It is important that a CMMI high maturity organization keeps on working towards maturing its high maturity to higher and higher levels. Going higher on CMMI high maturity will certainly impact the business performance parameters that matter most to any business enterprise - an ever growing top line along with a healthy bottom line.
Going higher on CMMI high maturity requires leveraging the OPM and OPP process areas. In a certain sense the whole idea underlying this is so simple that it might appear too good to be true. It is, however, that way. One needs to consider the typical cycle of improvement to understand the above.
The PDCA concept is probably the simplest yet the most powerful concept in the area of process and performance improvement. The OPM and OPP process areas can be easily mapped to PDCA albeit with a different permutation (DCAP - P moves to the end) and extending the cycle with two additional activities - 'I' (Improve) and 'DD' (Do Differently). DCAP-IDD can be explained in the following manner:
Going higher on CMMI high maturity requires leveraging the OPM and OPP process areas. In a certain sense the whole idea underlying this is so simple that it might appear too good to be true. It is, however, that way. One needs to consider the typical cycle of improvement to understand the above.
The PDCA concept is probably the simplest yet the most powerful concept in the area of process and performance improvement. The OPM and OPP process areas can be easily mapped to PDCA albeit with a different permutation (DCAP - P moves to the end) and extending the cycle with two additional activities - 'I' (Improve) and 'DD' (Do Differently). DCAP-IDD can be explained in the following manner:
- D (Do) - execute business processes in accordance with business objectives and organizational performance goals
- C (Check) - determine current process performance - use OPP (derive the PPBs and PPMs)
- A (Act) - compare current performance against target performance and in case of deviations identify appropriate process improvement actions- use OPM
- P (Plan) - plan process improvement actions - use OPM
- I (Improve) - implement process improvement actions to improve processes - use OPM
- DD (Do Differently) - execute business processes differently, i.e., using improved processes with the difference this time as compared to the first Do being that achieving business objectives and organizational performance goals will (hopefully) have higher likelihood.
