CMMI® Appraisal Services

An appraisal is an activity that helps you to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your organization’s processes and to examine how closely the processes relate to CMMI best practices.

Organizations find value in measuring their capability and performance by conducting an appraisal to identify and prioritize their business improvement eﬀorts and eventually earning a benchmark maturity level or a capability level achievement.

An appraisal enables your organization to:

Plan for an improvement strategy for your organization to prioritize the most important business performance improvement.

Mitigate risks for product and service acquisition, development, delivery, and monitoring.

Demonstrate to customers and business partners the soundness of your processes by having your appraisal results available on the Published Appraisal Results (PARS) site.

Business Beam and CMMI Appraisals

Business Beam is the CMMI Institute’s partner organization. Our lead appraisers are highly experienced, trained, certified, and licensed by the institute to deliver authentic appraisal services as follows:

Evaluation Appraisal

An informal and ﬂexible approach used to help organizations prepare for an appraisal and determine opportunities for improvement.

Benchmark Appraisal

Identify opportunities for organizations to improve how they implement processes and their overall business performance.

Action Plan Reappraisal

A “second-chance” for organizations that narrowly failed to achieve their targeted appraisal level in a previous appraisal.

Sustainment Appraisal

Appraisal “check-up” done two years following a Benchmark Appraisal to determine if the organization is maintaining their appraisal level.

SCAMPI Appraisals

SCAMPI (Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement) include Class C, B and A Appraisals. SCAMPI technique was used for CMMI v1.3 (development, services and acquisition).

Capability and Maturity Levels

Business Beam offers appraisal services for all desired capability or maturity levels, and for all CMMI models including CMMI Development, Services, Acquisition and People CMM.

The maturity level or capability level of an organization provides a way to characterize its capability and performance.

Capability Levels (0 to 3)

Capability levels apply to an organization’s performance and process improvement achievements in individual practice areas. Within practice areas, the practices are organized into practice groups which provide an evolutionary path to performance improvement.

Maturity Levels (0 to 5)

Maturity levels represent a staged path for an organization’s performance and process improvement efforts based on predefined sets of practice areas. Within each maturity level, the predefined set of PA’s also provide a path to performance improvement.

Within each maturity level, the predefined set of PA’s also provide a path to performance improvement.