Catalyic Consulting takes pride to educate the interested visitors and users. We at Catalyic, strive to get connected to the end user so that it will be benefited form the expert suggestions of our team of Lead Appraisers. Below, are some of the frequently asked queries regarding CMMI, SCAMPI- A Appraisal, maturity levels, capability levels and effective investments prospects.. Let’s read it out from here.

Q: What changes CMMI can reflect in my investments while adopting other process improvement approaches?

CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integrated) has compatibility with almost all the process improvement approaches such as SIX SIGMA, LEAN, Agile, ITSM, ISO 9001 and so on. CMMI is basically a set of true best practices that enhance the performance of processes in any organization. Therefore, CMMI has been designed to secure your investment, to formulate a strategic orientation for the processes and continue to conserve your adoption of CMMI. Essentially if nothing else, CMMI enables your organization to improve its processes and brings about a culture that supports needed change, as an advantage.

For more information, Intro to CMMI is helpful and castes a vivid and clearer understanding of CMMI core practices.

Q: Getting a maturity level would help more or capability levels?

It depends entirely upon your decision whether you want to get maturity level or capability level of CMMI as its based on the need of contract and what they require, however, few issues may influence your decision of choice here. It is important for you understand that on “getting a level” qualifies you to conducting a CMMI appraisal (known as SCAMPI-A appraisal). Selecting a CMMI model and defining the scope of organization that needs to be appraised is the requirement of such an appraisal. Furthermore, prior to this, you must first determine what results you are pursuing from such an appraisal. When you look forward to improving your organization’s process areas, Capability levels are an integral part of achieving success in each of the individual areas. The four capability levels of CMMI are numbered from 0 through 3. For instance, it can be reflected from your Appraisal results that some of the areas of the organization you appraised is capability level-3 which stands for Configuration Management, while some at capability level 2 which is for Decision Analysis and Resolution. As far as Maturity levels are concerned, it enables your organizations to achieve process improvement in multiple process areas. Maturity levels are a way of improving the processes matching to a particular set of process areas. CMMI has five maturity levels which are numbered from 1 through 5. All the organizations are on level 1, by default. The maturity levels are directly related to the scope of the organization that has been appraised.

Q: Is it necessary that a CMMI Appraisal always results in a maturity level?

The statement that CMMI Appraisal always results in a maturity level does not hold true. As the design reflects, the SCAMPI A method can only be enacted either as a stages process or a continuous one. When staged implementation is used, it is not obligatory to establish a maturity level as to be awarded. When continuous implementation is used, capability levels may be produced by the model for appraised process areas. When the rules for equivalent staging are followed, the maturity levels can be established through continuous method. This activity can lead to training of your SCAMPI Lead Appraiser.

Q: What does ISMS certification mean?

ISO/IEC 27001 certification is a certified process to examine ISMS (Information security management system) in an organization against the ISO/IEC 27001 specification as a benchmark, by an accredited certification body.

Q: Does ISO / IEC 27001 encompass the policy for risk assessment?

If you want to have complete prescription of methodology for risk assessment, then the specific methodology is not prescribed. However, there are specific practices and methodologies that will create a flawless system that also allow you to develop risk mitigation strategies and course of corrective actions to mitigate the risk. The standard develops a systematic approach to risk assessment which broadly covers all parameters of risk.

Q: Does implementing ISMS and certifying it using ISO/IEC 27001 affect my investment?

ISMS is all about the security, protection, preservation, integrity, availability and storage of the important information that forms the foundation of your business. If information is the core centric element of your business, them ISMS is a must. Moreover, as the digital world as evolved, our businesses are encircled around masses of information; therefore, you should consider implementing an ISMS to protect those assets within a sustainable framework. Most of the organizations today are implementing ISMS, as their vision is to reduce the errors to the minimum and allow easier access and availability of information including the contingency plans that are prime most features of ISMS. A successful ISMS certification thereby assures that an independent team of appraisers has audited your ISMS and authorized your adherence to the international standard. Having ISO / IEC 27001 certification acknowledged you of having a reputation and credibility of a responsible and proactive organization.