7 Reasons Your Software Development Company Should Work on Getting a CMMI Rating

The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) isthe company and its resources. You are also able
a tool that is used to measure the maturity of ato manage the growth of your company more
software development company's processes, toseamlessly, as new staff are easily trained and
see how well a company can deliver on a project.integrated into the smoothly running machine that
A software development process is made upis your company.
skills, tools and the procedure who develop aHowever, a CMMI rating is up for renewal in three
product or service. A good process has the skilledyears. This ensures that a high level of quality
people required to do the job, the softwareprocesses is maintained even as the company
development tools, and good procedures that aregrows and staff move on to other opportunities.
easily repeable to bring out products or servics or5. Get into the game
services of the same high quality.Increasingly, large corporations and government
Companies that have high quality processes haveinstitutions worldwide are making a high CMMI
a high rating of 5, while those who perform underrating a requirement to qualify to tender for the
par have a rating of 1.software development/upgrade business.
The CMMI model was developed at the SoftwareIt's not even about winning the tender. It's more
Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon in the US.about being allowed to play the game in the first
SEI's Programme manager Mike Phillips says theplace.
use of CMMI is not limited to the software6. Demonstrate your company is most likely to
development sector. A similar system is beingsucceed
developed for the manufacturing industry, heBarry Dwolatzky, director of the Joburg School of
says.Software Engineering at Wits University in South
So why should you consider using CMMI toAfrica cites a recent Standish Group study which
measure your company's performance?says 65% of large-scale software development
1. Learn how efficient your processes areprojects fail.
Introducing CMMI into your company's operationsSo, government institutions and large corporations
will help you find out how efficient your processesuse CMMI to determine how successful the
and which areas you need to beef up as thingscontract bidders have been in the past, helping
are prone to go wrong when your company isthem minimize the risk of failure by hiring the
engaged in development projects.candidate most likely to deliver the project on
2. Get in line with international trendsdeadline, on budget.
CMMI is increasingly being used to improve7. Attract global business
processes in the software development industry.Nidhi Srivastava, a director of India's Tata
3. Improve the quality of your productsConsulting Service's North American operations
Dimension Data chairman for the EMEA regionsays delivering to best practice standards, as
Andile Ngcaba says quality of the product/measured using CMMI, ITIL, Six Sigma,
service is strongly dependent on the quality of thecontributed strongly to India's growth as a
processes followed. The better the process, thefavored global IT outsourcing destination.
better the product/ service, he says. One of theThe Indian IT seeing an average annual growth of
accepted ways to measure the quality of28%, with over 255 Fortune 500 companies
processes is CMMI.served by the Indian IT industry, he says.
4. Improve the way your teams workIndia has over 70 companies with a top CMMI
When processes are of a high-quality, you arerating of 5, with more than 45% of CMMI
able to take on more jobs and guarantee amaturity level 5 assessed companies are from
certain level of service or quality without stressingIndia, he says.