CMMICMMI Benefits have been experienced by all types of software organizations in the world and the benefits achieved are well documented and researched:
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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
As per the research conducted by SEI - a very large number of organizations, small, medium and large – using different types of development methodologies – from conventional to agile and extreme programming – have benefited by implementing the CMMI specific and generic practices. Information about CMMI benefits is available in the August 2006 SEI technical report, Performance Results of CMMI-Based Process Improvement. This report on the benefits of CMMI is based on public reports, interviews, supplementary materials, and comprehensive literature review
It is an established fact that by using the CMMI Model Framework implementation, the organizations have gained in the following areas:
- Cost
- Schedule
- Productivity
- Quality
- Customer Satisfaction
- Return on Investment
How Do You Want to Work?
- Without CMMI: do we work with Random motion – lots of energy, not much progress, No teamwork – individual effort, high frequency of conflicts and ultimately not knowing where you are going to end up.
- With CMMI: we work with - Directed motion – every step bringing you closer to the goal, Coordinated efforts, Cooperation and Predictable results
Examples of CMMI Benefits:
A quick extract from the above-mentioned reports give us information about the following benefits achieved from CMMI Implementation:Example of CMMI Benefits: Schedule
- 50% reduction in release of turn-around time
- Increased the percentage of milestones met from approximately 50% to approximately 95% percent (General Motors)
- Decreased the average numbers of days late from approximately 50 to fewer than 10 (General Motors)
- Increased through-put resulting in more releases per year
- Met every milestone (25 in a row) on time, with high quality and customer satisfaction (Northrop Grumman Defense Enterprise Systems)
Example of CMMI Benefits: Productivity
- Improved productivity substantially, with “Significantly more rigorous engineering practices” due to CMMI® (Fort Still Fire Support Software Engineering Centre)
- Improved software productivity (including reuse) from a 1992 baseline by approximately 80 percent at SW-CMM® maturity Level 5 1997 to over 140 percent at CMMI ML 5 in 2001 (Lockheed Martin Systems Integration)
- 25 Percent productivity improvement in 3 years (Siemens Information Systems Ltd, India)
Examples of CMMI Benefits: Quality
- Used Measurement & Analysis to realize an 11 percent increase in productivity, corresponding to $ 4.4M in additional value (reported under non-disclosure)
- Reduced software defects per million delivered SLOC by over 50 percent compared to defects prior to CMMI.
- Reduced defects rate at CMMI ML5 approximately one third compared to performance at SW-CMM ML5.
- Improved defect removal before test from 50 percent 70 percent, leaving 0.35 post release defects per KLOC.
- 44 percent defect reduction following causal analysis cycle at maturity level 2.