INTEGRATED MISSION SOLUTIONS DD(X ... - Raytheon

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
During 2003, Raytheon businesses are
making their integrated product development
processes compliant with the CMMI®
model requirements. CMMI is a joint
DoD/Industry project that provides a single
integrated framework for improving
processes in organizations that span several
disciplines (software and systems engineering,
supply chain, program management,
etc.). Recently several Raytheon businesses
successfully passed independently-led
CMMI appraisals. Jerry Charlow from IDS
and Ann Turner from IIS, with their teams,
led their sites and organizations to the first
CMMI Level 3 appraisals.
IDS
The IDS strategy to achieving CMMI compliance
was to leverage off existing
processes and architecture to demonstrate
institutionalization. From this strategy, two
independent teams were formed with Jerry
Charlow as the common program manager.
Each team underwent a formal appraisal
and successfully achieved CMMI Level 3 in
June 2003. This success resulted in IDS
becoming compliant across its business,
covering the following sites: Tewksbury,
Andover, Portsmouth, San Diego, Bedford,
Sudbury, and Huntsville. The scope of the
model used by IDS was the CMMI Systems
& Software Engineering Level 3 Model,
Staged Representation.
The IDS CMMI team, which consisted of a
wide array of disciplines, began their CMMI
planning in 2000, leveraging from the
existing software CMM capability and
maturity. The general approach for IDS was
to use the Raytheon Standard IPDS for its
procedures, processes, and enablers and
augment it with local process assets to fill
CMMI compliance gaps. In addition, an
enterprise viewpoint was used whereby in
many cases only one process asset or
training course was created for all disciplines
(e.g.; Risk Management Plan,
Decision Analysis & Resolution Course,
etc.). This approach was significant in
doing the “I” part of CMMI, integrating
the teams/programs to look at one
plan/process and speak the same language.
This was clearly an enterprise approach
involving the following disciplines: Systems
Engineering, Software Engineering,
Program Management, Quality, Supply
Chain Management, Configuration & Data
Management, Human Resources, etc. The
programs that were part of this activity,
XBR, THAAD Radar, CCS MK2, AQS-20,
LPD-18, and CAC2S, were superb in
their support.
The benefits of institutionalizing the
process are countless. The integration of
systems and software engineering disciplines,
the involvement of Quality to
objectively evaluate processes and ensure
their implementation, the involvement and
knowledge gained by the program offices
toward process improvement, the importance
placed on training people to do their
jobs more efficiently and a general awareness
across the enterprise of what CMMI
is and why it is important are just a few
of these benefits.
The future of process maturity for IDS is to
integrate legacy business processes and
architectures into one common set and
implement a plan to achieve CMMI Level 4
& 5 in SE, SW, IPPD, & SS, the full extent of
the CMMI Model.
President of IDS, Dan Smith had the following
words on CMMI.“This great achievement
of CMMI Level 3 demonstrates the
power and effectiveness of small focused
multi-discipline teams operating with a
common mission, specific focus, and an
ownership of success. CMMI Level 3 also
certifies the strong systems and software
engineering process embedded in
Raytheon’s IPDS and most importantly ties
to disciplined program management
required to successfully provide superior
solutions to our customers in full and open
partnership.”
IIS Garland
Intelligence and Information Systems
at Garland, Texas attained a Maturity
Level 3 rating for Systems and Software
Engineering using the staged representation
of the CMMI model. The Level 3
rating was the result of a two-year effort
by the site and an independent appraisal
led by Rick Barbour from the SEISM . During
a three-week period, the appraisal team,
which included two customer representatives,
reviewed over 6500 pieces of
objective evidence and interviewed 95
people in 23 interviews. The focus programs
for this appraisal were IDS-D,
MIND, and Viceroy. The appraisal team
identified best practices in program
management, measurement and analysis,
and supply chain management.
This achievement follows a long history of
process improvements at the Garland site.
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