2012 saw more CMMI Appraisals than any previous years

Dear Readers,

According to the CMMI Institute's 2013 CMMI Profile Reports, there were more appraisals conducted in 2013 than in any other previous year.  This would indicate that, far from "not being relevant" as is sometimes claimed in the tech media,  the CMMI is increasing in popularity - even in a down economy.    I've been writing about this for some time since the best time to turn to proven optimization models is in a down economy.  With the new adopters being primary smaller organizations (see two posts below), we're seeing more new activity than ever before.  Here's the data:

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Jeff Dalton is a Certified SCAMPI Lead Appraiser, Certified CMMI Instructor, ScrumMaster, author, and consultant with years of real-world experience with the CMMI in all types of organizations. Jeff pioneered agileCMMI, the leading methodology for incremental and iterative process improvement. He has taught thousands of students in CMMI trainings and has received an aggregate satisfaction score of 4.97 out of 5 from his students.

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Small Organizations continue to dominate CMMI adoption

According the CMMI Institute's latest "CMMI Maturity Profile Report," small organizations with less than 500 employees are dominating the market with CMMI Adoption.  The most interesting piece here is that almost HALF of all organizations adopting CMMI are less than 100 people!  I've written about this in the past when I wrote about how the CMMI is more beneficial for small, agile organizations than for large ones.

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