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There are two strands to this work:
- Development of the TI Assessment Framework
- Review of benefits of CMMI approach to TI
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Development of the TI Assessment Framework |
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Aim
The aim of this work is to expand the TI assessment framework, increasing the breadth, depth and mapping to existing documentation, systems and decision points. This will provide a whole system whole life reference framework for planning and managing Technology Insertion programmes. |
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HVR Consulting will lead this work package, building on all TI MPA work undertaken to date, in particular the TI Assessment Framework WP 1.2.2 and the TI Processes and Initiatives WP 1.4.1 work undertaken as part of the TI MPA Acceleration Study. The work will proceed along two lines. Firstly, to develop the current framework to include other aspects of stakeholder activities and secondly, to expand the guidance to include more detailed information about how to achieve the outcomes recommended. To increase this level of fidelity and detail, stakeholder involvement in the form of workshops will be held to gain real user feedback and specialist knowledge in the relevant fields of expertise.
As a parallel exercise, the development of the framework will also address its own position within the acquisition cycle and existing assessment documentation and procurement practices to ensure that the framework becomes fully integrated into existing processes. This integration will ensure that the framework links to the process of technology through the acquisition cycle and that it is linked to decision points within the equipment procurement cycle. HVR proposes to take a whole life whole system approach and thus to also look at the contracting/commercial issues associated with the procurement cycle. This will also ensure that stakeholder involvement is engaged in looking at the utility of an assessment framework incorporating these issues. Due regard will be given to existing work and that currently being undertaken. Examples include the DPA Future Business Group work on Technology Management and the recent National Defence Industries Council Capability Driven Technology Roadmapping study. This work will be taken account of and where relevant incorporated into the new framework. |
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Outcome
The deliverable will be a detailed whole system whole life reference framework for planning and managing Technology Insertion programmes. This will be shared with the stakeholder community through the TI MPA website and through either the AMS or as a Defence Standard depending on stakeholder feedback and availability of resource. |
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Review of the Benefits of a CMMI Approach to TI |
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Aim
The aim of this study is to illustrate the applicability of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) approach to the management of complex UK technology programmes, with the potential to impact on time, cost and performance. This work will also assess the potential of the CMMI as a vehicle to pull knowledge generated within the TI MPA into current through-life processes. |
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HVR Consulting will lead this work package and will assess the potential of the CMMI approach to TI.
Developed by SEI Carnegie Mellon University and jointly sponsored by the US DoD and the National Defence Industrial Association, CMMI is a comprehensive generic technique for managing complex technology programmes. It enables related processes, stakeholders and issues to be combined into a single integrated maturity model that enables better management and tracking of technology programmes across a number of technical, management and commercial disciplines.
Applying the CMMI approach to the management of complex UK technology programmes could provide time, cost and performance improvements as well as supporting the pull through into current through-life processes of knowledge generated within the TI Assessment Framework and the wider TI MPA. Existing TI MPA documentation, processes and approaches could be mapped to provide a coherent user-friendly framework, providing a complete roadmap for the transition of technology and systems from stakeholder to stakeholder through an "ownership" cycle.
This work has linkage to the DPA Stocktake Project Assurance initiative.
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Outcome
The outcome will be an understanding of the applicability of CMMI to TI. It will take the form of a report detailing the potential for the CMMI approach to the management of complex UK technology programmes and will be shared with the stakeholder community through the TI MPA website. |
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