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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.
Federal EA Leaders Discuss EA Roadblocks and Successes
Oct. 2008
The ultimate destination of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the successful use of EA principles to deliver results that align business and IT functions, eliminate duplication, leverage IT investments, accelerate delivery of electronic government, and support information sharing. 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.
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.
Enterprise Data Management at the Department of Housing and Urban Development
Feb. 2005
Since assuming responsibility for data quality improvement at HUD, the OCIO has been successfully applying a systematic program of data quality assessment, process improvement, data correction and certification for mission-critical data in HUD’s major information systems.
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