CMMI High Maturity

CMMI high maturity has gained a lot of importance over the last few years, and in a true sense this time around.

Not only that, achieving CMMI high maturity has become tougher also in the the last couple of years as explained in the post Is Achieving CMMI High Maturity Tougher Now?.

This is also clearly is evident if one were to analyze the trend of CMMI level 5 appraisals as explained in the post Trend of CMMI High Maturity Appraisals.

Achieving CMMI High Maturity is certainly a true indicator of the effectiveness of the software project delivery and project management practices employed by an organization.



And the days when almost all organizations directly attempted and achieved CMMI high maturity rating (eaither maturity level 4 or 5) are hopefully behind us.

One of the reasons for CMMI High Maturity gaining renewed importance appears to be the changes introduced to CMMI in the version 1.2 release.

CMMI High Maturity represents the highest order of achievement in the journey of an organization that adopts and implements CMMI.

Adopting CMMI high maturity practices is assumed to be tough as there's an apparent feeling that there Demystifying and Understanding CMMI High Maturity is not an easy task.

This, however, is more of a myth than anything.

Reaching high maturity in business is no mean achievement and should be based on strategic considerations as the cost and efforts involved with it are enormous.

The returns from becoming high maturity would justify the investments provided the achievement of CMMI high maturity is based on changes to the organization's DNA.

CMMI High Maturity and Six Sigma, adopted together can deliver significant benefits over the adoption of either framework in isolation.

Some pertinent questions and aspects that arise during any discussion on CMMI high maturity are as follows:
Clear understanding of the answers to the questions above is the key in ensuring the right type of implementation of CMMI high maturity practices by an organization.

And despite widely availability of literature that provides clarity on implementation of high maturity practices, these are still a neglected lot.

This is explained in much more detail in the following post elsewhere on this blog - Why Are CMMI High Maturity Practices So Very Much Neglected Despite Being So Very Powerful?

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