-ACQ, CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, ConferenceLeave a Comment
We’ve already had a lot of very positive feedback regarding this years conference – comments that ranged from how pleased delegates were at the sheer practicality of the even, how it brought CMMI down to earth and to life with many real life case studies. Other delegates were delighted that speakers addressed the complex change management dimensions involved. For me – I think the awesome conference photos just speak for themselves – have a look at them here on flikr.
April 27, 2011
CMMI made Practical 2011 – look back ..
Posted by Graham Dick under Agile, Change Management, CMMI, CMMI-ACQ, CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, Conference, ISO 20000, ITIL, Process ImprovementLeave a Comment
Having just come back after a few days off following this year’s successful CMMI made Practical I thought I would reflect and see what messages seemed to shout out now that a couple of weeks have passed. So impressions …
February 2, 2011
Don’t underestimate the transformation
Posted by Andrew Griffiths under Change Management, CMMI, Process Improvement1 Comment
While listening to the radio the other day, Bill Gates was asked about how it made him feel that people were using technology as a method for rallying political support in the Middle East. I had hoped for an interesting answer but he disappointed. It got me thinking about how technology is transforming everything, even the business of regime change. (more…)
January 26, 2011
How I fell in love with a wiki
Posted by Andrew Brettle under Change Management, CMMI, CMMI-DEV, Process Improvement1 Comment
I’ve seen wiki’s used before in organisations but never really recognised their elegance and beauty as an asset library tool until I was recently assigned to help an organisation achieve CMMI maturity level 2 for its 16-strong development team. Hammers, nuts(!) and plenty of pain came to mind when I started to think about how a small team would realise CMMI. The company, Hornbill Technologies are the development organisation within a larger group (Hornbill), and for their part they focus on developing enabling technologies for use by the wider company, they turned out to be a revelation and a revolution in my own view of Wiki’s.
