ESKADENIA Software prepares for Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Aligning with ESKADENIA Software's strategy of being a global provider of world class software products and services, ESKADENIA has applied to CMMI® level 3 certificate in order to increase productivity, leverage performance, decrease development time as well as cost. ESKADENIA's commitment to achieve a higher level of customer satisfaction is the main driver behind being CMMI® certified.
Through CMMI®, a higher level of satisfaction will be obtained through meeting customers' requirements, continuously training employees, utilising the state of the art technology, spreading the quality culture across the organisation, formalising processes and standards and conducting auditing activities to evaluate processes and continuously improve them.
CMMI® for Development is a certificate issued from the Software Engineering Institute, USA. CMMI® is currently considered to be the most widely accepted and adopted process improvement approach worldwide, that provides organisations with the latest best practices for product and service development and maintenance.
Benefits:
1.0 What are we trying to achieve?
- Ensure that customer requirements are being met within the product through developing a traceable mechanism to trace requirement across all the project phases.
- Establish processes for project management, configuration management, training, product and process quality assurance, validation and verification, measurement and decision making.
- Establish an auditing committee to make sure that defined processes are being followed to measure success and introduce new improvement.
- Monitor development starting from its initiation phase until the product is deployed at the customer's site, to control risk, detect deviation, monitor progress and take corrective action when necessary.
- Document all the activities conducted within the software development life cycle.
- Provide guidance to implement processes, standards and procedures in the best manner.
- Provide ESKADENIA employees with continuous training to master their skills and develop new ones consistent with market demand.
- Be CMMI Certified by the end of 2010
1.1 CMMI Areas
CMMI methodology is categorised into four areas; support, engineering, project management and process management. To obtain level 3 each area must be well implemented within the organisation meeting certain criteria provided as below:
- Support
- Configuration Management
- Process & Product QA
- Measurement & Analysis
- Decision Analysis & Resolution
- Engineering
- Validation
- Verification
- Product Integration
- Technical Solution
- Requirements Development
- Requirements Management
- Process Management
- Organisational Training
- Organisational Process Definition (+IPPD)
- Organisational Process Focus
- Project Management
- Supplier Agreement Management
- Project Monitoring and Control
- Project Planning
- Risk Management
- Integrated Project Management
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