CMMI - Does Your Supplier Make the Grade? 

Outsourcing work to offshore organizations has become the latest arsenal in software development over the last seven to eight years.  The strongest drivers to outsourcing focus on driving down costs, increasing productivity, reducing time to market, and providing a flexible resource pool.

In the outsourcing selection decision, many organizations use the candidate suppliers’ Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI) maturity level as one of the decision-making criteria. Suppliers want to maximize their chances of winning business from companies that are pursuing offshore outsourcing services.  Since CMMI maturity level ratings serve as a differentiator, these organizations want to position themselves among the…