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Advancing Quality Credentials: Staying Aligned with Changing Business Demands
By Collette Dziemian, Vice President of Quality Programs, & Pamela Schoppert, Senior Process Advisor
Aug. 2011
Understanding the structure and content of process capability models and their applicability to differing projects environments is essential before an organization decides to "appraise" or a customer mandates a specific process credential. The use of an integrated process structure, blending CMMI for Development and CMMI for Service best practices, has been shown to be the ideal fit for leading-edge technical solution and service companies. Customer and partner organizations with similar operational environments and project types can benefit from working with industry orgainzations that understand, and have implemented, a multi-model approach.
Navigating the CMMI Maturity Level 3 Journey: Five Cornerstones of Success
By Collette Dziemian, Director of Quality Programs
ASQ's Software Quality Professional, V. 11, N. 2, March 2008
Citizant achieved the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Maturity Level 3 rating in September 2008. This rating has become a requirement for many government software development programs, yet Citizant estimates that fewer than a dozen comparable small businesses in the federal marketplace have this qualification. Building upon a strong quality and program management culture, Citizant accomplished in 12 months what is typically an 18-month effort. Process is now universal at Citizant and the benefits are already visible to employees, customers, and senior management. This article outlines the five cornerstones that were pivotal to navigating the CMMI ML3 journey.
Quality by Design:
Using Metadata Registries to Manage Information Quality
by Beverly Hacker, Principal Enterprise Architect
Sept. 2008
Quality by design is a fundamental principle of quality management and is by no means confined to information quality. All other things being equal, building quality management into processes so that products will fulfill pre-defined quality specifications has proven to be more cost effective than bolting on quality correction processes after data has turned out to be too defective to be used to support downstream processes.
Formula for SOA Success:
Building Blocks for a Data-Centric SOA Transition
by Adel Harris and Ramesh Ramakrishan
Aug. 2008
Delivering on the promise of true enterprise-wide SOA – an environment in which discoverable, accessible, interopera-ble, and trusted services are business appli-cations that are aligned with business goals – is a huge undertaking that takes years. But with a proven, evolutionary SOA tran-sition plan that focuses first on data, organizations can achieve sustainable results with “quick wins,” while proceeding down the path of an architected approach that will deliver fully on SOA’s promise.
Getting Value out of Enterprise Architecture:
Bridging the Gap between Business Mission and IT Solutions
July 2008
To arrive at this destination, business and IT executives throughout the federal government are seeking best practices for establishing an EA framework that delivers results. To identify successes and roadblocks and gather intelligence on key issues impacting agency EA programs, Citizant conducted a series of focus groups – Government-Industry Partnerships for EA Excellence – to delve into these issues at the GTRA ArchitectureGOV Symposium.
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