The CMMI Institute and our collaborator, UNICOM are pleased to announce that the SEPG Europe Conference 2013 will take place at the Casa400 Hotel, Amsterdam, November 14-15. SEPG Europe will be co-organised by the CMMI Institute [ www.cmmiinstitute.com ] and a long established IT conference company, UNICOM [www.unicom.co.uk ]. This year’s conference is aimed at organizations [...]
CMMI Institute and Siemens AG release technical paper on Security and DEV
CMMI Institute has published a new technical note authored by Siemens AG Corporate Technology, entitled Security by Design with CMMI for Development, Version 1.3: An Application Guide for Improving Processes for Secure Products. This application guide is a set of additional process areas for CMMI® (Capability Maturity Model® Integration) for Development, Version 1.3 (CMMI-DEV, V1.3) [...]

Data Management Maturity Model Pilot Opportunities
In addition to serving as the steward for CMMI, the CMMI Institute is also the home of the Data Management Maturity Model, being developed in collaboration with the Enterprise Data Management Council. We have evolved the model’s core content into a format that is consistent with the CMMI models. As we progress toward completion, the [...]

New Book Helps Professionals Get Performance Results from Process Improvement
A just-published book from a CMMI Institute Partner offers guidance to process professionals around the world on achieving positive return on process investment. Michael West, CMMI Institute-Certified SCAMPI Lead Appraiser and co-founder of Natural Systems Process Improvement, Inc., has penned Return On Process (ROP): Getting Real Performance Results from Process Improvement, a book that provides strategic and [...]

CMMI Institute Announces SEPG North America 2013 is Coming to Pittsburgh
The CMMI Institute is pleased to announce that SEPG North America 2013 will be held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 1-2, 2013. We are thrilled to welcome the community to our home city for two days of high-quality learning and networking. With a more compact schedule designed to [...]

CMMI Institute Speakers Featured at SPIN London Town Hall Meeting
Lisa Masciantonio, partner and client operations director, and Jay Douglass, business development director, spoke on behalf of the CMMI Institute at a town hall meeting hosted by SPIN London held on February 25, 2013. Masciantonio and Douglass shared plans for the CMMI Institute, the new organizational steward of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), and [...]

Cutter IT Journal Features CMMI Institute Partners: Foreword by Hillel Glazer, CMMI + Scrum Article by Jeff Dalton
A recent issue of Cutter IT Journal featured two CMMI Institute Partners in an issue that explores topics related to agile CMMI. CMMI Institute Partner Hillel Glazer serves as guest editor and provides a preview on the articles included in the issue and perspective on the agile CMMI conversation. Glazer states, “I’m pleased to report [...]

Federal Computer Week Reports CMMI Helped the IRS Improve Operations
Terry Millholland, the IRS’s first CTO, proposed a plan to improve the IRS operations through Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). Federal Computer Week covered Millholland’s efforts to improve software development with CMMI and its journey to a Maturity Level 3 rating. In the article, Millholland said of CMMI, “The net of this is to dramatically improve the [...]
What does the future hold for CMMI? Interview with Jay Douglass of the CMMI Institute
Jay Douglas, Business Development Manager at the CMMI Institute, talks about what the future holds for CMMI:
PAB Chair Visits New CMMI offices
Partner Advisory Board (PAB) Chair Jeff Dalton spent the day in Pittsburgh at the new CMMI Institute offices with CEO Kirk Botula and Partner Manager Lisa Masciantonio discussing PAB plans for 2013. As partner information is developed and finalized, you can read the latest on the PAB Chair Blog.

