CMC's Systems Integration Business Unit of Northern Region has been assessed at SEI CMM Level 5.

CMC Ltd. announced that its Systems Integration Business Unit of the Northern Region has been assessed at SEI-CMM Level 5, the highest level of Capability Maturity Model (CMM) of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, US.

The assessment scope included the locations of Delhi, Lucknow, Bhopal, Indore and Raipur. Having achieved this milestone, all CMC's regional software operations in the country have achieved CMM certifications with the Western, Southern and Northern Region assessed at SEI-CMM Level 5 and the Eastern Region assessed at SEI-CMM Level 4.

With these achievements, CMC continues its quality journey towards improved software development and services. CMC's managing director and CEO, R. Ramanan, said, "The recognition mirrors the company's endeavors to excel in the key process areas to achieve a quality management system. This has enabled us to improve customer focus and sustain the process improvement initiatives by explicitly linking them to business goals."

This is the first assessment in CMC where the SCAMPI methodology was adopted for CMM. SCAMPI methodology is more rigorous and extensive as compared to the normal CBA-IPI methodology.

All the goals covering key process areas defined by SEI-CMM for each level, Repeatable-L2, Defined-L3, Managed-L4 and Optimised-L5 for continuous process improvement met the fully satisfied criteria.

SEI-CMM is the industry standard for assessing software development processes. Assessments range from levels 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest.