From the CMM authentication to see the misunderstanding of authentication

From the current development of China's software industry, CMM has always been a very hot topic, in order to increase their comprehensive competitiveness, to meet the challenges from the global software enterprises after the accession to the WTO, the domestic software companies have passed the CMM certification as the long-term goal of enterprises, the domestic media has also given great attention, In just a few months, the training and Enterprise Forum on CMM throughout the country, the report on the CMM also frequently found in the newspaper!

For Chinese software companies, CMM is not only a passport of the international market, but also the important significance is that, in the process of meeting CMM level standard, through the application of software engineering method, it can improve the quality and enhance the international competitiveness of software enterprises and software products, and enter the international software market. The CMM will also change the way we have been groping in the dark, making our software development rule-based.

In article 17th of a number of policies to encourage the development of software industry and integrated circuit industry, which was promulgated shortly before the country, it has been made clear that "software export-oriented enterprises will be encouraged to certify through GB/T19000 ISO9000 Series Quality Assurance System certification and CMM (Capability Maturity Model), Its certification costs are properly supported through the Central Foreign Trade Development Fund.

What exactly is the CMM? What causes companies to be so concerned about CMM? Let's get to the CMM first, CMM is a software maturity model developed by the professional organization-Carnegie Mellon University of Engineering (SEI), which is currently the most popular and practical software production process standard and software enterprise Maturity level certification standard, and is a model framework rather than a standard. In form, the CMM is divided into 5 levels (the 1th level is the lowest and the 5th is the highest), and the CMM provides a framework to organize the evolutionary steps of software process improvement into 5 maturity levels, laying a step-by-step basis for continuous process improvement. These 5 maturity levels define an orderly scale for measuring the maturity of an organization's software processes and evaluating their software process capabilities, which also help organize themselves to prioritize their improvement efforts. Each level contains a number of key domains, and the evaluator evaluates the implementation of these key domains and their practices for the application enterprise.

The CMM method makes the software development quality guaranteed and reduces the development cost. India's software companies began to develop in strict accordance with international standards of operation, the implementation of CMM, in the process of growing themselves. Chinese enterprises that try to enter the international software market are more and more aware of the importance of CMM to the development of overseas markets, but the fact is: many enterprises know CMM certification, but there are many doubts about how to implement software process improvement based on CMM quickly. It is a bottleneck that puzzles the decision maker, leader and implementation of software enterprises, and hinders the entry of Chinese software enterprises into the international market. Therefore, because CMM is the internationally recognized software industry evaluation standard, the certification of CMM is particularly important for software development organizations which are oriented to the export of the softwares. CMM two or three-level certification of software development agencies, in the software industry will have a higher visibility, and other software development agencies in the competition in product promotion, software Order acquisition will have a greater advantage. At the seminar, some software experts put forward: the improvement of software engineering and access to the international market all require long-term efforts, the use of CMM model is not the only solution, but it is undeniable that it is China's software and international standards and advanced level of the fast track, is to enter the international market a bridge.

As we have seen above, the implementation of CMM is very important to the development of software, but what is the status quo of domestic enterprises? From the current understanding of CMM in domestic enterprises, most enterprises have entered such a misunderstanding, the CMM is a standard, the enterprise as long as the certification, enterprise software development level will be improved, and to pass the certification, as long as you can get the certification certificate on it, And never care about the enterprise real quality management level and ability to improve, in fact, in the official CMM information and documents, never appeared "certification" of the words, but our enterprises have gone into such a misunderstanding.

Through the CMM, through the other domestic enterprises, to look at the situation of the whole industry. Every year, it enterprise departments have to spend a lot of effort to pass a variety of certification or assessment, each year through a series of certification, such as ISO140001 environmental protection system certification, ISO9000 Series Quality system certification, as well as High-tech enterprise certification; As for the product of the * * * Editor Selection Award, A variety of national excellent product certification, etc. as far as we personally, what Microsoft MCSE,CICSO CCNACCNE,ORACLE,IBM certification ... Wait a minute. We do not deny the positive significance of these certifications, these different certification to some extent to promote the development of enterprises and product quality improvement, to our personal or company's ability to bring about promotion, but the excessive enthusiasm of the pursuit of certification also led to a certain negative effect, we are not also to reflect on the certification, Rating is not really bring us the ability and quality of improvement, we have not already walked into such a misunderstanding?

For the enterprise, to a certain extent, the certification to enhance the image of the enterprise also improve the brand awareness of the enterprise, to a certain extent also we improve the market share of the prerequisite, but also grow our "certification complex", blindly to pursue certification and obtain certificates. Some experts pointed out that many domestic enterprises have been plunged into a very deep misunderstanding of the certification, it is learned that in a seminar on a certification, the enterprise to the certification expert questions, the experts asked such a question: "Why your problem is all focused on how to pass the assessment to obtain certification, Rather than how to make good use of evaluation to enhance the level of the enterprise? "Does the expert's rhetorical question make sense?" Is our enterprise too naïve, this expert's rhetorical question can't arouse our ponder? We are through these series of standards when the most important perhaps not to obtain what certification, but through the implementation of certification to make our enterprise's ability to really improve, this is the true meaning of certification!

We have participated in the college entrance examination, deeply understand China's exam-oriented education to bring us harm, is not our certification is also the enterprise inside the exam-oriented education? The community is aware of the harm of exam-oriented education, are constantly trying to improve, we can not understand the negative effects of certification to us?

Of course, I do not want to completely deny these certification, we can understand that, certification as we enter the market this stadium tickets, we enter the market, we need these certification, but the real decision whether we can win the gold medal is our own strength and scale! Sincerely we hope to have some more tickets, but we would like to get some more gold medals! More than a rational, more than a mature, less impetuous! After all, the market will not sympathize with the weak!