Improvement Planning, CMMI and Appraisals
- How to Pass a CMMI Appraisal
- How Good Are Your Project Management and Engineering Practices? Score yourself out of 27!
- Really Bad CMMI Interpretations to Avoid
- Adopting Frameworks and Standards — 6 Best Practices
- Complying with Standards Such as ISO9001, CMMI or AS9100
- Improving Capability and Performance With CMMI V2.0 — What Has Changed?
- Improving Hardware Engineering Practices Using CMMI
- Why Do People Use CMMI and What Do They Get From It?
- Engaging Management
- What is the Success Potential of Your Projects?
- Handout slide: CMMI-Scrum-PMBOK-comparison.pdf
- Using Medical Checklists to Simplify CMMI Process Development – Keeping it Very Simple
- Kick-starting a Service Delivery Team – Pragmatically Using CMMI for Services
- Lessons learned When Appraising a Maturity Level 2 Services Organization
- Expediting CMMI Maturity Level 3 – 10 Essential Tips and Their Demons (Dec 2013, PDF)
- CMMI Services Model – Implementing Service Delivery, Service Continuity and Incidence Resolution and Prevention (July 2010, PDF)
- Getting New Practices Used and Keeping Them Visible (February 2010, PDF)
- Getting out of the swamp (October 2008, PDF)
- Are we on track for CMMI Level N? (Mini-News, PDF)
- Appraisals and CMMI Gotchas (March 2008, PDF)
- Implementing an Improvement Program (a checklist) (March 2008, PDF)
- Implementing Measurement and Analysis (July 2007, PDF)
- Decision Analysis and Resolution Process (Oct 2005, PDF)
- CMMI: SAM and ISM Applicability (Oct 2005, PDF)
- CMMI-based appraisals: how large should they be? – (March 2005, PDF file)
- Using Six Sigma for improvement and comparison to CMM/CMMI (Feb 2004, PDF file)
- Practical Process Improvement Planning (Feb 2003, PDF)
- Shoestring Process Improvement – don’t stop because times are tough (Oct 2002, PDF)
- A goal-problem approach for scoping an improvement program – (Sept 1999, PDF) (Also see updated newsletter article below “Goal-Problem Improvement.”)
- Goal-Problem Improvement (February 2011, PDF)
Learn more at: Process improvement / CMMI resource page
The Process Group helps you improve your organization's capability to routinely meet deadlines and delivery quality expectations. We are certified CMMI appraisers / trainers and Certified Scrum Masters. 
