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As difficult as it is to buy the right software, you’d think they’d call it hardware. You need to be an expert in how to buy software. You need to know how to write a software specification. For every business there are many problems or needs that can be addressed. Technology will only be able to solve certain problems. For every one of those there are many technologies that will work. For every technology there are many more products or solutions of that technology. And, for every product or solution there are that many more vendors. How do you know if the vendor you picked is even going to have a product, a technology or a solution that can solve your problem and that it's the right problem to solve with technology? First you need to figure out which business problems need to be solved. Then you need to narrow down which of those business problems can be solved with technology. After that you need to determine which technologies are the right ones to apply to solve those problems. Only then can you identify the technology product or solution to address those needs. Don't even think about talking to a developer or vendor until you've done these steps. CMMI can be applied to small companies and in agile development environments and methods.You can achieve a CMMI level rating even though you use XP (Extreme Programming) or another Agile Development approach or method.Looking for help implementing CMMI? Need someone who will understand that 'your're different?' Looking for discipline in a lightweight environment? Entinex understands and can help you achieve your process objectives.Software development isn't manufacturing. So why do people keep trying to use manufacturing methods on software? Manufacturing QA doesn't work in software which is why so much software QA is so painful. Entinex has the solution. Don't let obsolete thinking about software processes intimidate you out of pursuing a CMMI level rating. Old-style thinking about software processes have not kept up with the times, but Entinex has. Entinex understands that you're in business not for the process but to make money selling software products, solutions, and services. Let Entinex help you achieve your process goals without breaking your bank or rhythm.
Modern software needs QA processes that more closely fitted to each project, are dynamically adapting to the project and making development cheaper, better, and faster on every subsequent project; that truly add business value to the QA process. On time working product is a must. Processes must reflect the demands of the customer -- first and foremost. Processes must be adaptive and scalable to handle exceptions. NEED: Process that are matched to project objectives before the project gets under way and get into the detail of the standards and methods so that when the standards are followed they automatically generate the necessary 'proof' of process compliance. DON’T NEED: Processes that simply create automated markers and flags, INSTEAD: approaches that enmesh metrics and data generation into the development process so that the successful output of the process is only possible if the process was properly followed. In a well integrated project generating the data QA needs would merely be a report that runs every so often querying certain tables and build repositories. A QA program at this level of abstraction is infinitely scalable to any project, as long as there’s the will to cooperate for the purposes of benefiting the business.

22.5 WAYS CMMI HELPS YOUR BUSINESS

 CMMI can be applied to small companies and in agile development environments and methods. You can achieve a CMMI level rating even though you use XP (Extreme Programming) or another Agile Development approach or method. Looking for help implementing CMMI? Need someone who will understand that 'your're different?' Looking for discipline in a lightweight environment? Entinex understands and can help you achieve your process objectives. Processes are fueled by people. People hate heavy-handed (bad) processes. Too many process are bad. Entinex can help you fit your processes to the CMMI.
Business executives and technology developers have a mismatch in two key areas: communication and priorities. Business people and technology developers have a basic communication problem in that the business folks can't speak about their business in technology terms, and the technical folks don't know enough about a particular business to convey technical concepts in a way that makes sense to the business people. Similarly, it's not on a business executive's priority list to get to know all about technology just to be able to define their needs in technical terms. And, it's not a developer's priority to learn the ins and outs of a business so that they can glean the answers they need from a business person to be able to deliver a product or solution. Entinex solves these mismatches by providing the needed translation between business and technology.
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Entinex wants you to know why it's a good idea to adopt CMMI -- whether or not you *need* to do it for client reasons.

22.5 Benefits:

  • Eliminates unpaid scope creep and manages customer expectations.
  • Fosters communication and involvement of project participants including the project team and its customers.
  • Keeps project performance on management's radar with information they can use.
  • Minimizes the risks inherent with supplier dealings.
  • Strategically aligns business goals with business metrics.
  • Assures important corporate processes are followed.
  • Prevents unauthorized changes from entering into products and being delivered to customers.
  • Creates requirements specifications validated to meet customer needs and uses.
  • Evolves solutions to match customer specifications.
  • Avoids mistakes common to the necessary sequencing of product assembly.
  • Extracts product mistakes stemming from misinterpreted requirements.
  • Ensures products will work when put to use by the customer.
  • Determines whether company processes are necessary, sufficient, operational or needing updating.
  • Establishes company norms, project structures, and corporate archives.
  • Aligns strategic needs with tactical execution.
  • Provides projects with tailored processes.
  • Structures complex distributed project teams and streamlines their interactions.
  • Proactively mitigates risk.
  • Formalizes decision-making when/where needed to preserve rationale.
  • Focuses process activities around corporate performance needs.
  • Predicts project outcomes using sophisticated dashboards.
  • Resolves conflict and scalpels issues with advance analytical techniques.
  • Deploys value-added processes with known ROI.
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Bonus Benefits:

  • Transforms stale cultures into powerful, empowered teams.
  • Builds feedback loops into process activities.
  • Ensures management and executives know how to be part of the solution.
  • Gives everyone a voice.
  • Allows management-by-fact and results.
  • Makes processes natural.
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Did you know that your technology project has an 80% chance of failing? Do you know what to do to improve those odds? Do you know what to ask your software developer or vendor to make sure they know what to do so that the project you're paying them to do doesn't fail?
Would you like your software estimates to improve? Would you like to have predictability and consistency in your software projects? Wouldn't it be nice if you could forecast your capacity for new work and your sales effort? Wouldn't better estimats result in happier clients?

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