Speaker Profile
Ralph Williams, President
Cooliemon
About
Mr. Ralph Williams is the founder of Cooliemon, a CMMI Institute Transition Partner company dedicated to help organizations measurably improve performance.
Mr. Williams is a long-standing High Maturity Lead Appraiser and CMMI Instructor and has appraised a variety of organizations at all levels of the CMMI, from small companies to large, from commercial to government.
Mr. Williams is also well versed in multiple quality strategies (e.g., ISO, Dr. Juran, Covey) and has helped many organizations in integrating CMMI with newer methodologies (e.g., Agile, DevOps) and tools.
He leverages his Math, Software Engineering, Quality Director background for a “natural” CMMI adoption
SPEAKER PRESENTATION
Conference Track: CMMI Adoption – V2.0 Experiences
As an organization is working through how to transition to CMMI V2.0 for the first time or from CMMI V1.3, there are basic activities that they should execute. It starts with transitional mapping. What external standards are your processes aligned with? Treat this activity similar to RDM. As you go through your mapping and gap analysis, use this as an opportunity to elevate those items in processes where teams have exhibited excellence in performance. You will identify big and minor gaps based on either newness to the model or previously identified gaps in execution. Use these areas to help better define your improvements/transition via PCM (ML3), while Improved Performance.
Conference Track: CMMI Adoption – V2.0 Transition
Transitioning from CMMI V1.3 to V2.0 can have its challenges. As CMMI V1.3 sunset period is only around the corner it is important to understand and plan for the change.
This presentation highlights lessons learned from transitioning from CMMI V1.3 to V2.0 for both CMMI-SVC and CMMI-DEV Maturity Level 5 Gold Nuggets will be shared from
•Securing Senior Management sponsorship and answering
> Why should we change?
> What is the value?
• Performing a Gap analysis between V1.3 to V2.0 including demystifying Practice Areas such as
- MPM
- II and GOV
•Understanding the new appraisal method including the
- Random Group Sampling
- Appraisal Performance Report