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CAPABILITY MATURITY MODEL INTEGRATION (CMMI)
Talliance Pvt. Ltd.
MPM7006 Project Management Innovations
Organizations are keen to deliver quicker, affordable and enhanced products and services therefore an Death Care Solutions Development Project in Colombo.
approach is formed to control and manage this difficult development and maintenance process.

1 INTRODUCTION When both achievement 4 MATURITY MODELS & GOVERNANCE

Talliance Pvt. Ltd is a software development company in Sri Lanka profile & target profile are For the Death Care Solution project the below table 1 illustrates the process areas of CMMI in Maturity level 2 being carried out to measure
which presently involved in building a Death Care application called compared it supports an the governance modules of the project that is applied by mapping CMMI to Disciplined Agile. (Project Management Insitute, 2019).
“byondcloud” by following Agile methodology. CMMI-Dev is to organization to plan & CMMI Process Area Disciplined Agile Implementation Concerns with CMMI
apply in Talliance for their new development project in Colombo. track its growth for each Requirements DA assists numerous strategies to prioritize requirements such as backlogs, etc. Substantial, may require bi-
Organizations problems involves enterprise-wide solutions that is selected process area. Management (RM) directional traceability.
needed of an integrated approach. Thus, CMMI delivers an With staged & continuous Project Planning (PP) Throughout construction evolutionary planning is sustained via iteration planning & as In advance detailed
opportunity to avoid/exclude these barriers and obstacles. representations these part of iteration finalization the release plan is updated. planning is implied.
process areas are carried Project Monitoring & Through stakeholder involvement, transparency, demos, a light weight delivery is built. Assumes project and
CMMI is an application of the principles, a process and behavioral out hence to measure the Control (PMC) Through address risks process goals, risk management is developed. detailed planning is inferred.
model that assists firms to restructure process improvement maturity & capability Measurement and Goal Question Metric (GQM) approach is explicitly supported. Maintaining to be lightweight
levels of the project. (Yan Analysis (MA) Regular demos are carried out to stakeholders by teams. & practical as possible.
(Gibson & Kost, 2006).
& Ester, 2004). Process and Product Automated dashboards are supported and several quality-oriented practices are Description to be at
CMMI for Development is a reference model providing activities for
Figure 2: Combined target & achievement profile. Quality Assurance proposed by Accelerate Value Delivery process goal e.g. continuous integration (CI), administrative level, vastly
both products & services development (Chrissis, et al., 2011).
With regards to byondcloud project for Talliance Pvt. Ltd., the (PPQA). etc. formal.
process areas of CMMI is applied under maturity level 2. Thus, Configuration A variety of options for CM is provided by the Accelerate Value Delivery process goal. Description to be vastly
2 IMPACT OF MATURITY MODEL focusing to set goals & priorities, easily assess current processes and
Management (CM) heavy
According to (Brookes & Butler, 2014), the following benefits are Supplier Agreement Portfolio management process blade assists vendor management and cost oriented None.
offer guidance.
achieved when organizations tend to improve their level of Management (SAM) strategies.
Table 1: Link between maturity models & Governance.
maturity; 3 CURRENT GAPS, TRENDS, PRACTICES &
Customer
• High customer satisfactions RESEARCHES IN CMMI Trends (Zubrow, 2021): 6 BENEFITS REALISATION
• Strong relationships with • Over 106 countries use CMMI models in their businesses.
Satisfaction project outcomes. Gaps as stated by (Khare, 2013): CMMI-Dev integration is a set of best practices that provides capability &
• Introduction to CMMI training has been joined over more than 130,000
• Achieves goal congruence. • Lack of different techniques or practices in order to assess people.
enables development of products & services with high quality (Keshta, 2019)
ROI • Increases in returns of project project’s efforts or costs  Lookup to historic data. • Around 12% of appraisals that’s been reported are high maturity (level 4 Attain organization agility to delivery efficiently,
investment • Time consuming due to heavy documentation as the Talliance or 5). effectively & consistently.
Schedule • Boosts on schedule & budget project is on a strict timeline  Introduce automated tools to • Vast increase in appraisals reported from China.
sustainability. reduce the time taken. • On Fortune 500 list represents organizations using CMMI. Enhance project lifecycle management to meet
Reduction customer expectations throughout the lifecycle.
• Improves project efficiency. • CMMI-DEV may not be ideal for all organizations due to high cost
 Select CMMI Model that’s applicable to the Business Domain. CMMI Researches according to (Watts, 2020):
• Enhanced level of quality. Develop Time-to-Market to deliver with less or without
High Quality • Security – with this integration entire ecosystem, personnel, information
• Reduces risk of project failure • Increase in cost & time due to training & implementation of CMMI & resources are protected.
re-work.
 Involvement of specialized CMMI consultants & models • Safety – with this integration safety activities are supported & managed.
Increased • Lower project cost. Cost reduction via enhanced planning, budgeting &
integration with CMMI may ease the process. • Data Management – with this organization’s enterprise data can be scheduling.
productivity • Improves employee morale. enhanced, measured & managed.
Figure 1: Impacts of maturity models in project management. Practices (White, 2021): • Medical Device Discovery – with gradual enhancement, capability Improved quality of product development & defeats
measurements can be made against best practices. are consistenly reduced.
Organizational processes
The performance in an organization is characterized by the maturity needs to cover all of generic
level which applies to its process development attainment across & specific goals & practices 5 LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN PM PRACTICES 7 REFERENCES
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Impacts of CMMI towards the Project
The Figure 2 demonstrates a combined target & achievement
profile of the project. The blue portion on each bar shows what’s
been achieved while unshaded portion shows the remaining portion
to accomplish to meet the target profile.
practices by goal for
Maturity 2 – SG 1 REQM is as
follows:
• Understand the requirements.
• Commit to requirements.
• Manage changes in requirements.
• Sustain traceability of requirements.
affordable.
Recent introduction of CMMI tools such as (Martins, 2018):
• The CMMI Toolkit: a set of correlated documents with easily
obtainable guidelines & process in a hierarchical manner.
• ManageHub: helps to achieve streamlined appraisal & ROI by
Figure 3: CMMI Practices. utilizing a library with capabilities such as low cost, easy
deployment.
The version CMMI 1.3 which was released in 2010, its implementation
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• Identify conflicts between project work & requirements. model designed in an agile context.