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Newsletter, Volume No. 12, Dec. 6, 2007

Latest DCG News and Information .....


CMMIŽ: Good for the world, good for the United States .....
by Tom Cagley, VP, Process Improvement and Measurement at DCG

The latest CMMIŽ Maturity profile report (Sept 07) from the Software Engineering Institute tells us a lot about the state of software process improvement. In a nutshell, adoption of CMMIŽ worldwide continues to increase with the rate of increase greater overseas than in the US. The data in the chart below and the accompanying graphic illustration (drawn from the CMMIŽ Maturity Report) tell us CMMIŽ continues to grow in all categories.





Furthermore, an interesting trend is the increase of CMMIŽ adoption in 2007 in the Business Services sector from 55% to 62% in contrast to a slight drop in Manufacturing to 21% from 23% in 2006. As expected because of the US Government Military mandate for CMMIŽ compliance more US Contractor for Military Government Firms reported than Commercial firms in both 2006 and 2007. This is expected since more and more Contractors firms, of all sizes, have to be at some level of CMMIŽ compliance. However the commercial sector is keeping pace indicating that the value proposition of improved performance from CMMIŽ continues to make inroads into the management decision making process.

Still looking at CMMIŽ? Need time and budget information for 2008 planning? Thinking about doing CMMIŽ in smaller bites? Then e-mail us today at info@davidconsultinggroup.com for an SPI Budget Guidance Conference with a DCG SME.


DCG EVENTS COMING SOON .....

DCG VVF Webinar: Does one size fit all in Process Improvement?
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DCG PAST EVENTS .....

Our DCG Team (Mike Harris and David Garmus), co-presented with Capers Jones at the ITMPI Conference in Austin, Oct. 2007.


(from left to right: Mike Harris, Tony Salvaggio, David Garmus, Ed Yourdon, Herb Krasner)


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