DQS Certification has initiated its on-line CMMI Gap Assessment, Process Assessment and on-line CMMI Consulting service. Rajendra Khare, Managing Director, DQS Certification India Private Limited said that it has been observed that the cost of Assessments and Consulting is getting higher. Moreover, the cost of overheads like travel, boarding and accommodation makes it further restrictive for organizations to avail CMMI Assessment and Consulting Activity. Hence online service would contribute towards reducing the cost. Rajendra Khare said that we do hear in our industry experience that the CMMI Initiatives because of cost implications are postponed or rejected.
Ultimately, as we all know, that it is not about CMMI Initiative. It is about good process and good service delivery and product delivery systems in the organization. CMMI Initiatives help us to achieve this. Hence rejection of CMMI Initiatives because of escalating costs is not a very welcome idea. Rajendra Khare concluded that the online CMMI Consulting and Assessment service is a balanced compromise.
The on-line CMMI Consulting service will provide the practitioners of the organization get the right inputs at the right time. The online service would facilitate this in comparison to the model where service is provided through site visits. The online consulting service is available at DQS Certification India Website: www.dqsindia.com
DQS Certification with its knowledge expertise in this field would be able to support the CMMI and Process Improvement Initiatives in the organizations through on-line support.
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI), CMU, USA, is organizing the SEPG North America 2009 conference from March 23-26, 2009, in San Jose, California. More information on this premier conference in performance improvement through process capability is available at the SEI conference website at:
http://www.sei.cmu.edu /sepgna.
Currently, SEI has called for Abstracts and Reviewers from the Software Engineering Community. The deadline for the abstracts and reviewer volunteers is 15th August, 2008.
The extract from SEI web-page:
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/news-at-sei/whats-new/ sepgna09cfp.html
Extract from SEI Website on SEPG North America Conference 2009, is given below:
“This year’s Call for Abstracts features a special topic on The Next Generation of Process. The SEPG North America Program Committee is looking for presentations that will provide thought-provoking perspectives on the future of performance improvement and process capability. View the list of topics of interest for this year’s technical program or, for complete instructions, see the Call for Abstracts. The conference committee is also seeking volunteers to review abstracts. The committee members use these reviews in our consideration of each abstract for the technical program. We invite individuals with expertise in the field of performance improvement and process capability, particularly as related to the topics list, to submit their resume or CV for consideration. For more information, see the Call for Reviewers.”
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The Software Engineering Institute (SEI), CMU, USA has released the CMMI for Acquisition Primer, Version 1.2. This model framework CMMI best practices for those organizations who acquire products and services. This is based on the best practices of the CMMI for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ), Version 1.2 model (441 pages) and can be used by projects that acquire products or services in government and non-government organizations.
The best practices provide framework for sub-contractor management including monitoring and controlling while the sub-contractors develop products or deliver services. The practices in this primer provide a basis for procurement or acquisition process that can assure reliable product and service delivery from sub-contractors.
The CMMI-ACQ Primer is a stand-alone guide that prepares users for implementing the CMMI-ACQ model for process improvement. The primer focuses on efficient and effective acquisition processes and practices that are implemented by first-level acquisition projects.
To download a copy of the primer, see the CMMI for Acquisition Primer, Version 1.2 entry in the Publications area of the SEI website.
The matter on this page has been extracted from SEI web-site page:
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/models/primer-announce.html
