PMI and Capability Maturity Model
Project Management Initiative and Capability Maturity Model
Today, hundreds of companies are investing time and resources into what the technology industry terms its best practices. Things like SDLC, CMMI certification, SEPG and a PMO. Yet the promise of better, faster and cheaper IT solutions continues to elude these organizations. And IT projects eat up more time and more money than ever before.
The fact is, despite massive investments in process improvement and tools, 70 percent of IT projects still fail to meet time, cost and quality objectives. Why? Because even though these best practices aren’t inherently bad, they consistently fail in three critical ways:
- They promote completeness at the beginning of the project and testing at the end.
- They focus on optimizing particular practices within the development process rather than incrementally improving the end-to-end process.
- They prescribe governance models without establishing disciplines within the software construction space.
So how is Pillar able to deliver extraordinary results for our customers while other IT projects continue to fail? Because our practices are anything but ordinary.
Rather than rely on high-level governance processes alone, Pillar’s Speed 2 Value (S2V) approach delivers better, faster and cheaper results because of the test-driven software construction discipline that’s at the very core of everything we do. Six Sigma will tell you it’s cheaper and faster to prevent a defect from occurring in the first place than to find it and fix it somewhere down the road. Test-first design takes defects out of the equation from step one, while also allowing businesses to change quickly without fear of regression.
What’s more, because the ultimate measure of Speed 2 Value (S2V) is the value it produces for your business in dollars realized, Pillar’s Speed 2 Value (S2V) approach focuses on the end-to-end financial throughput of your IT function, not just creating local optima.
True, Speed 2 Value (S2V) is probably unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.
Just wait till you see the results.
