CMM 201 – Implementing a Maturity Model

Most organizations face continuing challenges to improve access to data and information that will enable stronger business processes and provide competitive advantages. The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) approach has been used successfully by many organizations in all sectors of industry and government as the foundation for a process to assess the relative maturity of practices in many areas, including but not limited to data and metadata management, data warehousing, and data governance maturities.

With the explosion of interest around data, information, and knowledge, it has become extremely important for organizations to be able to measure their relative maturity in metadata management, data governance, and stewardship, as well as the processes which support them. The CMM approach can be effective in creating and implementing assessments in these critical areas.

This seminar will present an approach to assessment development and implementation based on the Capability Maturity Model. It will show its applicability to many areas in information systems (data management, process improvement, governance, data warehousing, etc.) and focus on the concepts and activities needed to create and maintain a continuous assessment practice within any organization. The attendee will learn about how to develop a plan for instituting a CMM-based strategy within their organization for metadata management, governance and stewardship, and information systems processes. Each attendee will create a basic plan for developing a maturity assessment for their organization’s needs and have the opportunity to review it with the instructor and other participants. To fully benefit from this course, it is strongly recommended that the attendee successfully complete the “Fundamentals of the CMM” course offered through EWSolutions.

It is often difficult to demonstrate how benefits can be achieved quickly enough to satisfy those who need to see results promptly. One method that can show both immediate and strategic results for an approach is maturity modeling, which can be tailored for almost any discipline (software process, software integration, project management, data management, governance, etc.).

The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and its derivatives instantiated the concepts of examining progression toward “maturity” in some discipline. The CMM-oriented models measure how much an organization uses defined processes to manage some activity (once again: software process development, system integration, data management, etc.).

Through case studies and team interaction, attendees will attain the real-world implementation skills necessary to build a program for their organization. Attendees will receive examples of the various artifacts that form the documentation of a CMM program. Hands-on workshops throughout the course will reinforce the learning experience and provide the attendees with concrete results that can be used in their organizations.