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Software Process Improvement (SPI)


In this era of rapid technological innovations and changes, the formula for success of a software development organization lies in the continual improvement of its processes and leveraging its effectiveness for business excellence.

KPMG prepares organizations to move towards business excellence through integrated model based software process improvement and assessment services.

KPMG - has internationally recognised intellectual resources with proven professional experience to chart a value added sustainable process improvement. This is based on contemporary models such as: SEI-CMM, P-CMM, SPICE (ISO 15504), ISO 9001, CMM-I, and PSP/TSP. KPMG is the official transition partner with Software Engineering Institute for upcoming models like CMM-I and PSP/TSP.

KPMG is a pioneer in software process improvement in the Asia - Pacific Region and it serves some of the major Indian software houses and leading multinational software companies in India.

KPMG's Approach to Software Process Improvement (SPI):

KPMG's SPI services focus primarily on assisting companies in achieving corporate excellence, through a holistic approach.

Scoping: We provide assistance to small, medium and large software organizations with the requisite sizing of the opted models for process improvement.

Harmonization: We align the process improvement initiatives of our clients with the available and evolving international standards. Business value is realised by aligning your process improvement initiatives to business goals.

Migration: We assist your organisation in migrating from one model to another with our internal expertise.

Context Specific Assessments: We believe and practice the context specific assessments that are an independent view of your business environment and provide enhanced value to improve upon further.

People Dimension: We believe in the maxim that it is people who instantiate the processes to effectuate the products.

Hence we always ensure that the people dimension and organizational learning climate aspects are built into our services.



KPMG: The resources to help you compete

KPMG has dynamic professional resources with leverageable practical insights to assist your organization with:

Gap analysis: KPMG assessors perform formal gap analysis of the quality system both on the documentation adequacy and the implementation vis-à-vis the requirements of the targeted maturity level of the organization. This results in a snapshot of the strengths and weaknesses of the software development processes of the organization and paves the way for the improvement strategy.

Action Planning: KPMG provides a critical set of activities that need to be established and monitored for the targeted maturity level.

Training: KPMG provides training on introduction to CMM and P-CMM to software development teams and executive briefings to corporate management.

Facilitation: KPMG consults with your organization in making timely correction in the establishment of the practices of the targeted maturity level. This facilitation would span through the final assessment.

Assessment: KPMG performs the complete CBA-IPI assessment, SCAMPI assessment and P-CMM assessment cycles and releases the formal assessment report. It helps you baseline the process capability of your organization.

To meet the process improvement needs of software companies, Software Process Improvement ('SPI') provides the following services:



CMM Consulting & CBA -IPI assessment services

The Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM) is a framework that describes the key elements of an effective software process. CMM describes an evolutionary improvement path from an ad hoc, immature process to a mature, disciplined process


CMM-I Consulting & SCAMPI Assessment Services
The purpose of CMM Integration is to provide guidance for improving the organisation's processes and ability to manage the development, acquisition, maintenance and integration of products and services


Consulting and training on Personal Software Process (PSP) & Team Software Process (TSP)
PSP is a process designed for individual use based on scaled down industrial software practices. It demonstrates the value of using processes defined as per process models like CMM and CMM I. TSP is a method designed for PSP trained software engineering team to foster high performance

P-CMM Consulting & Assessment Services

The People Capability Maturity Model (P-CMM) is a maturity framework that focuses on continuously improving the management and development of the human assets of an organization

SMCMM and CMM Integration and PCMM are Service Marks of Carnegie Mellon University.
Capability Maturity Model, Capability Maturity Modeling are Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trade Marks Office
SMPersonal Software Process and Team Software Process are Service Marks of Carnegie Mellon University


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