Riga, Latvia — Exigen Group, a business process solutions company, today announced it has achieved one of the highest ratings possible of a company's software development capabilities, a Level 4 in the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMM). The results underscore Exigen's commitment to developing quality software products that adhere to global standards. The Software Capability Maturity Model evaluation was carried out by European Software Institute (ESI).
Rated among only 100 Level 4 organizations worldwide (according to SEI as of September 2003), the SW-CMM is widely regarded as the best means to measure the quality and maturity of an organization's software development and maintenance processes and their integration into management processes. The evaluation covered all of Exigen's functional areas at its Riga-based outsourcing development center.
Lead Assessor Mr. Inigo Garro of ESI commented, "This CMM Level 4 rating is attributed to the vision and leadership of the senior management team of Exigen and the professional and technical excellence of its associates. Exigen has demonstrated professionalism and a commitment to improvement and excellence. Achieving the CMM Level 4 now puts Exigen in the top ranks among its competitors in this industry and region."
"This is a significant milestone for Exigen – one that proves our continuous efforts to enhance the quality of our development processes as we now set the stage to achieve Level 5," stated Guntis Urtans, general director of Exigen in Latvia. "The real benefit is to our customers, who depend on the quality of our work and now have the added confidence of knowing that our software processes are among the best in the world."
The Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM or SW-CMM) is a model for judging the maturity of the software processes of an organization and for identifying the key practices that are required to increase the maturity of these processes. CMM describes the principles and practices underlying software process maturity, and helps software organizations improve the maturity of their software processes. Using this model, informal processes are transformed to mature, disciplined software processes.
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) began developing a process maturity framework in 1986 that would assist organizations in improving their software processes. This effort was driven primarily by a request to provide the federal government with a method for assessing the capability of their software contractors.
Using knowledge acquired from assessments of organization software processes and feedback from both government agencies and industry organizations, an improved version of the process maturity framework, the Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM), was produced.
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