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CMMI For Small Business
OR
“How Much Can I Get Done with Almost No Resources
and Little or No Money???”
By Nat Guadagnino, PMP
San Antonio, TX
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1.
Brief Overview of CMMI - Continuous Representation
and Why It’s Important to a Small Business.
2.
The Significance of Operational Dynamics in a Small
Company. Which Ones are Useful?
3.
Process areas Selected as High Priority based on
‘Balanced Minimalization’ and ‘Value Add’
4.
Convert a CMMI Process Area into a Project Plan,
Policies and Procedures.
5.
Simple templates for Small Business.
Agenda
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What is CMMI About??
1.
Continuous Process Improvement (CPI)
2.
Improving the way we do business
3.
Standardization, Simplification, Specialization, Structure
4.
Making people feel good about their jobs
5.
Making better decisions
6.
Predictability, Repeatability,Accountability & Responsibility
7.
CMMI is a model for improvement using best practices
8.
Adds Maturity to your Operating Mode.
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Why Use Models???
Models help us achieve
improvement in a predictable,
measurable and organized way.
Models Provide:
Best Practices
Standards and Guidelines
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CMMI Continuous Representation
•You can select from 1 to 25 Process Areas for your
journey.
•You Can Brag About Each PA (Process Area) as you are
Appraised and Certified.
• Appraisals are Measured Against Goals and Practices (sort
of) for a Single Process Area.
•Goals
= Policies
•Practices
=Procedures, Work Instructions, Checklists,
Guidelines & Standards
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Importance of Continuous Representation to
small business.
Req
Mgmnt
&
Req
Devel.
Project
Planning &
Project
Monitoring
and
Control
Config
Mgmnt
Process
And
Product
QA
Etc
Etc
L 2
L 3
L 4
L 5
Appraisal is on any distinct CMMI Process Area.
Works great for small companies with limited resources.
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