Our services are focused and tailored to make implementation of the CMMI-DEV practices affordable and effective for small to medium organizations.

We enrich our courses with our experiences in working with small - medium businesses to convey the success factors in their environment.

Advantages of Implementing CMMI-DEV v1.3 practices in Small to Medium Businesses

Despite popular myths, planning and implementing the process improvement activities is simpler for small to medium organizations. When process improvement projects are planned appropriately for small organizations, implementation of the practices in CMMI-DEV model are more efficient and require less time and resources since:

3. Communication of information and reception of new ideas is more efficient and flexible within a small organization.

Our delivery of the Introduction to the CMMI-DEV v1.3 course material is flexible. We often arrange class hours and locations to fit the schedule needs of our clients.

The CMMI-DEV v1.3 Management Overview is designed to provide the executive managers with essential information of how the CMMI-DEV improves management of technical processes. We use our lessons learned from working with small organizations to develop and update the overview. The overview provides the managers with answers to their frequent concerns of resources, schedules and realistic improvement gains for their organizations.

We do not expect formal training facilities that larger organizations have, but we work with any suitable room. We provide you the course materials and bring our laptop to hook up to a projector. Large class sizes are not important to us as we prefer to teach the CEOs, CTOs and key staff members of the team. In the past, we have taught as few as 2 students.

As part of our SCAMPI appraisal services, we provide team training for SCAMPI Class C, B and A. We also have an SCAMPI Overview training for the CEOs, CTOs, CFOs and other higher level managers prior to conducting the appraisals.

The SEI recognizes are three types of Standard CMMI Appraisal Method (SCAMPI^sm) appraisals, Classes C, B and A. Each appraisal type has a different focus and uses different types and levels of evidence, depth of verification and flexibility in customizing to suit the organization's needs. The length of time typically required for the on-site appraisal activities depends upon the number of practices and the targeted Capability or Maturity levels.

Implementing a step by step process, the three types of appraisals, SCAMPI C, B and A determine direction and progress in the organization's process improvement activities.

Our SCAMPI appraisal services support the client's planning for each Class of SCAMPI appraisals. The Appraisal Plan contain critical information such as the sponsor's business goals and expected improvements in the organization's key practices including:

The SCAMPI appraisal plan contains other important appraisal information, including such as the sponsor's business goals, organization scope, process context, constraints, schedule, risks, and resources.

The Appraisal Plan importantly serve as a signed agreement between the sponsor and Transdyne Corporation.

The intent of a SCAMPI Class C appraisal is to provide the organization with the flexibility of evaluating the current approach to process improvement using both the equity of existing processes and plans.

A key activity in preparation for a SCAMPI Class C, the staff inventories the current process templates and improvement plans to describe the business context. Prior to the on-site period, we perform readiness reviews to determine the availability of evidence prior to performing the inventory.

SCAMPI Class C is important to the risk management strategy by providing an up-front look at the implementation plan in time to make necessary adjustments. Typical adjustments include balancing available resources, resolving scheduling conflicts and minimizing effects on critical events, such as product releases or proposal submissions. SCAMPI Class C appraisals require an appraisal team of a minimum of a SEI authorized lead appraiser.

The intent of a Class B appraisal is to provide the organization with a risk assessment of success in achieving goals when the current practice implementation is implemented throughout the organization. Since small - medium businesses do not have many projects, the SCAMPI B is a dress rehearsal for obtaining a Maturity Level benchmark.

The risk assessment uses a 3 point scale (red, yellow, green) and communicates the risk of CMMI goal satisfaction using the

current practice implementations. The appraisal team (minimum of 2) reviews evidence from documentation and affirmations by the project teams. Organizations typically perform SCAMPI Class B appraisals before performing a SCAMPI Class A.

The length of time typically associated with a Class B depends upon the number of practices assessed as well as the size of the organization. Class B appraisals may be performed with a flexible schedule to accommodate previous business commitments.

Class A appraisals provide a benchmark that can be used for either source selection, internal process improvement or contract performance monitoring. The results of a Class A may be posted on the SEI's List of Published SCAMPI Appraisal Results website if the

sponsor desires to publish the results.

The Class A appraisal method is documented in the Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI^sm), Version 1.3, Method Description Document (MDD) which is available at http://WWW.sei.cmu.edu.

Before the appraisal team assembles on-site, the SCAMPI lead appraiser trains the team and conducts a series of readiness reviews with the sponsor. The purpose of these reviews is to mitigate the schedule risk of the on-site period if there is insufficient evidence.

2. At least four members on the appraisal team, including the SEI certified lead appraiser.

3. Each member of the appraisal team needs to have completed the SEI course Introduction to the CMMI-DEV v1.3, SCAMPI A appraisal team training, as well as other experience levels and training as documented in the MDD.

We can be found in the SEI's Directory of authorized lead appraisers and instructors for the Introduction to the CMMI at http://partner-directory.sei.cmu.edu/.

Getting started on the process improvement journey can be confusing as there are many choices in process improvement activities and models.

Small - medium businesses typically do not have the resources to implement all improvements or models. One of key tasks in planning the process improvement journey is understanding the investment costs and value of each model, tool and technique to chose a model that fits the budget.

Keys to Success in Implementing the CMMI-DEV v1.3 in Small to Medium Organizations ...

There are eight critical keys to the success in implement CMMI-DEV. While each key is important, the sponsorship and planning are the keystones to success.

CMMI Related Planning Services

We do not view small to medium organizations simply as miniatures of larger organizations that can implement CMMI practices by simply scaling down existing process assets from larger organizations.

Small to medium organizations account for well over 90% of businesses in the global economy and are the low cost engines generating the rapidly emerging technologies. Implementing suitable CMMI practices in any organization should focus on the business case of the specific company.

The Steps in Planning Process Improvements

Transdyne Support in Planning Process Improvements

We support the small organizations development of their business case by conducting an analysis of the process performance gains to the planned costs.

As part of this analysis, using our past experiences with successful small to medium companies and organizations, we provide consulting services to these communities to first focus and understand critical tasks, such as:

1. Identification of their business goals,

2. Developing realistic and achievable values to improvement of key processes,

3. Launching specific process improvement projects with a schedule to achieve these improvement

4. Scheduling periodic higher level management review of these projects.

Avoid Mimicking Larger Organizations

We recommend process improvement planning activities in small - medium businesses should:

1. Develop and implement processes that reflect the way their organization conducts service and product development

2. Use practitioners to design effective templates to implement CMMI practices

3. Develop measurements that are relevant to their business goals and practices

4. Take advantage of short development or technical service cycles as an improvement opportunity to decrease the time for institutionalization of processes.

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	Transdyne Corporation provides CMMI-DEV v1.3 related:
	1. Courses Management Overviews
	2. SCAMPI A, B, C appraisals
	3. Consulting Services
	Workshops