Process Assessment will provide an objective evaluation of the current status of the processes and practices within your organisation and help you to answer the following questions:

• Where are we today?
• Where do we want to be?
• How do we get there?

Assessments can be carried out against a number of frameworks including the CMMI, ISO9001 and SPICE.

When initiating an improvement programme for the first time, an organisation will benefit from performing a complete assessment, where most of your main processes are evaluated, for example, engineering, management, support and organisation.

Later on, a focused assessment performed on a specified subset of processes, can be sufficient either to confirm results of the improvement actions or to plan new improvements. Additionally a focused assessment can be performed when improvement goals and scope are clear and the organisation has matured to a higher level with process improvement. We suggest you repeat a complete assessment at least every two years to monitor evolution of all processes.