Borland : Consulting Services : Process Optimization : Appraisals and Assessments

Borland provides you a full suite of appraisal services to help you understand and rate key improvement areas, on your path to Software Delivery Optimization (SDO).

Our SEI-authorized Lead Appraisers leverage experience from conducting more than 500 appraisals; we bring practical experience and knowledge of how to become a best-in-class organization. Our appraisal approach and interpretations are guided by the maturity model authors, ensuring that our analysis is objective, real world and focused on the factors that drive return-on-investment. Borland provides both formal (“certification”) and informal (mini-appraisal/gap analysis) maturity appraisals:

Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI) Appraisals
Borland offers SCAMPI Class A, B and C Appraisals for various disciplines (software, systems, etc.) and model representations (Staged, Continuous). Our SEI-authorized Lead Appraisers leverage experience from conducting more than 500 appraisals. Our appraisal approach and interpretations are guided by the maturity model authors, ensuring that our analysis is objective, real world and focused on the factors that drive return-on-investment.
Software Delivery Optimization (SDO) Assessments
Borland also provides less formal assessments of your software development organization – its processes, technologies and practices – to help you define aggressive yet manageable improvement initiatives in your quest to become best in class. Offerings include comprehensive assessments of the complete software delivery lifecycle and more focused assessments targeting specific functional capabilities of your organization.
People CMM Appraisals
Borland offers formal assessments, gap analyses, and questionnaire-based assessments to help you examine your HR processes and prioritize improvements for attracting, developing, motivating, organizing, and retaining a world class workforce. When used in conjunction with CMMI, it helps identify positive and negative enablers to the desired change in software development performance.