SINGULARITY ACHIEVES TOP INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATION - SOFTWARE VENDOR CELEBRATES CMMI LEVEL 3
Released on: August 18, 2008, 4:08 am
Press Release Author: Emma McGinley
Industry: Software
Press Release Summary: Singularity, the Business Process Management software vendor, today announced that it has been successfully appraised at level 3 under the software industry's most respected standard, the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). CMMI is the international 'gold standard' for process excellence in software engineering. Singularity's certification is for a SCAMPI Level 3 assessment against the CMMI maturity model staged representation v1.2. The company is the only one in its market sector to have achieved this level of accreditation. The achievement is particularly notable because it included assessment of the company's in-house ASAP methodology which is based on the latest 'Agile' techniques. The appraisal was won by Singularity's Hyderabad Software Development Centre. The processes that were assessed are used in all of Singularity's software development centers worldwide. Today's announcement follows on from the previous level 2 CMMI accreditation won by the company's worldwide software development centers in 2006.
Press Release Body: Hyderabad, 18 August 2008 Singularity, the Business Process Management software vendor, today announced that it has been successfully appraised at level 3 under the software industry's most respected standard, the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). CMMI is the international 'gold standard' for process excellence in software engineering. Singularity's certification is for a SCAMPI Level 3 assessment against the CMMI maturity model staged representation v1.2. The company is the only one in its market sector to have achieved this level of accreditation. The achievement is particularly notable because it included assessment of the company's in-house ASAP methodology which is based on the latest 'Agile' techniques. The appraisal was won by Singularity's Hyderabad Software Development Centre. The processes that were assessed are used in all of Singularity's software development centers worldwide. Today's announcement follows on from the previous level 2 CMMI accreditation won by the company's worldwide software development centers in 2006. "This accreditation recognizes our ASAP processes as being best in class at a global level", said Sean Canavan, Singularity Director of Process Improvement. "It's a huge achievement and a great reflection on our people in Hyderabad". "We're delighted with the certification" said Srinivas Reddy, head of Singularity's Hyderabad subsidiary. "It recognizes the work and dedication to process excellence of the Hyderabad team and of the company as a whole". To obtain CMMI Level 3 Singularity formed teams of experts familiar both with the company's internal software development processes and the requirements of the CMMi model. These teams used the ASAP approach to prioritize, select and reengineer each process in a series of iterations, with lessons from one iteration being carried over to the next. This incremental approach reduced the time to standardize on improved processes and ensured easier adoption of the new processes by staff. Processes were modeled and partially or fully automated using Singularity's Business Process Management system, the Singularity Process Platform. Some of the processes that helped win the certification included the Project On-boarding process, which made it easier for measures of productivity and utilization to be captured throughout the project lifecycle, enabling better analysis and decision making. The automated system used for Project On-boarding was developed using the Singularity Process Platform, and was showcased at the Best Practices Session of the Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) in Hyderabad.
About Singularity Singularity is a global leader in Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow Software, with 220 staff and offices in Derry, Belfast, New York, London, Singapore and Hyderabad. Singularity's award-winning BPM platform helps our customers automate complex business processes, threading human and system activities seamlessly together to achieve greater efficiency and agility. Singularity also provides a range of pre-built solutions the Telecommunications, Government and Capital Markets sectors. For more information, please visit http://www.singularity.us.com or http://www.singularity.co.uk. Singularity's CMMI appraisal is listed on http://sas.sei.cmu.edu/pars/pars.aspx
About CMMi The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMi) from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University promotes organizational maturity by helping organizations improve quality, timeliness and predictability of their software development processes, as well as equipment and developed systems. The CMMiŽ appraisal offers an internationally respected assessment method via which a company's maturity level and reliability may be assessed, based on a list of objectives to be attained and practices to be implemented per business process. To learn more about CMMI visit http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/general/index.html.
Web Site: http://www.singularity.co.uk
Contact Details: For further press information please contact Emma McGinley at Singularity Email: emma.mcginley@singularity.co.uk, or telephone: + 44 28 7126 7767
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