I recently worked with a client on their implementation of CMMI-ACQ. After much hard work and courage they were rated as a maturity level 2 organisation late last year. Along the way they accumulated many better practices, benefits and a better understanding of how their own organisation needs to work with partners and suppliers. So after this success I was curious to know which other organisations had gone down the CMMI-ACQ path and published their appraisal results. (more…)
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January 20, 2012
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…)
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 …
March 14, 2011
CMMI SCAMPI v1.3 Introduces More Rigorous Sampling
Posted by neilgrover under CMMI, CMMI-ACQ, CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, Process ImprovementLeave a Comment
As a lead appraiser, I was recently sent a draft of the upcoming version 1.3 of the SCAMPI appraisal method. Normally this would hardly generate much excitement outside the small community who earn their living from conducting appraisals, but this release includes at least one change that looks likely have a significant impact on organisations seeking a CMMI rating.
February 23, 2011
CMMI and Defence Acquisition – its time.
Posted by Graham Dick under CMMI, CMMI-ACQ, CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, Process Improvement, programme management, project managementLeave a Comment
Ouch – another uncompromising report from the Commons Public Accounts Committee – this time aimed at MOD procurement. I appreciate that of course this is an insanely complex high pressured environment that really does play for big stakes – however given that situation how can not being the best of the best be an option? Maybe now is the time to learn from the US DOD and start to apply CMMI as part of the answer to evolving to a robustly more capable DE&S?
The Public Accounts Committee report in question – “The 23rd Report – The Major Projects Report 2010″ can be downloaded here.
CMMI made Practical 2011, held on the 12th and 13th April 2011 has some 70% of speakers from real end user organisations discussing how they have used CMMI to demonstrably increase their capability.
Find out how the US DOD invests in structured capability improvement with Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute.
January 18, 2011
Procurement Processes (Cost reduction or blockade)
Posted by John Evans under CMMI, CMMI-ACQ, Process ImprovementLeave a Comment
Recent experiences with procurement departments has left me bewildered. I have watched in awe as parts of engineering request that a contract be drawn up and the next thing that arrives is a request for a proposal. The amount of time it takes to place a short term contract is inordinate. In the current economic climate, surely there must be a better way to buy things? Otherwise, the cost of setting the contract up is likely to be greater than the value of the contract.
December 20, 2010
The MoD is all over the press again…..
Posted by Andrew Griffiths under CMMI, CMMI-ACQ, Process ImprovementLeave a Comment
The sorry state of MoD procurement is not a new problem; in fact it is not uniquely a UK problem it also afflicted the USA badly during the Reagan administration. It is good to see yet another consultants report into the obvious problems facing the MoD, but I fear that it will go unanswered (just like the Fulton report in 1967). Why? (more…)
December 13, 2010
CMMI v1.3 – evolution not revolution
Posted by Graham Dick under CMMI, CMMI-ACQ, CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, Process Improvement1 Comment
There has been quite a lot of talk in the technical community about the new CMMI version 1.3 and its possible impact (or not) to existing and planned business improvement programmes. I have to confess to personally not getting too excited about the new release considering it to be primarily a technical release focussed on a bunch of synchronisations between the three constellations and clarifications to the high maturity practices.
October 15, 2010
An interesting CMMI process area
Posted by Andrew Brettle under CMMI, CMMI-ACQ, CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, Process Improvement1 Comment
I’m always interested in what people use to search google for the information they are looking for. One of the handy tools that this blog site provides is a list of the search terms used on a daily basis that have ‘thrown up’ this site on from the search engine. (more…)
