VSTS offers an excellent platform for automating the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) process improvement framework. Our CMMI Automation offering leverages your VSTS investment to achieve a higher CMMI maturity level. An Osellus consultant works with your CMMI team to combine VSTS process templates, work item execution and reporting to meet your CMMI objectives. The offering takes on a different form for each CMMI maturity level.

Level 2

Manage Your Projects in Accordance with a Pre-defined Process

Osellus develops project-ready VSTS process templates. Your project managers use these templates to devise project plans that are consistent with the underlying process model. Your development team receive direct guidance on the specific tasks assigned to them. The work flow transitions and state changes are automated across all development activities.

Level 3

Define and Deploy Organization-wide Standard Processes

An Osellus consultant defines a comprehensive process architecture to facilitate the ongoing development and maintenance of all your software development processes. This architecture is then used to define the standard processes for your organization and the corresponding VSTS process templates that can be used for each project category in a repeatable manner. We define tailoring guidelines for each standard process. Your project managers use these to tailor and instantiate the processes used in their projects. VSTS ensures that project activities and workflow are conducted in accordance to your standard processes. Your management team uses our VSTS CMMI reports to prepare for CMMI audits that would otherwise take a considerable time and effort.

Level 4

Measure Performance and Quality of Your Standard Processes

The Osellus CMMI Automation service helps you analyze the effectiveness of your processes by determining process compliance level within a project or process usage trends across multiple projects. An Osellus consultant will help your team to use VSTS to track variations from your prescribed processes to identify early corrective measures and lessons learnt.

Level 5

Optimize Your Development Processes for Maximum Results

An Osellus process consultant works with your team to use the VSTS data to define and monitor a set of process improvement metrics. These metrics are used to make incremental improvements to your standard processes and to stabilize these processes in the context of the process architecture developed before. Osellus assists your process team to deploy the process improvements on VSTS and monitor their effectiveness.