• "Jeff really knows his stuff! He made the class interesting and practical, full of real-life tips for implementation and success."

    CMMI Class Attendee

  • "Having been through a really brutal and misguided appraisal prior to working with Broadsword, it's refreshing to see optimism back in our organization, and I give them most of the credit."

    SEPG Manager, Johnson Controls Automotive Experience

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About Us

About Us.  We’re about You.

Broadsword offers so much more than  CMMI Appraisals and Training.  Our consultants provide an environment for you to be successful, learn, and be part of a making a great company even better. This Web site puts you at the center of the conversation.

We don’t force-fit you into the CMMI.  To us, CMMI is a tool to help make your company great that works well with both traditional and agile methods like Scrum. We learn about your company, your methods, and your culture and use the CMMI to help you make it even stronger and more productive.

Over the years, we have watched our agileCMMI methodology develop into a well-defined, mature method for continuous improvement, embraced by technology organizations worldwide.  What you see here is only a small part of what we do.

Learn more by visiting our blog and be sure to come hear us speak at conferences, where the best and the brightest from our community come together to share ideas and best practices.

We will accommodate your most difficult scheduling constraints and timelines. Where other firms say they can’t, we know we can.

See for yourself what other companies are saying about us.  We are a licensed SEI Partner certified to deliver all CMMI services.

We invite you to join the movement.  Connect with Broadsword, and let’s get on the Path to Greatness together.

Jeff Dalton

CMMI, CMMI Appraiser, CMMi Appraisals, CMMI Consulting, CMMI Consultants, CMMI Training Jeff is Broadsword’s President, Certified Lead Appraiser, CMMI Instructor, ScrumMaster and author of “agileCMMI,” Broadsword’s leading methodology for incremental and iterative process improvement. He is co-Chair of the SEI’s Partner Advisory Board and President of the Great Lakes Software Process Improvement Network (GL-SPIN).  In 2008 he coined the term Process Debt to describe the crushing, over-bearing processes too many companies employ to achieve a CMMI rating.  In 2009 he was awarded the prestigious Software Engineering Institute’s SEI Member Award for Outstanding Representative for is work uniting the Agile and CMMI communities together through his popular blog “Ask the CMMI Appraiser.” He holds degrees in Music and Computer Science and builds experimental airplanes in his spare time.  You can reach Jeff at appraiser@broadswordsolutions.com.

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