Process Improvement Services:
Expert Guidance and Support

Overview

To compete effectively in today's world, organizations need well-defined, yet flexible processes, that help maintain a proper balance of discipline and agility, while meeting cost, schedule, and quality goals.

This requires technical know-how and judgment based on lessons learned.

ISRI provides guidance and support by drawing on our core expertise in education and research, combined with knowledge of global best practices.

Our programs in software and systems engineering and management can help any organization improve its practices, while we continue to advance the state-of-the-art through applied empirical research.

We are happy to note that our methods and technologies are used by leading companies around the world.


ISRI is an "SEI Partner"

ISRI is an "SEI Partner" authorized to teach the official SEI course Introduction to CMMI® and to conduct SCAMPISM appraisals.

Facets of Our Approach

Our approach is designed with these features:

Result-oriented: Our approach emphasizes measured improvement. We help organizations establish an infrastructure to foster sustainable improvement, and a path for that directly supports business success. We help organizations to establish a corporate infrastructure that will permanently guide their improvement efforts, and a system of measurement forming a basis for management decisions based on facts and data.

Reality-based: Regardless of any ratings of "CMMI Levels," our approach helps to select meaningful measures and collect relevant data, to focus the entire organization on an understandable basis for improvement and to promote data-driven decisions for future business success.

Value-added: As part of a major research university which is a not-for-profit institution, ISRI is solely committed to finding and promoting practical solutions that provide measurable value for our collaboration partners, and are implemented within win-win scenarios. Our goal is to establish mutually beneficial relationships that automatically become self-sustaining over the long run.




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