CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
27 March 2007
Company News
PTC® Achieves Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®) Level 2 For Pro/ENGINEER®
PTC announced that the Pro/ENGINEER Product Development and Quality Assurance organization has been appraised as having met the requirements of the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 2. PTC is the first vendor to achieve this rating for a 2D or 3D CAD solution. This achievement demonstrates PTC's ongoing commitment to high quality product and the use of best practices for process management and software development.
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon University. CMMI ratings assist customers in selecting reliable and low-risk suppliers of software products and services.
The Level 2 rating was achieved using an independent Software Capability Evaluation (SCE) involving extensive review and analysis of PTC's software development and project management processes. The PTC evaluation was performed by an SEI-authorized lead evaluator from Software Technology Transition (STT), a software process improvement consulting firm, using the Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement.
According to SEI documentation, the characteristics of an organization operating at a Level 2 rating include the following:
• Customer requirements are managed and processes are planned, performed, measured, and controlled.
• Projects are performed and managed according to their documented plans . Requirements, processes, work products, and services are managed. The status of the work products and the delivery of services are visible to management at defined points.
• Commitments are established among relevant stakeholders and are revised as needed. Work products are reviewed with stakeholders and are controlled. The work products and services satisfy their specified requirements, standards, and objectives.
"The CMMI Level 2 rating for Pro/ENGINEER highlights PTC's ongoing commitment to providing customers with quality products. These efforts are a key component of a broader quality management system which is designed to assure the integrity of our own software development process," said Rich Butler, divisional vice president, R&D operations, PTC. "PTC is committed to continuously improving our own internal processes, ultimately translating into improved software quality for our customers."
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