I am a consultant to an automobile components research center. Their products include a number of hardware, software and PCBs for the electronic control...
Ed, My comments below: "Actually, only part of your company has a legitimate ML3 rating as (it should have been) defined in the appraisal scope" I am new to...
Dear Ribhu, While I might agree with you in principle, in practice R&D organizations are much more dynamic and flexible than pure development organizations....
Hi Rick, Many of my clients simply want to crush the competition, and the CMMI offers a path to do so through increased efficiency, repeatability and ...
I Thank you all for your contribution. The challenge here is to maintain focus in a large organization with no sponsorship or support to process at this time....
The origin of Scrum lies in R&D. Because its iterative, piecemeal approach to requirements, try Scrum + CMMI for best results. At the very least, go lean....
Rick, I agree with David - there are many good reasons to adopt CMMI beyond contractual. However, there is a subset of Lead Appraisers that do not believe that...
Ribhu If you are really talking about Research & Development, and not the overused term incorrectly applied to product development, I will pass on a phrase I...
Ribhu, I appreciate Ed's noteworthy quote. I do recall a briefing rom the research segment of a company in Huntsville, AL, that found that they gained...
Rick, You do need to have evidence for the documents mentioned below but there is no rule which says the document has to be this detailed etc. as in large...
Thanks Jorge, Ed and Henry for your valuable views on the subjects! You are right, the organization is not in pure R&D. The main company gives 'small product...
RCA largely depends upon 'true'metrics data for its effectiveness. Your main challenge in implementing RCA will be availability of metrics. I would therefore...
Yet, how do you measure processes' outcome ? ... Analysis program, not for CMMI reasons, but for defect prevention reasons. I am getting resistance from...
other two cents about the 'how' to put it into action...another way to stimulate also low-maturity organizations starting with CAR could be - also when using...
If you don't mind, I am going to be a bit technical here. There is a CMMI way of introducing anything to an organization; that is to say, start introducing...
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Friends I just uploaded a paper on “Estimation in Real Time Software Projects” to my web site. It can be downloaded from the downloads page of my web site....
Good afternoon dears I am an IT project manager. And the company that makes the IT project for our Corporation is CMMI level 3. But I want to ask: 1. Is CMMI...
Dear mjsubaie, CMMI level 3 is a rating to which an organisation has been appraised to perform. CMMI-DEV is the set of guidelines/standard used for the...
CMMI levels are independent of the model - there are DEV, SVC, ACQ as well as the People CMM models, and each one can be assessed or appraised to determine the...
Just for clarification, there are currently 3 CMMI constellations: CMMI-ACQ, CMMI-DEV, and CMMI-SVC. There is nothing that is just CMMI. Many years ago there...
can someone recommend a training class to understand how to populate the CMMI ver 1.3 PIIDs in preparation for a SCAMPI A? i am the software/systems process...
I suggest that you ask your Lead Appraiser. Each Lead Appraiser has their own preferred set of PIIDs and he or she can instruct you on how to prepare them. ...
Hi rick , This is part of scampi class (and related preparation). However, if i were asked to do it, I would probably recommend 2-4 hours consulting to get get...
Rick, Typically your SCAMPI Lead Appraiser works with you on how to populate the PIID for the SCAMPI A appraisal. Different appraisers have different...
Rick This should have been addressed by your Lead Appraiser. I do this for my teams, and find it varies from company to company as their data management...
By the way, the SCAMPI V1.3 methodology does not mention "PIIDs" The appraisal planning activities include determining the data collection strategy, planning...
