Continuous Integration (CI) is an emerging approach combining new automation technologies and procedures. It exists in order to ensure that defects are found and fixed as quickly as they are inserted into the code baseline.  CMI can help your team implement CI in such a way that provides adequate protection to the enterprise.  Our Practice Framework allows your organization to accommodate the “right amount” of process controls while accelerating your development team’s productivity.

Agile Development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development. Agile has proven itself in the industry as a way to produce working software faster and for less money but, can also limit managements visibility into the project. CMI can help your organization deploy integrated tools solutions via our Tool Implementation and Support solutions. We can achieve success with only minor changes to your current implementation of Agile, to support both the mandates for faster, cheaper, better, as well the need for effective management of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for project management. The SCRUM framework is often seen in the Agile software development projects. Scrum can be used to run software maintenance teams or project/program management approaches. CMI can help your organization apply the SCRUM framework to your SDLC process via our ALM Assessment and our Program & Project Management Link services to help enhance and accelerate your development cycle.

CMI project management services help improve the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) by addressing critical success factors that include, establishing advocates at all levels of the organization, orchestrating cultural change, communication, and keeping the pressure on deadlines and milestones.

Project planning is initiated in the early stages of every project and tailored to suit the project’s specific requirements. Detailed project plans are prepared and maintained for every project by the project managers. These plans are comprehensive and cover all aspects of the project including:
 

• Project objective and scope
• Roles/responsibilities
• Dependencies and assumptions
• Customer requirements
• Project methodologies
• Project team structure
• Project phases
• Schedule and milestones
• Internal project deliverables
• Tools and techniques

Planning documents in this phase include a detailed quality plan, contingency plan, training plan, and configuration management plan.

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Quality Assurance through Testing

Quality Assurance refers to a systematic approach to evaluating a product’s quality, with the implicit goal of assuring that product of insufficient quality is not released.

CMI can assist its client’s quality management group to ensure that QA activities are planned and carried out effectively in the organization. CMI provides the following types of software testing services:

• Functionality Testing
• Performance Testing
• Regression Testing
• Test Automation

Quality Assurance through Process Engineering

Quality Management Systems comprise the documentation and quality records by management ensures that work is performed as specified to achieve or maintain quality objectives.

Regulated industries are typically required to implement Quality Management Systems which meet a certain standard such as ISO 9001.  Regulators will then audit whether a given Quality Management System meets the standard, and whether evidence exists to prove that a company is actually performing work as documented in its Quality Management System.

Quality Management Systems are associated with red tape, mindless paperwork, and loss of productivity.  However, CMI’s Practice Framework can help your company achieve its regulatory requirements in ways that accelerate your team’s productivity rather than impeding it.

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In many organizations, Release Management refers to the technical discipline involving the automation of release packaging and deployment, especially with respect to managing dependencies.  In this context Release Management includes the deployment process as well as accurately documenting the complex and changing dependencies among the systems constituting the software. CMI supports this practice as part of Build Automation and Support .

It is important to note that some organizations view Release Management as a discipline that spans from the development of requirements through the final deployment of the production packages. CMI services increase the timeliness, reproducibility, and reliability of deployed applications that are made available to end users.

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