Painting by Numbers: Using visible measures for lean management.
Grant Rule, pioneer of the application of Lean techniques to software process improvement, explores what measures can be used to inform decisions and behaviour at all levels; how to go about getting them in place; and how to make sure they are visible - and therefore applied.
Process
Appraisal or Benchmarking?
Clients often ask us, if their choice is between CMM® based appraisal or external benchmarking,
which do we recommend ...
Managing Supply Chains
If all stakeholders applied the rules of the CMMI® Acquisition PAs to all external interactions, just imagine how smoothly communications would run! Misunderstandings, blame, recriminations and buck-passing could become things of the past.
Does Your Selected Supplier Have the Capability to Deliver?
Now outsourcing is regarded as a
preferred method of acquiring a business system or even an organisation's
entire portfolio, the CMM® is increasingly applied for its
original purpose, as a means of supplier capability evaluation
and monitoring.
