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Wipro Infotech has achieved yet another
milestone in its Quality journey. It has been certified at Level
5, version 1.1 of CMMi. The assessment covers the Enterprise Solutions
division of Wipro Infotech. This division offers turn-key high-end
software solutions, which include package implementation and sustenance,
application development, application integration, and data warehousing
and business intelligence solutions.
The CMMi quality assessment is considered
more elaborate and rigorous than CMM as it covers both software
development processes as well as integration across 24 process areas
at five levels. In contrast the CMM covers just 18 process areas.
With this CMMi assessment, Wipro Infotech
becomes one of the eight companies that have achieved it globally.
This helps provide customers the assurance of the delivery of superior
value in the IT solutions implemented.
As the framework assesses an organisation’s
ability to develop solutions tailored to the business end-user,
the CMMi Level 5 assessment attests Wipro Infotech’s deep capabilities
in architecting end-to-end, process-driven business solutions for
its clients. It also ensures predictable delivery, lower field error
rate, defect free software and on time delivery to customers. Knowledge
sharing, increased productivity and defect reduction are some key
benefits to the organisation.
Suresh Vaswani, president of Wipro Infotech
said, “In Wipro, Quality is a continuum. CMMi Level 5 assessment
is but one more milestone in this continuous journey towards providing
total commitment to the needs of our customers.” As CMMi Level
5 is superior to CMM, covering more processes and integration as
against just software projects that CMM covers, we found that CMMi
assessment is more appropriate in the context of Wipro Infotech’s
businesses,” he added.
Wipro formed an assessment team of 10 consultants
who were trained. Over 100 man-months of effort went into the evaluation,
covering 425 practices at different levels.
Software Engineering Institute (SEI) realised
a need to update their CMM model to take into account some of the
areas they had felt needed strengthening. The result
was CMMi that combined Software Development,
System Integration and Integrated Product and Process Development.
The new CMMi is more exhaustive and stringent
as compared to CMM, as it covers 24 process areas as against 18
of CMM and 460 practices as compared to 316 in CMM. The key areas
that have been introduced are requirements development, use of operational
scenarios, shared-team vision, design alternative evaluation, quantitative
management at project level, to name a few.
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