Cmmi tools

The CMMI model breaks down organizational maturity into five levels. Instead, they focus on maintenance and regular improvements. It can help bring structure to process and performance improvement and each level builds on the last, similar to the maturity levels for appraising an organization. Version 2.

Performance benchmarks and goals outlined in the CMMI can help businesses ensure all projects and processes are cost-effective or profitable. The latest version is also easier to deploy throughout an organization with less technical language and updated user-friendly and customizable online platforms and tools that will provide guidance for adopting CMMI or transitioning to V2.

The new assessment method made it possible for us to have a successful appraisal and made it much easier for us to adopt other methods such as Agile. Updated training has modular components with virtual and in-person options. The training is more learning objective oriented. Learn more about the following views of the V2. This online tool allows users to browse the model, download sections, and view context-specific content.

Contact a CMMI expert to learn more. Starting with V2. Additional artifacts, such as SQL Server reports are only available when you connect to a project. Other resource requirements apply. You can customize the work tracking system for your project by customizing an On-premises XML process. To learn more, see On-premises XML process customization. Additional artifacts, such as SQL Server reports and SharePoint dashboards, are only available when you connect to a project.

Teams plan their project by capturing features and requirements. When teams work in sprints, they define tasks and link them to requirements. To gain insight into a rollup of requirements across teams, program managers link requirements to a feature. Blocking issues are tracked using issues. The essential flow for getting started is as shown.

To get started using Scrum or Kanban tools, see Get started with Agile tools to plan and track work. A work item is a database record that contains the definition, assignment, priority, and state of work. Work item types define the template of fields, workflow, and form for each type.

Work items can be linked to each other to support tracking dependencies, roll up of work, and reports. You can use work item queries to list work items based on their type, such as change requests, bugs, tasks, and requirements. New projects no longer define a default set of Shared Queries at the time of project creation.

The definitions for Shared Queries have been removed from the process template. For on-premises deployments, you can add them to a custom process template as described in Add work item queries to a process template. Descriptions of predefined queries are listed later in this article. You can view and run queries from the web portal or from the Team Explorer plug-in to Visual Studio.

You can modify a query using the query editor to apply different filter criteria. Also, you can add queries to team dashboards. If you are new to Azure Boards, work tracking, and shared queries, review these tips to learn how you can manage work more effectively:. You can continue to use Microsoft Excel.

Also, several charts are automatically built based on the Agile tools you use. These charts display within the web portal. To get started, you can open a shared query and create a chart based on your tracking interests. Chart types include status—pie, bar, column, stacked bar, and pivot—and trend—stacked area, line, and area—charts. The Analytics Service can answer quantitative questions about the past or present state of your projects. You can add Analytics widgets to a dashboard or use Power BI to create charts and reports.

To learn more, see What is the Analytics Service? For these reports to be useful, teams must do certain activities , such as define build processes, link work items, and update status or remaining work. If you need to add reporting services or update reports to the latest versions, see Add reports to a project. You can access Agile process dashboards displayed through SharePoint.

These dashboards display project data, support investigation tasks, and help teams to complete common tasks quickly. These dashboards support the display of web access parts for listing work items and reports that were built in the Analysis Services cube. To use SharePoint dashboards , your project must have a project portal configured and the project portal must point to a SharePoint site. Before you start tracking work, you must have a project.

To create one, see Create a project. As updates are made to the CMMI process template, the version number is updated. The following table provides a mapping of the versioning applied as updates are made to the Azure DevOps on-premises process templates. For Azure Boards, the latest version is always used. Starting with TFS , the version element was added to the process template to support versioning of the templates.

This element specifies a major and minor version. Prior to this change, the version was specified within the process template name. For a summary of updates made to process templates, see Changes made to process templates.