Keymind Earns CMMI Level 3
May 21, 2008
Falls Church, VA. Axiom’s Keymind Division has been successfully appraised at Level 3 of the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development (CMMI-DEV), version 1.2.
In non-techie speak: Keymind—as a CMMI Level 3 organization—can now compete for contracts for which CMMI is a prerequisite or an evaluative factor. Level 3 of the CMMI, which defines processes at the organizational level, focuses on software and systems-engineering processes and practices.
The evaluators observed some particular strengths in Keymind’s methodology: wireframes that facilitate end-user understanding, an automated continuous build process, a standard technical architecture, and a fully iterative (agile) software development lifecycle approach.
This energizing news was greeted with much enthusiasm by Axiom’s partners, Kevin Riley and A. Douglas Peardon. “We are very proud of the entire Keymind staff, who worked extremely hard to achieve this coveted and difficult-to-achieve milestone,” said Mr. Riley. Mr. Peardon adds: “It is a quantum leap for our team; we are excited about our increasing ability to secure contracts in an ever-widening arena.”
About CMMI
A maturity model is a structured collection of elements that describe certain aspects of an organization’s maturity. CMMI is a process capability maturity model that helps to define and understand an organization's processes. The Software Engineering Institute (SEI), at Carnegie Mellon University, began developing the model in 1986. The original model was intended as an evaluative tool to measure government contractors’ ability to perform a contracted software project. Though CMMI’s origins are in software development, its scope has widened; it now assists evaluators in understanding the process capability maturity of organizations in diverse areas, including system engineering, project management, risk management, system acquisition, information technology, and personnel management.
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