Monday, July 16, 2012

Continual Improvent Process

The continual improvement process is almost the most important concept that every methodology must define, and that should be always implement in any organization.

If we take a look at most significant methodologies, we can see this process area definition:
  • ITIIL V3
  • CMMI - Dev - 1.3
  • TMMI
Continual Improvement Processes aimed to be used not in an initial application of any of these methodologies, but in a later step, and this causes several miss-performance situations in organizations:
  • Organizations that are making an effort in methodology improvement don't have a continuous improvement process included on their process map.
  • After implementation of the methodology in the organization there are no metrics to determine if performance is increasing or not.
  • Basic diagnostic is not determine: is the methodology in my organization being used?
To avoid those situations any implementation of any methodology must define a set of processes, with almost the following matters:
  • A set of processes not in paper, but with a computer based solution that support then.
  • A set of basic metrics that measure how are  being used processes.
  • A set of performance indicators to determine if throughput is increasing or not.
  • A set of reports that inform the methodology leader how everything is going on.
  • the organization must know how to inform or propose improvement  to methodology.



1 comment:

  1. That's true. Usually, when you deploy a methodology inside an Organization, you haven't got any metrics for measuring your improvement. Perhaps, it is real because if you think one step before, when you are defining the process, Organization didn´t know anything about themselves.

    That's a big problem. If you don't know anything about yourself, you don't know where you can improve. It pushed you study their bussines proccess to undertand it and improve, but you weren't measuring their situation. But you miss the data for evaluate how is going on at that moment.

    How can you constrast after your deploy? Maybe , the fisrt step of each deployment must be define metrics and calculate these ones for know what is the situation before you work there. It will be helpful for evaluate your work in cost and time terms.

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