Prowise SystemsAustin, TX, USA
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
CMMI
CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) is a process improvement model owned by ISACA. It describes practices across domains such as development, services, supplier management, safety, security, people, and (in V3.0) virtual work and data management, arranged in maturity levels 1 through 5 and capability levels 0 through 3. CMMI V3.0 was released in 2023.
Organizations do not get certified; they are appraised, and a Benchmark appraisal produces a maturity or capability level rating that ISACA publishes.
In writing, CMMI expects an organization to have documented its processes at the level it is claiming: defined process descriptions, tailoring guidelines, process asset library, plans and estimates, measurement repositories, peer review and verification records, supplier agreements, and evidence that projects actually follow the processes.
Higher levels add quantitative management and organizational performance data. An appraisal team samples projects and reviews artifacts and interviews against each practice.
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Who has to comply
Voluntary. Common in US federal and defense contracting (some solicitations specify a maturity level), large IT services and outsourcing firms, and organizations using it as an internal improvement framework. Not a legal requirement anywhere.
What the assessor asks to see
Organizational scope and sampling of projects or work groups; process descriptions and tailoring records; project plans, estimates, schedules, and status reports; requirements and design artifacts; configuration management records; peer review and testing records; measurement data and analysis; risk registers; supplier agreements and monitoring; training plans and records; process improvement plans and lessons learned; for higher levels, quantitative process performance baselines and models; interviews with practitioners and managers to confirm practice use.
Where the requirement sits: CMMI v3.0 (ISACA) practice areas; appraisal evidence = artifacts + affirmations
Appraisal types
Benchmark appraisals produce the official rating and are the most rigorous. Sustainment appraisals maintain a rating between Benchmarks with a smaller sample. Evaluation appraisals are informal gap checks that produce no rating.
Action Plan Reappraisals address specific findings after a Benchmark. Only a Certified Lead Appraiser working through a licensed Partner can run a Benchmark, and results go through ISACA quality review before publication.
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Every document is approved by someone other than its author, versioned, distributed to the people it covers and acknowledged by name. Sign it where a signature is what the standard wants, send a set out together as a package, and export a dated record of who read which version when an assessor asks.
The written policies this standard turns on live here, with every version and every acknowledgment on the record.
Who helps with CMMI
A structured ecosystem exists: ISACA licenses CMMI Partners, and only Partners can sponsor Certified Lead Appraisers and deliver official training. Consultants (often Partners) run gap analyses, help design and document processes, coach project teams, run readiness reviews, and then either conduct or arrange the appraisal.
Reaching maturity level 3 from scratch commonly takes 12 to 24 months.
Firms that name this framework in their own material. A listing is not a recommendation. Each firm can confirm its own.
Listed in random order, reshuffled each time the page loads. Firms that pay for a listing are shown at the top, labeled Sponsored.
Global Quality Services (GQS India)Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
Capital Quality Consulting LtdHambrook, Bristol, UK
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 22301, AS9100 and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
Orion Canada Inc.Ottawa, ON, Canada
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, CMMC, ISO 14001 and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
IQC The ISO Professionals (ISO Pros)USA
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 9001, CMMC, NIST 800-171, ISO 14001 and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
My ISO ConsultantsCrestline, CA, USA
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, SOC 2, ISO 9001, HIPAA, CMMC and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
Brand Consulting Group Inc. (BCGISO)Sheridan, WY, USA
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 13485 and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
QualitcertBengaluru, Karnataka, India
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISO 9001, PCI DSS and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
GQSSingapore
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISO 9001, HIPAA and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
ISO SolutionsThane, Maharashtra, India
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
ISOguruSan Diego, California, USA
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
KwikCertBahrain
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISO 9001, PCI DSS and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
ProcessLOGIX Consulting Pvt. Ltd.Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISO 9001, HIPAA and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
Qualitas ConsultingDoha, Qatar
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
SurakshaNowDelhi, India
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISO 9001, HIPAA and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
TAR TECH Consultancy ServicesBangalore, Karnataka, India
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
Veave Technologies Pvt. Ltd.Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISO 9001, HIPAA and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
VerosCertBangalore, Karnataka, India
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISO 9001, HIPAA and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
VQMS Pvt Ltd.New Delhi, Delhi, India
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
Excellence in Measurement TechnologyMcLean, VA, USA
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, CMMC.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
AlluvionicMelbourne, Florida, USA
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, HIPAA, CMMC and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
Integration Technologies Group, Inc.Falls Church, Virginia, USA
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, CMMC, NIST 800-171 and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
Kreative CorporationChantilly, Virginia, USA
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, CMMC, NIST 800-171 and more.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
W R Systems, Ltd.Fairfax, Virginia, USA
- What they do
- Compliance consulting
- Who they help
- Its website offers consulting for CMMI, ISO 9001, CMMC, ISO 27000.
- Standards
- Pricing
- Not published
Who assesses CMMI
ISACA Certified CMMI Lead Appraisers sponsored by a licensed CMMI Partner organization, using the CMMI Appraisal Method (Benchmark, Sustainment, Evaluation, or Action Plan Reappraisal). Accredited by ISACA (licenses Partners, certifies Lead Appraisers, and quality-reviews appraisal submissions).
Public register of assessors: cmmiinstitute.com ↗
Assessors
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Tools for CMMI
Tools that name this framework in their own material.
Grouped by type. Inside each group the order is random, reshuffled each time the page loads. AllyMatter, the publisher of this site, is always first.
AllyMatterPolicy management tool, the policy and acknowledgment layerPublisher of this siteRelated reading
- CMMI appraisals: what they offer your organizationThe model owner on appraisal types, what a benchmark appraisal rates, and how long a published result stays valid.ISACA
- Software Engineering Institute digital libraryThe institute that created the maturity model still publishes the process-improvement research behind the practice areas, free to read.Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
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