Why we Borland are investing in CMMi

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Why we (Borland) are investing in CMMi

• Presented by CJ Human, European Product Line
  Manager

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Agenda

• Borlands acquisition of CMMi capability
  (TeraQuest)
• Our Mission where CMMi fits in
• Why acquire TeraQuest?
• Our CMMi goals
• Future plans (external internal)
• CMMi roll-out integration
• Ensuring success with CMMi
• Questions Answers

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Abstract overview

• Abstract Taking the plunge and actually putting
  down cold hard cash on what is essentially a
  compilation of great ideas, takes courage. In
  this session, Corné will discuss
• the business reasons behind Borland's recent
  acquisition of TerraQuest, a world leader in CMMi
  based consultancy and certification.
• He will explore the business goals behind this
  move and provide a brief overview of our future
  plans relating to CMMi both internally and
  externally.
• As an organisation primarily involved in helping
  it's customers achieve their software delivery
  goals, the shoe is now indeed on the other foot.
  The question is, why should we do this to
  ourselves?
• Is it really worth it?
• Better still, what are we doing to ensure it's
  worth it?

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Maximizing the Business Value of Software

• Its not just about doing it faster
• Its about doing it better
• Its not just about getting the software done
• Its about getting it deployed used
• Its not just about doing software right
• Its about doing the right software

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Borlands Vision

• Continue to build software for software people
• Continue to serve the needs of software creators
• Broaden our outreach to help other software
  people

We call this vision Software Delivery Optimization
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Borland Says

• If youre in business, YOURE IN SOFTWARE".
• Turn off the bits, turn off the lights.
• Software MUST become a core competency.
• Youve got to Get Good At Software.

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Getting Good at Software translates into
Software Delivery Optimization
ReduceSpend
Maximize Opportunity
Ensure Quality
AccelerateDelivery
MitigateRisk
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The Borland Mission
Software Delivery Optimization The
transformation of software development to an
accelerated, yet disciplined approach that aligns
teams, technology and process to maximize the
business value of software.
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How CMMi fits into our strategy

• Software delivery as a managed business process
• CMMi adds process expertise to Borlands
  products, which provide customers with a complete
  solution for optimizing cost performance,
  quality, time-to-market and productivity.
• Service Organisations such as TeraQuest brings
  process-focused intellectual property, including
  courses, knowledge bases and methods that
  directly support Borlands current and future
  product offerings.
• How is this significant to our customers?
• The acquisition of TeraQuest provides Borland and
  TeraQuest customers with integrated technology
  and process solutions that span executive to
  individual developer roles.
• An integrated solution that aligns the people,
  processes, and technologies within the software
  lifecycle can help customers address the cultural
  changes required to migrate software development
  to a more managed business process.

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Unique value Competitive differentiator

• Will CMMi help us to compete better?
• Yes! TeraQuests proven success in helping
  enterprises improve their software processes will
  be a significant differentiator for Borland, a
  company already well known for its technical
  excellence and customer-driven agenda.
• TeraQuests process improvement services can
  integrate immediately with Borlands ALM suite to
  help IT executives realize the full potential of
  process and technology improvement investments.

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Who is TeraQuest

• 25 Person Global Process CMM Consultancy
• Team includes 2 co-authors of CMM Bill Curtis
  Charlie Weber and 11 SEI Certified Lead Assessors
  2nd largest concentration worldwide. Average
  consultant with 20 years of experience
• Appraisal Services
• Business Process
• Application Development
• Advisory Services
• Quick-starts
• Process improvement
• Ongoing implementation
• Education Services
• 30 Courses
• Workshops on process management
• Extensive Process CMM IP
• Rich catalog of IP in a well structured Process
  Asset Library (PAL) includes 30 courses and
  workshops

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Borland TeraQuest Strategic Alignment

• TeraQuest adds process consulting solutions to
  Borlands best of breed ALM technologies to
  accelerate business value capture
• Key benefits to BORL include
• Addition of recognized industry leaders in the
  CMM and process consulting space including the
  co-author of the CMM, Bill Curtis the co-author
  of CMMI SW-CMM, Charlie Weber
• Ability to deliver CMM Process Assessment and
  implementation services with a team of SEI
  Certified Lead Assessors that is larger than any
  other software company in the world have
  delivered 220 assessments in 15 countries
• Incorporation of a rich library of IP and Process
  related assets that include a catalog of 30
  courses and workshops which will significantly
  enhance Borland University and Borland Accelerate
• Strategic Alliance with Gartner for over 3½ years
• Key benefits to TeraQuest include
• A broad customer platform to extend its reach
  worldwide ability to leverage over 8,000
  paying maintenance customers and 3M developers
  to spread the process message
• Ability to provide end to end solutions to
  process consulting recommendations by including
  best of breed technology
• Provides the necessary resources to extend and
  enhance strategic growth areas such as the
  Business Maturity Model, Measurements, Agile
  Maturity Model

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Enhancing The Services Stack
The TeraQuest team and IP rapidly accelerate the
growing number of resources and expertise in the
process offering and will dramatically enhance
Borland University Borland Accelerate content
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Rollout Strategies

• Internal Webinars on key topics
• Sales Approach
• CMMI 101 Training
• Improvement Roadmap/Service Bundles
• Marketing is managing awareness events content
• Executive Breakfasts
• Public Webinars
• Whitepaper creation
• New Presentations Recorded Sessions for public
  download
• Services Portal (services.borland.com) updated
  with TQ Process content in Q105
• Source of information for existing customers

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Integration plans

• TeraQuests seasoned consultants will become part
  of Borlands new Process Optimization Practice.
• TeraQuests process asset library will be
  incorporated into Borlands Accelerate knowledge
  base and will immediately add 30 new offerings
  to the Borland University catalog.
• TeraQuest executives will also work closely with
  Borlands worldwide services and product
  development teams to enhance the process
  component of Borlands future products.
• Creation of Chief Process Officer position.

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A Process Optimization Practice

• A newly created group within our Professional
  Services Org.
• The Process Optimization Practice is focused on
  helping clients make software delivery a managed
  process.
• Using CMMI, the new practice will help customers
  transform their organizations processes to
  address critical business needs that will help
  optimize cost, schedule, quality and customer
  satisfaction.
• Also focused on addressing our internal need for
  Process Optimization
• By empowering the POP, we are ensuring CMMi
  success

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Technology Agnostics

• CMMI-based process appraisals should be
  technology agnostic, how will Borland retain
  objectivity?
• Borland intends to ensure that the new Process
  Optimization Practice remains independent and
  objective in its assessments and recommendations,
  and focused on providing customers value-driven
  solutions.
• All appraisers are bound by a code of conduct
  with the Software Engineering Institute.
• Borlands Process Optimization services will
  continue to support customers that have
  multi-vendor tool environments much like it
  supports multi-platform environments and a
  variety of development processes.

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Ensuring success with CMMi

• Success (or not!) will depend on
• Management participation
• People Empowerment
• Understanding the Business Drivers
• Involvement in Process review approval
• Measuring the Process, not the people
• Implement Measures, not Targets
• Automate at every opportunity
• Avoid Bureaucracy at every opportunity
• Informal Formal Training
• Communicating the Whats in it for me? factors

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Open QA

• Questions??

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