Virtusa reaches CMMI Level 4 maturity

Virtusa Corporation, has been assessed at Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) Level 4 by the independent lead assessors of KMPG India on August 12, 2005.

The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Melon University, USA introduced the CMMI model to assess the capabilities of emerging modern software development practices, superseding its earlier CMM model which had been based on conventional water-fall methodology.

Since the introduction of the CMMI V1.1 model in December 2001, worldwide there have been just over 70 other companies which have been assessed at CMMI Level 4 or Level 5 according to SEI published data.

With its Level 4 assessment, Virtusa joins the world wide league of high maturity organisation which is a true endorsement of the rigour, predictability and quality of its delivery capability as a company.

The CMMI Model describes an evolutionary improvement path from an ad-hoc, immature process, to a highly mature, disciplined process. The model describes the key elements of an effective software engineering process and covers practices for project planning, engineering, and managing software development and maintenance.

CMMI helps an organisation to integrate traditionally separate organisational functions set process improvement goals, and provide a point of reference for appraising current processes.

CMMI has become the industry accepted yardstick in assessing an organisation's software engineering process maturity and a significant checkpoint to build credibility in offshoring software development.

CMMI Level 4 ensures that project deliveries are metric driven in a prediction based manner leveraging past engagement data as a guide. This ensures organisation's move from a reactive approach to a proactive data driven project management approach.

A data driven approach also provides a measurable baseline to continually improve the overall quality and predictability of the organisation through continuous, measured, process improvement programmes.