Ultimately, as we all know, that it is not about CMMI Initiative. It is about good process and good service delivery and product delivery systems in the organization. CMMI Initiatives help us to achieve this. Hence rejection of CMMI Initiatives because of escalating costs is not a very welcome idea. Rajendra Khare concluded that the online CMMI Consulting and Assessment service is a balanced compromise.

The on-line CMMI Consulting service will provide thepractitioners of the organization get the right inputs at the right time. The online service would facilitate this in comparison to the model where service is provided through site visits. The online consulting service is availabe at DQS Certification India Website: www.dqsindia.com

DQS Certification with its knowledge expertise in this field would be able to support the CMMI and Process Improvement Initiatives in the organizations through on-line support.

This knowledge portal will cover subject matter on management system courses like environmental management, quality management, automotive sector quality management, ergonomics and heath safety management, aerospace quality management and information security management, etc. The uniqueness about these products would be that they would help the industry practitioners to enhance their knowledge in the area of their experience and will lead to improved management practices and efficient process implementation.

Rajendra Khare, the Managing Director and SEI Authorized Lead Appraiser, DQS Certification India Private Limited, mentioned that these training and learning materials would be available at very cost-effective prices and would have a very high knowledge content to satisfy the learning needs of industry practitioners. Rajendra also mentioned that portal would be commissioned by the end of August, 2008, and would be fully functional by end of 2008. Ravi Singh, the Program Director for Management System Learning Courses and Associate Director at DQS Certification India Private Limited, mentioned that he realized the need of such portal on the basis of his research on the learning requirements of industry in various sectors including both manufacturing and services sector.

Date:27-July-2008

DQS Certification India, an SEI Authorized Transition Partner, completed the CMMI SCAMPI Assessment recently and assigned the CMMI Maturity Level 3 to Al-Bilad Arabia Company Limited (ABA)

CMMI standing for Capability Maturity Model Integrated is the structured collection of software engineering best practices that has been published by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) located at Pittsburgh, USA. CMMI and SCAMPI are the registered trademark and service-mark of SEI, CMU, USA.

ABA has been able to satisfy the requirements of CMMI Model Framework upto Level 3, said Rajendra Khare, the SEI Authorized Lead Appraiser from DQS Certification. He further said that the CMMI Level 3 requirements cover both project and organizational processes.

Tawfik Chilmeran, ABA’s IT Services Manager, commented that this initiative is a significant milestone for ABA and it symbolizes ABA’s commitment to its clients to deliver quality services on time and according to client expectations. He added this is an on-going initiative and ABA will continue to invest in its process, people and technology improvement methodologies. Tawfik identified the ABA’s team effort as the key success factor in achieving CMMI Maturity Level 3. The other key success factors were the top management commitment to invest in this initiative and their high level of involvement.

On this occasion, Tawfik thanked ABA’s CEO, Mr.Bader Al-Suweidan for his continued support and direct involvement and appreciated the efforts of ABA’s Delivery Manager, Mr.Surendra Jajal, for his significant contribution to develop the ABA CMMI knowledge framework and its effective implementation.

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