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“Stages for CMMI”, the newest pre-customized Stages version will be officially released on SEPG in San Jose, CA.

In addition to the usual release information, that you can find here, there are a few things that might interest you. “Stages for CMMI” comes with all three CMMI models that are currently available: CMMI for Development (CMMI-DEV), CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC) and CMMI for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ). All three come with their latest releases. With that, you can model your processes and make sure that they are compliant to any of these models.

The interesting part is, you can use the best of these models in parallel. Organizations that have both development and services (and that’s almost every organisation on the planet) are able to choose the parts of the models that they like to concentrate on and check their processes against them. So even if you do not plan to implement everything that CMMI is telling you (and that’s A LOT), you can select those parts of the model that support your business goals.

This has some important implications on the way you describe and publish your processes. You simply give your users the information they need for their daily work (e.g., templates for work products, methodology information, direct access to project documents) instead of overwhelming them with CMMI model theory and terminology. Thus, your people don’t find themselves in a completely different world. It helps them understanding the basics and, in turn, boosts your process acceptance.

Seen from the technical side, “Stages for CMMI” is a full feature release. It contains all functional features that are available in normal Stages versions.

If you have further questions, feel free to ask.

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Method Park and Actano recently announced a partnership. See our website for more info. The main focus of the partnership lies in the integration of the tools Stages and RPlan. The main idea is to bridge the gap between the process definition and the project planning. Processes need to be transformed into plans and plans need to be checked against the process definition.

It is already possible to transform a tailored process definiton from Stages to a RPlan project plan template. The development team is working towards a solution that requires only one or two clicks.

Visit us on our Method Park Technologie Forum to see a demo.

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Hi,

the next major project kit version (now Stages) will be field tested during the upcoming weeks. It will be called “Stages” and contains some exciting new features for managing your processes. The hottest issues are:

• A fully automated metrics collection and reporting engine helps you in defining and measuring product, project and process metrics.
• The new process version and configuration management allows you to version process elements, baseline them and release process configurations to your users.
• A process wiki will collect all your valuable knowledge that is not already contained in your process descriptions or does not fit there. The wiki allows you to use project kit (now Stages) as a complete process asset library and is a great assistance for rolling out your processes.

If the field tests are successful, Stages will hit the stores somewhere in May.

Stay tuned for more info.

Erich

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