CMMI Consultancy
Services
We don’t just offer certified training in CMMI, we offer a full range of consultancy and support services to help your CMMI or process improvement programs succeed. A list of our key CMMI related services is provided below, but in addition to these, we offer bespoke services and training/service packages tailored to meet your organization's specific challenges.
Certified High Maturity Lead Appraisers
Excellence in Measurement Technology have some of the most experienced Certified Lead Appraisers in the world and have the capability and expertise to plan and undertake appraisals for any CMMI model scope, including high-maturity appraisals and appraisals for the Medical Device Discovery Appraisal Program (MDDAP).
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Our appraisers can guide you through the appraisal process from initial scoping and planning right through to post appraisal action-planning.
We can advise you on the most appropriate appraisal strategy to employ for your organization and we have experience in running multi-domain, and multi-site appraisals. Our appraisers will work with you to understand your specific needs and then propose the most effective approach to help you meet those needs.
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Certified Appraisal Team Members
The credibility and objectivity of an appraisal’s findings hinges around the credibility and objectivity of the appraisal team. Whilst there is considerable value in having people from within the organization form part of the team undertaking the appraisal of that organization, there are also many benefits from employing external team members from outside to serve alongside the internal team members.
External appraisal team members bring with them many benefits:
• Objectivity: External team members are not affiliated directly to your organization and will provide an objective and dispassionate look at your processes through ‘fresh eyes’.
• Experience: External team members may have gone through many appraisals and are familiar not just with the appraisal process but also with understanding how to find and apply objective evidence across many different business contexts and market sectors.
• Coaching: Pairing internal team members with experienced external team members is a great way of coaching and mentoring them to help build up your own organizational expertise and skills in process appraisals.
• Credibility: Experience has shown that the results of teams which combine internal and external team members tends to be viewed as more intrinsically credible than those formed by purely internal or external team members.
We can supplement your appraisal team with highly experienced team members who have experience of serving on many appraisals, both virtually and on-site. We can draw on a pool of team members to match their skills and experience with your particular business context. All our team members are certified to at least CMMI Professional level and all have training and experience of working in both low and high maturity organizations.
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Post Appraisal Action Planning
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For many organizations, the delivery of the appraisal doesn’t mark the end of their CMMI journey but the beginning. The purpose of an appraisal is to uncover strengths and weaknesses in an organization’s operational processes when compared to the best practice managed within CMMI, so when an appraisal concludes and the organization is presented with a set of findings identifying areas where their processes can be improved, the next task is to process this information and devise a plan to address those findings which are of highest priority.
Our consultants have many years of experience, working with a wide and diverse set of clients in helping organizations turn their appraisal findings into a coherent and viable plan of action.
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Specifically, we can assist in the following ways:
• Providing a ‘deeper’ understanding of the actual findings to help an organization bridge the world between the CMMI Reference model and the actual processes being improved
• Help an organization prioritize findings by looking at the associated risk/reward profiles
• Helping an organization to understand the relationships between different findings and the identified process issues.
• Providing Project Management expertise to help an organization develop their action plan.
Whatever your needs are, contact us to discuss how we can help you turn your list of improvement opportunities into a plan to deliver actual business value and maximise your investment in a CMMI appraisal.
Process Improvement Coaching & Mentoring
One of the best ways to transfer knowledge and expertise to an organization is to embed an experienced and knowledgeable coach or mentor into the organization to work alongside the internal team.
We have considerable experience of working as embedded consultants and coaches within client organisations to help them develop the skills and experience needed to manage their own process and process improvement activities effectively.
We can offer coaching in process improvement approaches as well as offering more generalised management and agile development coaching and consulting. We have certified specialists that can help develop or augment your existing organizational skills in many areas including:
• CMMI
• ISO and other quality standards
• SAFe
• Scrum/Agile
We can provide help on-site or remotely as your requirements demand.
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Contact Us to Discuss Your CMMI Consultancy Needs
We want to provide our clients with a holistic approach to CMMI based process improvement which goes beyond just training. The sections above describe some of our key services but we recognise that all organizations are different. They each face their own set of challenges and have their own motivations that drive their business. For this reason, we are keen to discuss your objectives in order to properly understand how we can help you get the most benefit from a CMMI based process improvement approach. Please contact us to set up a session to discuss your specific needs.